258 MESSRS. T. A. SPRAGUE AND J. HUTCHINSON ON 
4-loculare. Fructus glabri, vix 1 em. diametro aculeis inclusis, aculeis 
uncinatis glabris. 
A slender undershrub, 0:8-1:5 m. high. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
rounded or obtusely cuneate at the base, acute or subacute at the apex, 
3-8 em. long, 1-3°5 em. broad, sparingly pubescent above, more densely 
pubescent below. Inflorescence leafy. Bads very slender, sparingly setulose 
in the upper part, glabrescent in the lower. Horns of the sepals sparingly 
setulose or glabrescent. Stamens 10. Ovary 4-celled. Fruits glabrous, less 
than 1 em. in diameter including the prickles ; prickles uneinate. 
Angola: Huilla ; stony ground in open spaces on Monyno Mt., 1780 m., 
Antunes, 141! under trees, Mounyino, 1760 m., Antunes, 316! 
Apparently allied to T. paradowa, nob., from which it may be distinguished 
by the uncinate prickles. 
25. T. intermedia, De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. V. 1. (1903) 56. 
The following detailed deseription of this little-known species has been 
drawn up from the material collected by Buchanan :— 
Rami graciles, teretes, circiter 2 mm. diametro 30 em. ab apiee, stellato- 
pubescentes, demum subglabri, internodiis 4-7 cm, longis. Folia oblongo- 
lanceolata, 4-8 em. longa, 08-2 em. lata, acuta vel subacuta, denticulato- 
serrata, dentibus 3-6 mm. (sepissime 5 mm.) distantibus, supra pilis simpli- 
cibus paree setulosa, subtus pilis paucis simplicibus et stellatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 4 supra indistinetis subtus prominentibus,  Petioli 4-14 mm. longi, 
stellato-pubescentes, Stipulæ subulate, 4-5 mm. longe, Сута pro nodo 
usque ad 7 ; pedunculi 3-4 mm. longi; bractew subulatæ, 2 2:5 mm. longe, 
ciliate. Sepala linearia, 4-5 mm. longa, 075-0775. mm. lata, extra. inferne 
glabra, apicem versus sparsiuscule stellato-pilosa, cornu 0:5 mm. longo setula 
unica terminato. Petala oblaneeolata, apice rotundata, 4-45 mm. longa, 
11:25 mm. lata, inferne 075. mm. parce pilosa. Gonophorum vix 0:5 mm, 
altum, glandulis transverse oblongis 0°25 mm. longis. Stamina 10 ; filamenta 
3-4 mm. longa. Ovarium subglobosum, 0:75 mm. diametro, 4-loculare ; 
stylus circiter 3 mm. longus. Capsula (immatura tantum visa) globosa, 
aculeis subelabris apice 1-4-spinulatis. 
Plant branched above. Stem stellate-pubescent, soon glabrescent. Leaves 
oblong-laneeolate, 4-8 ст. long, 0*8-2 em. broad, sparingly pilose with 
simple hairs on the upper surface, and with both simple and stellate hairs on 
the lower. Stipules 4-5 mm. long, subulate. Sepals glabrous below, 
sparingly stellate-pilose above, horn terminated by a single bristle. Petals 
rounded at the apex, pilose at the base. Stamens 10. Prickles not broadened 
at the base, with 1-4 terminal spinules. 
Congo Free State: Kisantu, Gillet, 531 (bis)! Nyasaland: without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 216! 614! 
26. T. buettneriacea, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. (1892) 129. 
Plant branched above, over 0*6 m. high. Stem stellate-pubescent. Leaves 
