414 xcn. scROPHULARiACEiE (hemsley and skan). [Striga. 



late, up 3| in. long and -J in. broad, scarcely acute, obtusely serrate, 

 3-nerved, shortly pubescent, very scabrid. Spikes terminal, quadrangular, 

 densely-flowered, 1J-5 in. long, |— '§ in. broad, densely covered with 

 slender glandular hairs ; bracts broadly ovate to obovate, 2^-44^ lin. long ? 

 lx-2A lin. broad, obtuse or acute ; bracteoles lanceolate, 2|— 3^ lin. long. 

 Calyx ^-4 in. long, 10- or 11-nerved, 5-toothecl, densely glandular- 

 pubescent ; teeth triangular, 1-1^ lin. long, thick. Corolla white, pilose 

 outside ; tube 8?,— 10 lin. long, slender, sharply curved near the apex ; 

 upper lip very broadly obovate, l|-2 lin. long, 3^ lin. broad, subtruncate 

 or somewhat emarginate ; lower lip 3-lobed ; lobes obovate-oblong, 

 24-34^ lin. long, 2-2 4^ lin. broad. Style about J in. long. Capsule 

 ellipsoid-ovoid, 3J lin. long, 2 lin. broad. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 780. Buchnera macrantha, Benth. in Hook. Cornp. Bot. 

 Mag. i. 366. B. Buettneri, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 72, t. 3, figs. 

 T — U., and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Expecl. 314. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 607 ! Gambia, Brown-Lester, 34 I 

 Sierra Leone : about Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 4174 ! Wiwwood Reade ! Bumban 

 to Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5677 ! Scarries, Scott-Mliot, 4455 ! Togo : Bismarck- 

 burg, Kling, 179, 180, 183, and without precise locality, Buettner, 350. Lsigos, 

 Mitten ! Millson, 39 ! Rowland ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 985 ! 



lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto ; mountains of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 

 5907 ! Quibola, Monteiro ! 



23. S. Warmeckei, Engl. MSS. An erect rather slender herb 

 12-18 in. high, thinly covered with fine somewhat short spreading hairs, 

 scabrid ; stems simple, leafy, with short internodes. Leaves opposite, 

 narrowly linear, up to lj in. long, \— \ lin. broad, obtuse, somewhat 

 incurved along the margins. Spikes terminal, interrupted, very slender, 

 2 in. long or more ; flowers alternate ; bracts linear, leaf-like below, 

 gradually becoming shorter upwards, hispidly hairy ; bracteoles linear, 

 i lin, long, hispidly hairy. Calyx 2^—2^- lin. long, scarious, 5-nervecl, 

 irregularly slit into 5 linear-triangular acuminate teeth, rather long 

 and hispidly hairy on the upper part and on the teeth. Corolla-tube 

 about 2i- lin. long, somewhat constricted in the middle, inflated above, 

 but scarcely curved, thinly 10-nervecl, very minutely pubescent and 

 sprinkled over with minute capitate blackish glands ; upper lip |- lin. 

 long, § lin. broad, truncate ; lobes of the lower lip oblong, scarcely 4 lin. 

 long. Style 14^ lin. long, truncate and somewhat triangular at the 

 apex. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : near Lome, Wameclce, 201 ! 



24. S. Baumannii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 515, 1. 12 ; figs. — T. 

 A tall glaucous-green glabrous herb with a short stock and strong- 

 branched roots ; stems 2-4 or sometimes more, slender, 1J-3 ft. high, 

 sometimes sparingly branched near the middle, terete below with long 

 internodes, quadrangular above with shorter internodes. Leaves all 

 small, scale-like, closely adpressed to the stem, the lower ovate or 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, only 1|-2| lin. long and 1 lin. broad, opposite. 

 Spikes very slender, 4-12 in. long, remotely-flowered below; bracts 





