402 xcn. scrophulariacEyE (hemsley and skan). [Strigct.. 



1. S. orobamchoides, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 361 r 

 t. 19. A rigid erect parasitic herb 8-18 in. high, usually much branched 

 from the base, more or less covered with short hairs or almost glabrous ; 

 root tuberous ; branches usually stout, angular, erect. Leaves scale- 

 like, opposite or alternate, lanceolate, up to about \ in. long, acute* 

 Spikes terminal, often as long as the branches themselves, usually much 

 interrupted, but sometimes rather densely-flowered and scarcely inter- 

 rupted ; flowers opposite to alternate, sessile ; bracts lanceolate to 

 broadly lanceolate, about J in. long, |— 1 lin. broad, acuminate, keeled., 

 nearly glabrous or more or less pilose and ciliate ; bracteoles linear,, 

 about 2 lin. long. Calyx 3|— 5 lin. long, somewhat scarious, shortly 

 hairy or glabrous except the teeth, more or less irregularly 5-toothed,. 

 5-nerved, splitting very easily between the teeth ; teeth lanceolate,, 

 acuminate, about 1 lin. long, ciliate. Corolla brownish-red, rose, lavender 

 to purple, or white ; tube 4J-6 lin. long, bent and inflated above the 

 calyx, glabrous or minutely puberulous ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip- 

 shortly 2-lobed ; lower lip deeply 3-lobed ; lobes ovate, l|-2f- lin. long,. 

 1J-2-J lin. broad, entire or slightly toothed at the apex, thin. Style- 

 about 2 lin. long, persistent, Capsule ovoid-oblong, 2|— 2J- lin. long,. 

 l-li Hn. broad.— DC. Prodr. x. 501 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 129 ;. 

 Ivlotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Pot. 228 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FL 

 Aethiop. 100; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 254; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 778, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 880 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. 

 Bot. Roma, viii. 143 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Inch iv. 299. S. gesnerioides? 

 Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 11, and in Linnpea, xliii. 310 ; EngL 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 405 ; Engl. & 

 Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 369 ; De Wild. & Durand r 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 46. Striga orchidea, Hochst. ex Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 501. Buchnera gesnerioides, Willcl. Sp. PI. iii. 388. 

 B. orobanchoides, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append, lxiv., name only. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 540 ! Leprieur, 6 ! Senegal, Sieber,- 

 52 ! Togo : near Lome, WameeJce, 189 ! Southern Nigeria : River Quorra (Niger), 

 Vogel I 



lffile Xiand. Nubia: Hor Tamanib, near Suakin, Lord I Suakin, Selnvein- 

 furth, 176 ! Eritrea : A'idereso, Schweinfurth Sf JRiva, 1438 ! near Acrur, Schwein- 

 furth Sc Siva, 1051 ! and various localities, Terracciano fy Pappi. Abyssinia : 

 Samen ; near Enderder, Schimper, 1340 ! near Djenda-Dembea, Steudner, 782 ! 

 Upper Sheikh, Thomson ! Kordofan, Pfund, 232 ! Kotschy, 1 n ! Mount Arashkol, 

 Kotschy, 387 ! White Nile : Wod Schellai, Schiveinfurth, 837 ! Somaliland : Golis 

 Range, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Guldoo Hammel, Miss JSdith Cole ! British East 

 Africa : Mombasa Island, Hildebrandt, 2035 ! between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte ! 

 Mombasa to Takaunga, Whyte ! 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Boma, Monteiro ! Angola: road to Bembe, 

 Monteiro ! Loanda, Weliuitsch, 5916 ! Oossweiler, 329 ! north of Loanda, Goss- 

 weiler, 1 ! Cazengo, Gossweiler, 647 ! Pnngo Andongo, Welivitsch, 5848 ! Mossa- 

 medes, Weliuitsch, 5824! by the Biver Longa, between the Rivers Lazingua and 

 Quiriri, i?aw»j, 665 ! German South-west Africa : Olukonda and Oshiheke, Sc7iinz,\9 ! 

 35 ! lat. 23°, Chapman Sf Baines ! 



IVXozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Amboni, Hoist, 2683 ! Ugogo,. 

 Hannington ! Usaramo ; Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 1263 ! Portuguese East Africa : 

 Tete, Kirk! British Central Africa: Niomkolo Island in Lake Tanganyika,. 



