Jhtchnera,] xcn. scrophulariace/e (hemsley and skan). 399 1 



about 4 \ lin. long, somewhat funnel-shaped, straight or slightly 

 curved, glabrous outside, pilose at the throat inside ; lobes obovate or 

 obovate-orbicular, about \\ lin. long and 1^ lin. broad. Anthers acute. 

 Style 2 lin. long. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Amboella ; between the Kulei and Kutsi Eivers, 

 4300 ft., Baum, 875! 



Imperfectly known sixties. 



52. B. verbenoides, Klotzsch in Peters, Eeise Mossamb. Bot. 226.. 

 An erect hirsute-puberulous branched herb 2 ft. high ; stem and 

 branches terete, sparingly hirsute ; branches short. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, the lower opposite, the upper alternate and narrower, 

 1J-2 in. long, ~2-G lin. broad, subcoriaceous, obtuse, shortly narrowed 

 at the base, sparingly and stiffly pubescent above on the nerves beneath 

 and on the margins ; petiole short, with long hairs. Flowers in 

 crowded capitate-spicate inflorescences 1-2 in. long on terminal or 

 axillary alternate peduncles 2—3 in. long ; bracts lanceolate-subulate, 

 pubescent, shorter than the calyx. Calyx pubescent, scarcely ribbed,, 

 acutely 5-toothed. Corolla small, salver-shaped ; tube narrow, sparingly 

 pilose outside ; lobes subequal, short, rounded, glabrous. 



IVTozamb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Peters. 

 Also in Madagascar. 



53. B. bragaana, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 360. Stem branched 

 from the base; branches erect, about 10-12 in. long, with all parts 

 shortly and hispidly wdiite-pilose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, rather 

 thick. Inflorescence an interrupted few-flowered spike ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, scarcely equalling the calyx. Calyx elongate-tubular ; teeth 

 triangular, -1 times shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube hispid-pilose, 

 elongate, narrow, twice longer than the calyx ; lobes broadly obovate, 

 3 times shorter than the tube, the lower lobe somewhat larger than the 

 rest. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Beira ; Braga, 11. 



41. STRIGA, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 968. 



Calyx tubular, 5-15- (rarely up to 17-) ribbed, 5- (rarely 4-) toothed 

 or -lobed. Corolla-tube slender below, usually abruptly curved at or 

 above the middle and more or less inflated from the curve to the apex ; 

 limb 2-lipped ; upper lip inside, usually shorter than the lower, entire, 

 emarginate, or 2-lobecl ; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included ; anthers 1-celled, vertical, affixed at the back, connective 

 sometimes mucronate at the apex. Style thickened or clavate above,, 

 stigmatose at the apex. Capsule oblong, ellipsoid or ovoid, loculicidal ; 

 valves coriaceous, entire. Seeds many, obovoid or oblong ; testa reti- 

 culate. — Herbs erect and sometimes rigid, often parasitic and drying 



