768 Lxxxix. SCROPHULAEIACE^. [Melasma 



least on the rigidly cUiolate whitish entire margins, more or less 

 scattered or clothed -with whitish scales, i to 1 in. long by ^ to 

 ^ in. broad ; flowers ^ to ^ in. long, opposite, sessile, solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves and gradually arranged in terminal 

 leafy erect spikes ; bracts sublinear, nearly ^ in. long at the base of 

 the calyx ; calyx ^ in. long, campanulate, nearly regular, shortly 

 5- cleft; the lobes ovate-triangular, about half as long as the tube, 

 obtuse ; corolla not much exceeding the calyx ; filaments a little 

 hairy, not densely bearded; stigma large, curved; capsule oval- 

 oblong, f in. long. _ 



HuiLLA. — In wooded grassy moist places between IvantS,la and 

 Quilengues, sparingly ; fl. and f r.- March 1859. No. 5797. 



4. M. hippocrepandrvun Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, branched, herbaceous-green, parasitical herb, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, not juicy ; root tuberous, furnished with orange-cinnabar- 

 coloured fibres ; stem somewhat hispid, strictly erect, clothed 

 below with small ovate sessile hispidulous or subglabrous green 

 foliaceous scales and above with herbaceous green leaves ; the 

 latter opposite, subopposite, or alternate, more or less ovate and 

 obtuse, paucidentate oi nearly entire, narrowed and 3-nerved 

 towards the shortly petiolate base, hispidulous, ranging up to 

 1 in. long by nearly ^ in. broad ; flowers in the upper axils 

 solitary and gradually arranged in terminal spicate racemes ; 

 peduncles or pedicels short, the lower ones about J in. long, the 

 upper ones shorter; bracts 2, at the base of the calyx, linear- 

 spathulate, ^ in. long, shortly hispid ; calyx broadly campanulate, 

 ^ to -J- in., 5-cleft half-way down ; the segments ovate-triangular, 

 but little acuminate, beset with white hairs, ciliolate ; corolla not 

 much exceeding the calyx, deep yellow, 6-lobed ; the tube dilated ; 

 the limb oblique, almost as in Verbaseum ; the lobes obovate- 

 spathulate, obtuse, 3-nerved, imbricate in aestivation, rotately 

 spreading in open flower ; the nerves thick and strongly promi- 

 nent on the lower face of the lobes ; stamens 4, subdidynamous, 

 inserted on the corolla-throat, alternating with its lobes, without 

 any rudiment of a fifth stamen ; filaments not bearded ; anthers 

 white, introrse, dorsifixed, longitudinally 2-celled, horseshoe-shaped, 

 shortly pilose on the back ; ovary globose, slightly trigonous ; 

 placenta central ; style thick ; stigma clavate, nodding, exceeding 

 the stamens ; seeds very numerous, delicate. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Infesting crops of Arachis, too plentiful ; fl. and 

 fr. end of May 1856. In Sobato de Queta, on crops of maize and 

 Dolichos, rather rare ; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 5900- 



This must be compared with M. Vogelii (Benth.), but it is less 

 scabrid, and the calyx-lobes are not so obtuse. It is the parasite 

 mentioned as a new genus in Welw. Apontam. p. 551, sub no. 101. 



5. M. orobanchoides Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, p. 359 (1895). 

 Orobanche parvijlora E. M. ex Drfege, Oat. PI. Exsicc. Afr. 



Austr. p. 4 (1837), and in Flora, 1843, Bes. Beig. p. 159. Alectra 

 orobanchoides Benth., in DC. Prodr. x. p. 340 (1846). Wigrina 

 orobanchodes 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL iii. 2, p. 237 (1898). 



