410 XCII. SCR.OPHULARIACE.E (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [StrigCC. 



Hook. Exot. Fl. iii. t. 203. C. hirsuta, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 132. Buchnera asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 630, partly. B. coccinea, Benth. 

 in Wall. Cat. 3870, and Scroph. Ind. 40, not of Scopoli. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Morson ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 

 538 ! 



Nile land. Eritrea: Assaorta, Pajjpi, 3344; Amasen, Ragazzi, 261. 

 Gallabat : near Matamma, Schiveinfurth, 178 ! Abyssinia : Gafta, Schimper, 1209 ! 

 Bongo : Gir, Schiveinfurth, 2159 ! Adclai, Schiveinfurth, 2180 ! River Lesi, 

 .Schiveinfurth, 4026 ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schiveinfurth, 19S2 ! 2285 ! Uganda : 

 Kavirontio ; between Nandi and Mumias, Whyte ! Elgon District, James ! Entebbe, 

 Brown, 21 ! British East Africa : Atlii Plains, 5600 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6545 ! Nvika 

 Country, Wakefield I 



lower Guinea. Loango : near Putnmongo, Soyaux, 189 ! Angola : Pungo 

 Andongo; by the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 5881! between Luxillo and Cazella, 

 Welwitsch,\588Q ! Huilla; between Lopollo and Jau, Welwitsch, 5819 ! by the River 

 Kubango, Baum, 393 ! Lower Congo ; Boma, Monteiro I Stanley Pool, Calleivaert ! 

 German South-west Africa : Amboland; Olukonda, Schinz, 16 ! 



Mozanib. 33ist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Frere ! Hildebrandt, 1134 ! German East 

 Africa : Zanguebar, Kirk, 67 ! Rovuma River, Kirk ! Karagwe, Scott-JElliot, 

 .8179! Usambara; Amboni, Hoist, 2689 ! Kilimanjaro; Maiangu, T'olkens, 225 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Mutton I Kirk 1 Namiqua Island, Hutton ! 

 Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! Morambala Mountain, Scott ! east coast of 

 Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 101 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland : Nyika Plateau, 

 5000 ft., McClounie, 60! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 369! Namasi, Cameron! 

 Rhodesia ; Gwelo, Gardner, 42 ! Matabeleland, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 128 ! 



Also in South Africa , the Mascarene Islands, and the hotter parts of Asia. 



£. lutea, var. licolor, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 240, is the form in which 

 the corolla is scarlet above and yellow below. 



1G. S. Forbesii, Benth. in Hook. Coinp. Bot. Mag. i. 364. An 

 erect herb up to 15 in. high, usually drying green; stem simple or 

 sparingly branched, scabridly pubescent, often rather stout, leafy. 

 Leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate-linear or lanceolate, 1-2J in. 

 long, 1J-7 (usually 2£)lin. broad, somewhat obtuse, shortly pubescent, 

 very scabricl, more or less toothed, often callose at the apex of the leaf 

 and teeth. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracteoles 

 linear, about 5 lin. long, hispidly hairy, callose at the apex. Calyx 

 5-6 lin. long, 10-13-ribbed, deeply 5-lobed, scabridly hairy ; lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, 2J-4J lin. long, unequal, scarcely acute, callose at the apex. 

 Corolla pink, scarlet or bright yellow; tube 10-11 lin. long, sharply 

 curved and inflated at the apex, shortly pubescent ; upper lip lf-3 lin. 

 long, 2|- 4 lin. broad, subtruncate or shortly 2dobecl ; lobes divergent, 

 subacute or rounded ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes oblong to broadly obovate, 

 usually 3-5 lin. long and 2^-5 lin. broad. Style 7-8 lin. long. Capsule 

 oblong or ellipsoid, 3-4 lin. long, about 2 lin. broad. — DC. Prodr. x. 503 ; 

 Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 227 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 361, excl. syn. ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welvv. i. 780, and in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 384. Buchnera Forbesii, D. Dietr. Syn. PL iii. 526. Cycnium 

 pratense, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur, 5 / 



Nile Xiand. Gallabat : near Matamma, Schiveinfurth, 179 ! Uganda : Elgon 



