354 xcn. scROPHUi-ARiACEtf: (hemsley and skan). [Sibthorpia, 



axillary, solitary or fasciculate, ebracteate. Flowers yellow, yellow- 

 rose, red or purple. 



Species 6, also in Europe, India, Central and South America. 



1. S. europaea, Linn.,va,z. africana, Hoolc.f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 vii. 208. A more or less pilose very slender prostrate creeping herb, 

 often rooting at the nodes; stems up to 9 in. long. Leaves suborbicular, 

 2-9 lin. in diam., with numerous (often 15-20) very small crenate 

 teeth ; petiole J-l| in. long. Peduncles solitary, 1-3 lin. long. Calyx 

 about 1 lin. long, 4- or 5-lobed, conspicuously 4- or 5-nerved ; lobes 

 about ^ lin. long, ovate, scarcely acute. Corolla yellow or sometimes 

 purple, usually 54obed, about 1 lin. long. Stamens usually 4, included. 

 Capsule broadly obovate, pilose at the apex, slightly emarginate, 

 scarcely as long as the calyx. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 379, 

 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 358. S. qfriccina, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. G31 ; Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. x. 428 ; A. Rich. Tent. El. Abyss, ii. 122. Disandra africana^ 

 Linn. Syst. ed. Reich, ii. 137. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1963 ! 

 Fernando Po, 7500 ft., Mann, 1455 ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Mount Bachit, about 13,000 ft., Schimpei; 

 1310! 



BXozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro; above Mamba, 8500 ft., 

 Volkem, 785 ! 



Also in the Azores, Balearic Isles, Greece and Crete. 



Var. glabra, Skan. Plant quite glabrous. 



Nile laand. Uganda: Buwenzori ; Butanuka, Scott- Elliot, 78-48 ! 



S. europcea is found in Western Europe, Madeira, Mexico and Peru. 



34. SCOPARIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 959. 



Calyx 4- or 5-partite ; segments ovate or lanceolate, imbricate. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-fid, densely bearded at the throat ; lobes imbricate, 

 obtuse, subequal. Stamens 4, subequal ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 subsagittate, with parallel or divergent cells. Style slightly clavate at 

 the apex ; stigma truncate or emarginate. Capsule globose or ovoid, 

 septicidal ; valves entire, membranous. Seeds numerous, obovoid, 

 angular, scrobiculate. — Glabrous or pilose very much branched herbs or 

 small shrubs. Leaves opposite or verticillate, quite entire or dentate, 

 punctate. Peduncles axillary, commonly in pairs, ebracteate. Flowers 

 rather small, white, yellow or pale blue. 



Species 6, natives of Tropical America, 1 dispersed throughout nearly all 

 tropical countries. 



1. S. dulcis, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 116. An erect slender 

 much-branched undershrub 1-3 ft. high, glabrous or minutely hairy 

 chiefly at the nodes ; stem and branches obscurely angular. 

 Leaves commonly ternate, sometimes in whorls of more than 3 or 

 opposite, elliptic -lanceolate or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, ^-lg i n - 



