Striga.'] xcn. scrophulariace.e (hemsley and skan). 409 1 



crimson, pink or white ; tube 6-7 lin. long, thickly covered with short 

 gland-tipped hairs, curved and slightly inflated at the apex ; upper lip 

 obreniform, 2-2-J- lin. long, about 5 lin. broad ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes 

 oblong to obovate, 4^-5 lin. long, lj— 2f lin. broad. Style 4J-5J lin. 

 long. Capsule oblong, about 2 lin. long and 1 lin. broad. — DO. Prodr. 

 x. l>02 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Air. 382 ; Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 

 361 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 779, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 

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

 Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 480 ; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 190. 

 Bachnera elegans, D. Dietr. Syn. PL iii. 525. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; near Sobato Nbilla, WelioitscJi,. 

 5851 ! by the River Habungu, at 3600 ft., Bau-m, 490 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : below Ruchigga. 5000 ft., BagsTiawer 

 495. Kilimanjaro ; below Marangu, Vol kens, 2137 I Uhehe; Ucbungwe Mountains* 

 near Kissinga, Goetze, 582. British Central Africa : near Lake Tanganyika, 

 Cameron! Nyasaland ; near Blantyre, Last ! between Lakes Shirwa and Cbiuta, 

 Cunningham, 18 ! Rhodesia ; Leslmmo Valley, Holub, 483 ! 484 ! Mashonaland, 

 Son. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 259 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



15. S. lutea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 22. An erect slender parasitic 

 herb, often 6-9 in. high (rarely under 3 or more than 12 in.), usually 

 branched, scabridly hairy or sometimes villous, drying green or brown. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite, narrowly linear or sometimes lanceolate, 

 J— 1£ in. (often about -J- i n -) l° n g> |—2 nn - Droa ^) acute or obtuse, entire, 

 scabridly hairy. Spikes terminal, usually 4-6 in. long, distant-flowered ; 

 bracts linear, 1|— 4 lin. long, obtuse or acute, scabridly hairy ; bracteoles 

 similar but shorter. Calyx 2-|-4 lin. (usually 3 lin.) long, generally 

 10-ribbecl, 5-toothed, scarious between the ribs, scabridly hairy on the 

 ribs and teeth ; teeth stiff, subulate or narrowly triangular, J- 14 lin. 

 long, the uppermost usually smallest. Corolla scarlet, reel, yellow or 

 white ; tube 4-7 lin. long, very slender, glabrous or puberulous, straight 

 and cylindric to about 1 lin. below the apex where it is distinctly curved 

 and inflated ; upper lip broadly obovate or almost obreniform, about 

 1 lin. long and 2 lin. broad; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes obovate orcuneate- 

 obovate, 2— 2£ lin. long, 1-J-lf- lin. broad. Style 3^ lin. long. Capsule 

 oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, If- 2 lin. long, 1-1J lin. broad. — Benfch. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363 ; Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 11 ; 

 Durand &, Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 212 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. i. 780, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 382; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Inch 

 iv. 299. S. hirsuta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502; Schweinf. Beitr. FL 

 Aethiop. 100 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361 ; DeWild.& Durancl, Contrib. 

 Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 46, and Reliq. Dewevr. 171 ; Engl. ifeGilgin Baum r 

 Kunene-Samb. Exped. 369 ; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 

 226 ; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 142. S. hirsuta, var. 

 hvmilis, Klotzsch, I.e. 227, 571. -S'. hirsitta, var. 'perpusilla, A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 132. S. pusilla, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. 

 x. 503. S. zangebarica, Klotzsch, I.e. 571, t. 35. S. coccinea, Benth. in 

 Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364, and in DC. Prodr. x. 503. S. lutea, var. 

 coccinea, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 240. Campuleia coccinea, 



