458 xcn. scrophulariace^: (hemsley and skan). [Micrargeria* 



scopiformis, Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 313. S. jiliformis, G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 560. S. Jiliformis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 772. Gerardia 

 filimormis, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 272. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Const : near Ningo anil Prampram, Thonning. Shai 

 Plains, Johnson, 576 ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 271 ! 



ITile Land, Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schwehfurth, 2294! Bongo: Sabbi River,. 

 Schweinfurth, 2736! between Momba?a and Lamu, Whyte ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 5830! 

 near Lopnllo., Welwitsch, 5831 ! near Manonge on the River Kuebe, about 4500 tt.,. 

 Baum, 851. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; Duga, Hoist, 3191! 

 lower plateau, north of Lake Nvasa, Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa : Quenmba 

 (Kerimba) Islands, Peters. Britisb Central Africa: Nyas:iland ; Kondowe to 

 Karonga, 2000-6000 it., Whyte ! Manganja Hills, 4000 it., Kirk! 



Thomson's specimen from the north of Lake Nyasa bas a densely puberulous. 

 capsule. 



2. M. Barteri, Skan. In every respect the same as M. scopi- 

 formis, except that all the green parts are glabrous and smooth instead 

 of minutely puberulous and scabrid, and the capsule slightly larger 

 (2-2^ lin. in diam.). 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe, in wet places, Barter, 755 !. 

 1706! 



54. BARTSIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 977. 



Calyx tubular or campanulate, usually 4-lobed, some of the lobes 

 sometimes again divided or toothed. Corolla-tube slender and cylin- 

 drical with a distinctly 2-lipped limb, or ventricose with an almost 

 equally 5-lobed limb ; when 2-lipped, the upper lip helmet-shaped 

 enclosing the stamens, the lower lip o-lobed, spreading ; corolla almost 

 personate in one species. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther- 

 cells 2, equal, parallel, usually bearded and mucronate. Style entire, 

 capitate or tongue-shaped, included or slightly exserted. Capsule 

 globose, ovoid or oblong and compressed, usually exceeding the calyx, 

 septicidal ; valves often splitting to the middle ; placenta thick or thin. 

 Seeds numerous, oblong or reniform, longitudinally ribbed or winged. 

 — Herbs, usually erect, annual or perennial, sometimes shrubby, usually 

 hispid or viscous. Leaves opposite, crenate, serrate, pinnatificl or 

 entire, gradually smaller upwards. Flowers solitary in the axils, 

 sessile or shortly pedicellate, ebracteolate, lower often distant, upper 

 densely clustered. 



Species about 60, inhabiting Europe, extra-tropical Asia, North Africa, and 

 mountains of Tropical Africa and America. Two or three species are widely dispersed 

 as colonists. 



Annual. Corolla almost personate ; lower lip unequally 

 3-lobed ; palate inflated in two ridges; seeds rela- 

 tively small, longitudinally ribbed or striate . . 1. B. Trixago. 





