Striga.] xcn. scrophulariaoe,e (hemsley and skan). 411 



District, James ! Nandi ; Sibu, James ! and without precise locality, Wilson, 

 261 27! 



lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; by the Cuanza River, Johnston ! 

 Lonibe, Wehcitsch, 5893 ! 



Mozamb, Dist. Pemba Island, Lyne ! German East Africa : Usambara; 

 Lutindi, 4900 ft., Hoist, 3269 ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Forbes ! 

 Rios de Sena, Peters ; foot of Morambala Mountain, Kirk I near Mazaro, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa: Nyasaland; North Nyasa and Upper Loangwa River, 

 Nicholson ! River Shire, Elephant Marsh and Nsese River, Scott ! north of the 

 River Shire, Metier ! Bechuanaland : Bakwena Territory, 3500 ft., Holub ! 



Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 



<S. De/vevrei, De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Eot. Belg. xxxviii. 99, 

 from the Congo Free State, I have not seen. Judging from the description it is the 

 same as, or very closely allied to, the above species. 



17. S. latericea, Vatkein Linncea, xliii. 811. Stems erect, rather 

 slender, 1-2 J ft. high, simple, sparingly leafy, somewhat densely covered 

 with very small fine scarcely hispid hairs ; internodes usually 2-3£ in. 

 long. Leaves mostly opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-lf in. 

 long, l^-2tj lin. broad, acuminate, 3-nerved, densely and shortly pube- 

 scent, scabrid, with a few rather long and slender teeth on each side 

 usually about the middle. Flowers in a terminal loose spike up to 6 in. 

 long, and sometimes also in the axils of the uppermost leaves distant 

 from the rest ; bracts lanceolate, 3-5|- lin. long, or the lowermost some- 

 times up to 1 in. long, acuminate, rather densely and shortly pubescent, 

 ciliate ; bracteoles linear, 2-3 lin. long, densely pubescent. Calyx 6-7 

 lin. long, 15— 17-ribbed, densely covered with fine short scarcely hispid 

 hairs ; teeth triangular-ligulate, 2-4 lin. long, somewhat unequal, acu- 

 minate, more or less distinctly 3-ribbed. Corolla brick-red ; tube 10-15 

 lin. long, sharply curved and inflated about 2J lin. from the apex, 

 glandular-hairy except at the glabrous base ; limb 2-lipped, 7-10 lin. in 

 diam. ; upper lip broadly obovate to transversely oblong, 3-4 lin. long, 

 4|— 6 lin. broad, subtruncate or emarginate ; lower lip deeply 3-lobed ; 

 lobes broadly obovate to obovate-oblong, 4|-5^ lin. long, 3-4^- lin. broad, 

 rounded, the median rather larger than the others. Anthers oblong, 

 i| lin. long, obtuse. Style nearly as long as the corolla-tube, clavate at 

 the apex. Capsule oblong, about 4 lin. long, If lin. broad, somewhat 

 compressed, beaked. — Cycnium striatum, Engl. Prl. Ost-Afr. C. 361. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : near Magi Chumoi, 570 ft., Kassner, 474 ■ 

 Sultan Hamoud, Kassner, 045 ! Wanga, Smith ! Ukamba ; Kitui, Uildebrandf, 

 2752. 



IVTozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Duga; Hoist, 3201. 

 Masheua, Hoist, 8838 ; Hosiga, Hoist, 2532 ! 



18. S. somaliensis, Shan. Stems erect, 6-12 in. high, simple, 

 about 1 lin. in diam., covered with short fine hairs, few-leaved, bearing 

 near the base several pairs of rudimentary leaves or scales ; upper 

 internodes 1J in. long. Leaves in 2 or 3 pairs, linear-lanceolate ,1J-1 f 

 in. long, l 1 -- 2 lin. broad, acuminate, quite entire or very few-toothed, 

 densely and shortly pubescent, somewhat scabrid. Flowers opposite or 



