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LXXXVII. SCROPHULARINEJL 
\ Buchner a. 
part often quite glabrous. Leaves all narrow and mostly narrow-linear and 
acute. Flowers yellowish-brown, smaller than in B. linearis and B. 
urticifolia, but otherwise similar, the corolla glabrous outside, the tube not 2 
lines long. — Benth in DC. Prod. x. 497. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. ; Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; 
Facing Island, R. Brown. 
5. B. gracilis (slender), R. Br. Prod. 437 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 515. 
Very near B. ramosissima , with the same somewhat hoary indumentum and 
narrow obtuse leaves, but the stem slender, erect, usually simple or branching at 
the base only, and the corolla-tube glabrous outside or very rarely sprinkled with 
a few hairs at the top of the tube. — Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 497. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay and Stanthorpe. 
6. B. ramosissima (much-branched), R. Br. Prod. 438 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
iv. 515. Erect or decumbent at the base, more branching than the other species 
and usually more hoary with a short scabrous pubescence, sometimes under Gin. 
but often attaining 1ft. or more. Lower leaves oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a 
short petiole, f to l|in. long ; upper ones linear but almost always obtuse, and 
all usually quite entire. Bracts and bracteoles usually narrow and short. Calyx 
2 to 3 lines long with acute teeth. Corolla-tube more or less exserted, always 
pubescent or hispid outside, especially at the top, the lobes narrow, about in- 
line long. Capsule about as long as the calyx. — Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 496. 
Hab.: Thirsty Sound, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Gracemere and near Rockhampton, 
Bowman. 
Var. ? parviflora. Corolla much smaller, slightly pubescent outside. — B. pubescens, Benth. in 
DC. Prod. x. 496. — Endeavour River, A. Cunningham. 
24. STRIGA, Lour. 
(Plant bearing short stiff hairs.) 
Calyx tubular-campanulate, with prominent nerves, 5-toothed or 5-lobed. 
Corolla-tube slender, abruptly bent at or above the middle, the limb 2-lipped, the 
upper lip emarginate or 2-lobed, innermost in the bud, the lower 3-lobed. 
Stamens 4, in pairs, included in the tube ; anthers vertical, 1 -celled. Style 
club-shaped at the top, entire. Capsule straight, not acuminate, opening 
loculicidally in 2 valves. — Rigid erect annuals, usually scabrous and drying 
black. Lower leaves opposite, upper ones alternate, sometimes, in species not 
Australian, all reduced to small scales. Flowers sessile, usually forming 
terminal interrupted spikes. 
A genus of several species, dispersed over the tropical regions of the Old World, and all 
probably parasites on roots. 
Calyx with 10 equally prominent ribs 1. S. hirsuta: 
Calyx with 5 prominent ribs, smooth betweeen them or rarely here and 
there an obscure vein. 
Corolla scarcely Jin. long, the upper lip more than half as long as the 
lower 2. S. parviflora. 
Corolla nearly or fully Jin. long, the upper lip less than half as long as 
the lower 3. S. curviflora. 
1. S. hirsuta (hairy), Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 502 ; FI. Austr. iv. 516. An 
erect, scabrous or pubescent, simple or slightly branched annual, usually about 
6in. high, and not always drying so black as the other species. Leaves linear 
or the lower ones lanceolate. Flowers yellow red or white, in terminal 
interrupted spikes, the lower ones distant. Calyx variable in size, usually 2 
to 2£ lines long, with 10 very prominent scabrous or hispid nerves, one of them 
