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Distribution : — Nubia, Eritrea, Somaliland, Socotra, Arabia. 
3. Aliticliaris linearis Hochst. ex Asehers. in Monatsber. Akad. 
Wiss. Berl. (1866) 882; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. (1875) 9; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. I, 756 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. IV, 250; Boiss. 
FI. Or. IV, 423; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma VIII, 136; This.- 
Dyer FI. trop. Afr. IV, sect. 2, 276 ; Cooke FI. Romb. Pres. II, 281. 
Anticharis arabica Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. X, 347 ; A. 
Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 119 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 98, not of 
Endl. 
Doranthera linearis Benth. in DC. Prodr. X, 347 ; Oliver in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XXIX, 120 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 241. 
Distemon angustifolius Ehrenb. et Hempr. ex Asehers. 1. c. 883. 
Gerardiopsis Fischeri Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 359, et in Engl. Jahrb. 
vol. 23, 507. 
Description : — A much-branched, erect, glandular-pubescent annual, 
a few inches to more than 1 foot high, turning black in drying. Leaves 
linear, acute, 1 — If by | inch, sessile, entire, glandular-hairy or 
nearly glabrous. 
Pedicels J — § inch long, solitary, filiform, with 2 small linear bracts 
| inch long at or near the middle. Calyx inch long, divided to 
the base ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, glandular hairy. Corolla 
pale-parple, veined, divided scarcely J-way down; lobes 5, oblong, 
obtuse. Anthers versatile, curved, the segments unequal. Style 
glabrous. 
Capsules J inch long, ovoid, acuminate, pubescent, veined. Seeds ^ 
inch long, oblong, truncate, longitudinally striately ribbed. 
Locality : — Neighbourhood of Aden (Hunter). 
Distribution Bornu, Senegambia, Nubia, Kordofan, Eritrea, 
Abyssinia, German East Africa, Angola, Cape Verd Islands, Egypt, 
Arabia, Sind, Punjab. 
pis i- ?•••;, 1-J .. 
4. Lindenbergia Lelim. 
Annual or perennial herbs, hard at the base, rarely undershruhs, 
decumbent or ascending, villous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves 
opposite or the upper alternate, dentate. 
Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or in terminal 
spikes or racemes ; bracts foliaceous; bracteoles 0. Calyx 5-fid, cam- 
panulate. Corolla bilabiate ; tube cylindric ; posticous lip inside, short, 
broad, emarginate or 2-lobed, erect, spreading; anticous lip larger, 3- 
