200 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



Order LI. SCROPHULARINE.dE. 



A large order widely dispersed over all parts of the world. Twelve genera 

 are represented in Socotra, of which one is endemic, two are entirely African, 

 one of them reaching to the Cape, and four of the others are essentially north- 

 west African and south-west Asiatic species, though one extends to the Cape 

 de Verde Islands. The remainder have a wider range, — either in the old 

 world alone, or in both old and new worlds. 



1. ANTICHARIS. 



Anticharis, Endl. Gen. 682, and Iconogr. t. 93 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 928. 



A small genus of four species of viscid herbs entirely confined to north-west 

 tropical Africa and the plains of south-west Asia. 



A. arabica, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Decad. 23, and Iconogr. t. 93 ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prod. x. 347 ; Aschs. in Monatsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Ber. 1866, 881 ; Boiss. Flor. 

 Orient, iv. 422 ; Franch. Sert. Somal. in Miss. Revoil 54. 



Meisarrhena tomentosa, E. Br. in Salt Abyss, app. 



Capraria arabica, Hochst. et Steud. in herb. Schimp. Arab. n. 748. 



Socotra. On the sandy plains. B.C.S. n. 537. 



Distrib. Arabia, Beloochistan, Nile Land. 



Very nearly allied to the other Arabian and tropical African species, A. 

 gland ulosa, Aschs. (in Monatsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Berol. 1866, 880), and A. 

 linearis, Hochst. (Aschs. loc. cit.), with which it has been often confused. The 

 A. arabica of Ach. Richard (Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 119) is A. linearis, Hochst, 

 and the Aden plant, referred by T. Anderson (in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. (1860), 

 Suppl. 27) to A. arabica, is A. glandulosa, Aschs. 



2. LINARIA. 



Linaria, Juss. Gen. PL 120 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 932. 



A large genus of herbs inhabiting extratropical regions in the northern 

 hemisphere of the old world, but a few are tropical species. One only occurs 

 in extratropical America. 



L. (Elatinoides) hastata, R. Br. in Salt Abyss, app. ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prod. x. 269 ; Ach. Rich. Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 113. 

 L. capillipes, Hochst. in herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 1042. 



Socotra. On the plains. Not uncommon. B.C.S. nn. 21, 718. 

 Schweinf. n. 311. 



Distrib. Abyssinia. 



