404 XCII. SCROPHULARIACE.E (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [StrigCl. 



incurved margins, with white points. Spikes terminal, numerous, 

 slender, 1 J-3J lin. long, more or less interrupted ; flowers alternate ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, |~ 1 lin. long, acute, concave, hispidly ciliate and 

 with a few short hispid hairs on the keel ; bracteoles linear, -J— § lin. 

 long, hispidly ciliate. Calyx lj-lf lin. long, 5-nerved, 5-toothed, with 

 white rather long stiff hairs chiefly on the margins of the teeth ; teeth 

 narrowly triangular, acuminate, f lin. long, the uppermost smaller. 

 Corolla sparingly and shortly glandular-pubescent, apparently white ; 

 tube 5 lin. long, very slender below, abruptly curvecl about 3J lin. from 

 the base and inflated from the curve to the apex ; upper lip broadly 

 obovate or subrhomboid, 1-1 1 lin. long, 1 \ lin. broad ; lower lip \\- If 

 lin. long; lobes obovate-oblong, 1 \ lin. long, nearly J lin. broad, obtuse. 

 Style 2f lin. long. Capsule ovoid, 1 \ lin. long, f- lin. broad. 



tJpper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe ; Jeba on the Niger, Barter ! 



4. S. micrantha, A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 180. Stem erect, 

 paniculately branched, angular, tuberculate-scabrid. Leaves linear, 

 tuberculate-scabrid on the upper-side and on the midrib and margins of 

 the under-side. Spikes slender, forming a very much branched elongated 

 panicle, with the flowers separated from one another ; flowers very 

 small, sessile ; bracts linear. Calyx campanulate, 5-ribbed, pilose ; 

 teeth triangular-oblong, acute. Corolla tubular, curvecl, gradually 

 inflated, scarcely J in. long, 3 times as long as the calyx, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip entire, scarcely shorter than the lower. Capsule ovoid, as 

 long as the calyx, long-apiculate. 



ETile Xiand. Abyssinia : Shireh, Quart in-Dillon. 



5. S. Thunbergii, Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 363. A 

 rigid erect herb usually 6-9 in. high but sometimes up to 1J ft. high, 

 rather stout, more or less densely hispidly pubescent, scabrid ; stems 

 simple or sparingly branched. Leaves opposite, adpressed to the stems 

 or branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, J-1J in. long, J-1J lin. broad, 

 acute or somewhat obtuse, hispidly pubescent, often scabrid, especially 

 along the margins, with white points. Spikes terminal, 1-7 in. long, 

 usually densely-flowered'and bearing imbricate bracts ; flowers opposite ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2J-4 lin. long, acute or acuminate, 

 shortly pubescent or sometimes glabrous except on the hispidly ciliate 

 margins; bracteoles linear, about 2-|- lin. long. Calyx 2-4 lin. long, 5- 

 nerved, 5-toothed, pubescent on the nerves and teeth ; teeth linear-tri- 

 angular, §-- 1J lin. long, acuminate. Corolla red, purple or violet, more or 

 less glandular-pubescent ; tube 4-5 lin. long, narrow below, curved and 

 much inflated near the apex ; upper lip broadly oblong or obovate, 2-2J 

 lin. long, entire or emarginate ; lower lip 2|— 8 lin. long ; lobes oblong 

 to oblong-linear, 1-2 lin. long. Capsule ellipsoid, 1J-1J lin. long, 1J 

 lin. broad, apiculate. — DC. Prodr. x. 502 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 779, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 380 ; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 

 468 ; Engl. &, Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 369. Buchnera 

 asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i, 680, partly. B. bilabiata, Thunb. Prodr. 100. 



