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lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5-8 em. long, 1-3 em. broad, sparingly pilose 
on both surfaces ; hairs on the upper surface simple or both simple and stellate, 
those on the lower surface mixed or mostly stellate. Stipules 1-2 mm. long. 
Sepals stellate-pubescent outside, horn terminated by a single bristle. Petals 
emarginate, puberulous at the base. Stamens 10. Prickles glabrescent, 
much broadened at the base, terminated by 1-4 spinules. 
Djurland; Great Seriba Ghattas, Selweinfurth, 2458! Bongoland : 
Gurfala, Schweinfurth, 2144. 
See PI. 17. fig. 4, fruit and prickle. 
27. T. dubia, De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. V. i. (1903) 54. 
Barter’s specimen enables us to give a more detailed description of this 
interesting species, which was originally described from incomplete material. 
Frutex 1-1:3 m. altus, ramis teretibus circiter 3 mm. diametro longe 
stellato-pubescentibus. Folia lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, 3-9 em. longa, 
0*6—3:5 ош. lata, acuta, basi subeuneata, serrata, dentibus setiferis 2-4 mm. 
distantibus, supra pilis simplicibus (nervis exceptis), subtus pilis stellatis et 
simplicibus pubescentia, nervis utrinque 4-6 supra prominulis subtus promi- 
nentibus. Petioli 3-18 mm. longi, subtomentosi.  Stipulæ e basi ovato- 
lanceolata longe aeuminatze, 4 mm. longæ, acumine 2 mm. longo incluso, basi 
1 mm. Іабе. Inflorescentia e dichasis trifloris 5 constans. Pedunculi circiter 
4 mm. longi; bractee subulatæ, 2-3 mm. longæ, ciliate’; pedicelli 2-3 mm. 
longi. Sepala lineari-oblonga, 7 mm. longa, basi 0*75 mm. lata, extra longe 
stellato-pilosa, cornu 0'7 mm. longo longisetuloso. Petala oblanceolata, 
apice rotundata, 5 mm. longa, supra medium 1:5 mm. lata, basi per 0-5 mm. 
stellato-pilosa. Gonophorum 0°75 mm. altum, glandulis suborbieularibus 
0:25 mm. diametro. Stamina 8-12, filamentis 5 mm. longis. | Ovarium 
depresso-globosum, 0°75 mm. diametro, 4-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis. Capsula 
(immatura tantum visa) globosa, aculeis pilosis spinulis 1—5 terminatis. 
Togoland: Sokode Farm, Schroeder, 88! mountain savannah, 400 m., 
near Sokode, Schroeder, 112! Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1550! Congo Free 
State: Kisantu, Gillet! German East Africa: Usindja ; Bugando, Stuhl- 
mann, 3922 | 
Plant branched above, 1-1:3 m. high. Stem stellate-hirsute. Leaves 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 8—9 em. long, 0:6—3:5 em. broad, hairs on the 
upper surface simple (exeept on the nerves), on the lower both stellate and 
simple. Sepals fulvous-hirsute with stellate hairs, Petals oblanceolate. 
Prickles pilose, terminated by 1-5 spinules. 
Var. tomentosa, nob. ; foliis subtus tomentosis a typo recedit. 
Togoland : Bismarckburg, on the Jegge Stream, Büttner, 194! 
28. T. abyssinica, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. (1892) 126, et in Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 298; Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. A. iii. 
(1895) ; C. 265. 
T. Vahlii, A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 83 (1847), non Poir, 
