756 Lxxxix. SCEOPHULAEIACE^. [Anticharis 



2. ANTICHARIS Endl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 928. 



1. A. liuearis Hochst. ex Aschers. in Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berl. 1866, p. 882 (1867). 



Boratanthera linearis Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. p. 347 (1846). 



MossAMBDES. — An annual, erect, branched herb, about 4 to 9 in. 

 high, with the aspect of Linaria viscida Moench, glandular-viscid 

 throughout ; stem and branches slender, purple ; corolla salver-shaped, 

 the tube gradually widened, the limb 5-oleft, the segments obtuse with 

 one larger than the others forming a subringent corolla, the tube 

 whitish-yellow, the limb violet-coloured spotted inside with purple ; 

 capsule 2-celIed ; seeds numerous, turning yellow, longitudinally 

 furrowed. In rocky maritime places at Praia da Amelia and about 

 Santo Antonio, plentiful ; fl. and very few fr. 20 July 1859.' No. 5810. 



Our specimens differ from the typical form of the species by the 

 bracteoles being inserted below the middle of the peduncles. 



2. A. Aschersoniaua Schinz in Verb. Bot. Brandeab. xxxi. 

 p. 188 (1890). 



MossAMEDES. — An annual herb, from 3 in. to 1 or 2 ft. high, at first 

 erect and sub-simple, soon decumbent and branched ; branches and 

 branchlets erect or ascending, glandular-viscid throughout ; flowers 

 very elegant, with the habit of Maurandia ; corolla tubular-funnel- 

 shaped, sublabiate, the tube yellowish-azure, the throat atropur- 

 pureous, the limb blue outside and blackish purple inside. In sandy 

 places at the banks of the river Bero, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 

 to Aug. 1859. No. 5815. An erect, slender, annual herb, 1 to 2^ ft. 

 high, with violet-coloured flowers. In moist sandy somewhat bushy 

 places near Mata dos Carpinteiros, rare ; not in full fl. at end of June 

 1859, fl. in Sept. 1859. A form with less divaricate and more mode- 

 rately glandular-pubescent branches and longer and narrower leaves 

 than in the previous No. ; the anthers agree. No. 5814. 



3. LICLIS Benth. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii; p. 932. 



1. D. sessilifolia Diels in Engl Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 473 (1897). 



HtriLLA. — An erect, annual herb, with the habit of a small Tozzia, 

 very rapidly becoming limp ; stem tetragonal, branched ; branches 

 elongated, opposite ; leaves subsessile, opposite ; calyx-segments 5, 

 the posterior one the largest ; corolla yellow, coloured at the base and 

 on the spur with purple streaks ; the tube very short, the throat 

 dilated, the limb two-thirds way bilabiate, the upper lip short bilobed 

 and spurred behind, the lower lip trifid, the middle lobe larger than 

 the others and emarginate ; stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers approxi- 

 mated by pairs, unilocular ; ovary bilocular ; the placentas semi- 

 cylindrical, turned towards the dissepiment ; style short, straight, 

 stigma capitate ; fruiting pedicels reflected ; capsule perfectly 

 spherical, scarcely emarginate, bilocular, bivalved, the valves deeply 

 emarginate. In a damp pasture by the Humpata river, plentiful but 

 seen only in one place ; fl. and fr. 24 April 1860. No. 5771, and 

 Coll. Cakp. 812. 



4. SUTERA Roth, Bot. Bemerk. p. 172 (1807). 



Pahml/ruckia E,etz, Obs. Bot. Pugill. 15 (1810), non Send. (1860). 



Ghcenostoma Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. p. 374 (1836) ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 945. Lyperia Benth., I.e., p. 377 ; 

 Benth. & Hook, f., I.e. ; non Salisb. (1866). 



