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The leaves on the Socotran specimens do not show the hastation so clearly 

 as those of the type, and they are more generally linear. The radical leaves 

 in some specimens are somewhat pilose. 



3. SCHWEINFURTHIA. 



Schweinfurthia, A. Braun in Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berol. 1866, 872, c. ic. ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 

 PL ii. 933. 



A small genus of three species of Linarioid herbs. One occurs in Arabia 

 and in Nile Land, another is found in Persia and Scindh, and the third is the 

 Socotran plant, which is found elsewhere only at Aden. 



S. pedicellata, Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 934. 



Anarrhinum pedicellatum , T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. (1860), Suppl. 26. 



Socotra. On the plains. B.C.S. n. 540. 



Distrib. Aden. 



The Socotran plant has a much stouter habit than that from Aden. 



4. ANTIRRHINUM. 



Antirrhinum, Linn. Gen. n. 750 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 934. 



A. small genus of about twenty-five herbaceous species, inhabiting temperate 

 and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 



A. Orontium, Linn. Sp. 860 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 290 ; Ach. Rich. 

 Tent. Flor. Abyss, ii. 114; Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 385; Hook, in Flor. Brit, 

 Ind. iv. 253 ; Syme Eng. Bot. t. 954. 



Socotra. On Kadhab plain. B.C.S. n. 350. 



Distrib. Europe, and from the Azores and Canary Islands eastwards 

 through the Mediterranean region, Abyssinia, and Persia to Afghan and 

 northern India. 



Our plants are distinctly pilose at the base. 



5. SCROPHULARIA. 



Scrophularia, Linn. Gen. n. 756 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 937. 



A large genus widely spread in the northern hemisphere, its maximum 

 being reached in the Mediterranean region, and south-west Asia. Few are 

 American. 



S. arguta, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 342 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 305 : 

 Boiss. Flor. Orient, iv. 395 ; Webb Flor. Canar. Ic. t 177. 



S. rostrata, Hochst. in herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. iii. n. 1428. 



Socotra. On the hill slopes. B.C.S. n. 604. Schweinf. 537. 



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