Scoparia.] xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). 355 



long, 1—5 lin. broad, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base 

 into a short petiole, more or less distinctly serrate above the middle, 

 densely punctate. Flowers solitary or geminate in the axils of 

 the leaves, often forming many-flowered raceme-like inflorescences ; 

 peduncles 2-3 lin. long, very slender. Calyx about 1 lin. long, densely 

 covered outside with sessile glands ; segments 4, ovate, obtuse, sparingly 

 ciliate, 3-5-nerved. Corolla 1|- lin. long, white. Capsule ovoid, 1-1|- 

 lin. long. — Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 86, t. 115 ; Schumach. &, Thonn. Beskr. 

 Guin. PI. 79 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 431 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. 121 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 144 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 358 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 766 ; Durand in Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxiii. 115: Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 

 i. 211; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 45 and 

 Reliq. Dewevr. 170; De Wild. Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 74; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 289. S. ternata, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. 31. Capraria 

 dulcis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 459. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram 1 Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 5134 ! Vogeh 

 20! Welwitsch, 5921 ! Gold Coast: Krobo plains, Johnson, 557 ! Liberia; Grand 

 Bassa, T'ogel, 47 ! Monrovia, Whyte ! Lagos, Dawodu, 6 ! Ogbomoshaw, Barter, 

 3405 ! Togo : near Lome, WarnecJce, 377 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter 

 1174 ! Southern Nigeria: Nun River, Vogel, 16 ! Old Calabar, Holland, 17 ! 98 ! 

 Cameroons : Eipinde, Zenker, 862 ! Johann-Albreehtshohe, Staudt, 598 ! 



Wile land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, iii. 40 ! River Jur, Schwein- 

 furth, 1578 ! 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller. Rolas Island, Quintas. 

 Princes Island, Welwitsch, 5922 ! Lower . Congo, Cabra • near Leopold ville, 

 GiUet ; Boma, Dewevre. Angola: various localities, Welwitsch, 5899! 5915! 

 5919, 5920; Qossweiler. 



IVTozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; near Tabora, Spelce ty 

 Grant ! 



Also in nearly all tropical countries, often as a weed on cultivated ground. 



This plant is used as forage for horses and oxen in the Congo Free State. — Be 

 Wild. Notices PL Utiles du Congo, 549. 



35. CAPRARIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 959. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments equal, narrow, scarcely imbricate. Corolla 

 campanulate or subrotate, deeply 5-fid ; tube short; lobes flat, imbricate. 

 Stamens 4 or 5, shorter than the corolla, somewhat unequal ; filaments 

 filiform ; anthers sagittate or almost horseshoe-shaped ; cells divergent, 

 confluent at the apex. Style short, dilated and almost 2-lobed at the 

 apex. Capsule ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bisulcate, loculicidal ; valves at 

 length 2-ficl. Seeds numerous, small, attached to thick placentas, 

 reticulate. — Glabrous or hairy perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 alternate, serrate. Peduncles axillary, ebracteate, usually geminate. 

 Flowers white. 



Species 4, natives of tropical and subtropical America. 



1. C. biflora, Linn. Sp. PI. ed.i. 628. A more or less pilose erect 

 branched undershrub, 2-4 ft. high, with a creeping rootstock ; stem 



