■462 xcn. scrophulariace^e (hemsley and skan). [Bartsia. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro : last zone of vegetation 

 below perpetual snow, Kirk! 12000 ft., Johnston! Johannes Ravine 11000- 

 12000 ft., VolTcens, 1178 ! 



8. B. decurva, Tlochst. ex Bentk.in DC. Prodr.x. 545. Shrubby, 

 1-2 ft. hi»h, distinctly glandular-hairy in almost all parts. Stems 

 rio'idly erect, with few erect or almost adpressed branches. Leaves 

 crowded, sessile, thick, oblong, from G-12 lin. long, bullate-crenate 

 recurved when dry and adpressed to the branches. Flowers very 

 shortly stalked, about 1 in. long. Calyx 4-5 lin. long, unequally 

 5-lobed, the posterior one much shorter, the others narrow-oblong, very 

 obtuse and often furnished with one or two obtuse teeth. Corolla more 

 than twice as long as the calyx ; tube wider and more abruptly curved 

 than in B. kilimandscharica, Engl., minutely hairy inside ; limb dis- 

 tinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip hood-shaped, hairy inside and including the 

 bearded mucronate anthers and the clavate style. Ovary very hairy ; 

 style very slightly hairy. Capsule oblong, hairy, a little longer than 

 the calyx. Seeds not seen. — A. Rich. Tent. El. Abyss, ii. 135. 



TUile Land. Abyssinia : side of Mount Silki, Schimper, 1329 ! Ghaba 

 Valley, Steudner, 798 ! 



Some of the Andine species are remarkably like tliis and B. similis, notably B. 

 ■santolincefolia, Henth., the Euphrasia santolincefolia, H.B. & K. (Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 

 t. 166). In foliage they are hardly distinguishable. 



Order XCIII. 0K0BANCHACE.E. (By Otto Stapf.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, zygomorphic. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, 

 2-5-toothed or -lobed, rarely truncate, or spathaceous and open in front, 

 or consisting of 2 lateral 1-2-toothed or linear divisions which are 

 either quite free or more or less united at the base in front. Corolla 

 gamopetalous, tubular or funnel-shaped in the upper part, usually 

 curved ; limb oblique, 2-lipped or nearly equally 5-lobed ; upper lip 

 entire or 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes imbricate, the upper inside. 

 Stamens 4, diclynamous, usually inserted below the middle of the corolla- 

 tube and enclosed in it ; filaments filiform ; anthers dorsifixed, conniving 

 or cohering (by means of hairs) in pairs ; cells parallel or slightly diverg- 

 ing, often mucronate, longitudinally dehiscent, both fertile or one 

 empty. Disc hypogynous, obscure or produced anticously into a nectarial 

 gland. Ovary superior, 1 -celled ; carpels 2, median, rarely 3 ; style 

 simple, terminal ; stigma orbicular or 2-3-lobed. Placentas 4, separate 

 or contiguous or partly fused in pairs ; ovules very numerous, anatro- 

 pous. Capsule 1-celled, more or less dehiscing with 2 valves. Seeds 

 very numerotis, small ; testa often foveolate-reticulate ; endosperm 

 fleshy. Embryo globose, of few cells, undifferentiated. — Annual or 

 perennial parasitic herbs, almost perfectly destitute of chlorophyll, 

 variously coloured, but never green. Stems usually simple, solitary or 

 fascicled, more or less fleshy. Leaves reduced to, often fleshy, scales, 





