242 
SCROPHTJLAEIACE^:. 
[ j Striga . 
Seeds numerous, minute. — More or less parasitic herbs, turning black 
when dried, with entire alternate narrow leaves, and solitary flowers 
sessile in their axils. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 16. 
1. S. hirsuta, Lour. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 502. Annual, erect, 
much-branched scabrid-pilose, J-lft. high. Leaves except the lowest 
alternate, linear-ligulate, entire, |-1£ in. Mowers sessile in the axils 
of the leaves to below the middle of the stem. Calyx £ in. long ; tube 
oblong, with 10 strong ribs and 5 linear teeth shorter than the tube. 
Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, glandular ; limb usually bright 
scarlet, sometimes yellow, -g~i in. broad. Capsule black, as long as the 
calyx-tube. Campuleia coccinea, Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 203 ; Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 244. 
Mauritius, a common weed in cultivated fields, especially of maize, regarded by 
Bojer as an introduced species. Seychelles, common in Mahe and Praslin in dry 
soils. Through the tropics of the Old World. 
9. RADAMJEA, Benth. 
Calyx with a funnel-shaped tube and 5 equal lanceolate teeth. 
Corolla with an exserted funnel-shaped tube and a bilabiate limb, with 
5 subequal round lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; filaments 
short. Ovary ovoid ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Capsule small, 
ovoid. Seeds numerous. — Shrubby perennials, with small opposite 
entire leaves and axillary flowers. Distrib. Species 2, the other a 
plant of Madagascar. 
\. R. prostrata, Benth. in DC. Prod . x. 509, 597. A much- 
branched diffuse perennial, about a foot high, with rigid slender minutely 
pilose stems. Leaves turning black when dried, oblong, acute, entire, 
short-petioled, coriaceous, cuneate at the base, - 1 in. long. Flowers 
few, solitary in the axils of the leaves, on very short pedicels. Calyx J 
in. long, narrowed to the base ; teeth half as long as the tube. Corolla 
rose-red, twice the length of the calyx. Centranthera prostrata, 
Bojer, Hort. Maur. 246. 
Seychelles, Bojer. Also Isle of Galega. 
Order LXXII* CYRTANDRACEiE. 
Bcea Commersoni, R. Br., given in DeCandolle’s Prodromus and other works as a 
plant of the Seychelles on the supposition that it was gathered by Commerson in the 
island of Praslin, seems to have been really found at Port Praslin, in New Ireland in 
Polynesia, as it has been recently refound in the same vicinity by Mr. C. Walter. 
A full account by Dr. Trimen of the circumstances of the case will be found in the 
Proceedings of the Linnean Society, vol. xv. p. 163, so that this order has no claim to 
a place in our flora. % 
Order LXXIII. LENTIBULARIACE^. 
Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. Calyx with a very short tube, 
and bilabiate limb, with entire or toothed lobes. Corolla bilabiate, 
personate or ringent. Stamens 2, hvpogynous or epipetalous ; filaments 
