408 xcn. scrophulariace,e (hemsley and skan). [Striga. 



100; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 381 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361 ; 

 Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 122; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. 

 Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 46 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 143. 

 Buchnera hermonthica, Delile, Fl. Egypte, 245, t. 34, fig. 3. 



Wile land. ^Ethiopia, Xotschy, 195 ! 268 ! Kordofan : El Greo, Pfuncl, 

 465 ! 679 ! Nubia : Berber ; El Mekerif , Schweinfurth, 594 ! Khartoum, PetliericJc ! 

 Gallabat : near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 181 ! Eritrea : Steudner, 778 ! Bogos, 

 Terracciano Sf Pappi, 2642 ! Blue Nile, Muriel, 34 ! Bosieres, Muriel, 22 ;. 

 White Nile, PethericJc ! Abyssinia : near Gapdia, Schimper, 790 ! and without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 496 ! 1501 ! Seimar, Kotschy, 561 ! Jur : Juiv 

 Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2381 ! Morn : Neangara, PethericJc ! Uganda : Unyoro, 

 SpeJce Sf Grant, 572 ! 12th march from Mumias, Whyte ! Bugangadzi, 4000 ft. 

 Daive, 120 ! Elgon District, .James ! West Ankole, 4000 ft. Dawe, 444 ! 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland; Olukonda, 

 Sclrinz, 42 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : by the Lomami Biver, Descamps. 



Also in Egypt and Arabia. 



Faxasitic on the roots of Sorghum, Zea, &c. 



13. S. senegalensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502. Very closely 

 resembles S. hermonthica, and is probably only a small-flowered 

 form of it ; in habit and foliage it is the same. Calyx 3 J- 4 lin. 

 long, 5-toothed, 5-nerved ; teeth triangular, about 1 lin. long, with 

 filiform tips, ciliate. Corolla purple or reel ; tube 0-7 lin. long, curved 

 and inflated above the calyx ; upper lip obovate, slightly emarginate or 

 2-lobed, 1|— 3 lin. long and broad; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes obovate or 

 obovate-oblong, 2-4 lin. long, H-3 lin. broad. Style If lin. long. 

 Capsule obo void-oblong, about 2 lin. long and 1% lin. broad. — Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 101. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Poussillon ! Gambia, Ingram t 

 Southern Nigeria : by the Biver Niger, Baikie I Aboh, Barter, 136 ! Stirling Hill, 

 Vogel, 130 ! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter. 866 / Confluence of the Niger and 

 Benue Rivers, Ansell ! Bornu ; Maigumeri, Elliott, 128 ! 



TSTile Land. Abyssinia: Horcones Valley, Wellby ! White Nile: Dinka 

 District, Surnier. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz^ 

 14 partly ! 



Mozamb. IHist. Mozambique, Forbes ! 



14. S. elegams, Benth. in Hook. Gomp. Bot. Mag. i. 363. An 

 erect rather rigid annual herb, 6-18 in. high, drying green; stems 

 usually simple, densely pubescent. Leaves opposite, erect, linear- 

 lanceolate, J-l in. long, usually about 1 lin. broad, subacute, rather 

 thick, densely and scabridly pubescent, entire. Spikes terminal, 2-8 in.. 

 long, more or less interrupted or densely flowered ; bracts lanceolate, 

 \-\ in. long, acuminate, densely and shortly pubescent; bracteoles 

 subulate or linear, 2|— 3J lin. long. Calyx about 5 lin. long, 10- or 11- 

 nerved, 5-toothed, rather densely pubescent, scabrid ; teeth narrowly 

 triangular or subulate, somewhat rigid, 1|— 2 lin. long. Corolla scarlet, 



