260 MESSRS. T. A. SPRAGUE AND J. HUTCHINSON ON 
An erect, much-branched shrub. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or 
ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate at the base, acute, 6-12 cm. long, 
1:5-6 em. broad, shortly stellate-pubescent оп both surfaces, more sparingly 
on the upper. Sepals about 10 mm. long, horn 0°5 mm. long. Stamens 10. 
Ovary 4-5-celled. Fruit 8-10 mm. in diameter including the prickles, 
prickles short and rather stout, densely pilose. 
Abyssinia : on mountains near Lake Amba, 1900 m., and on Mt. Scholoda, 
2000 m., Schimper (1863-8), 853! Mount Scholoda, Schimper (sect. 2) 
397! sm: all shrub near Djeladjeranne, Schimper (sect. 3), 1413! 
29. T. orthacantha, Welw. ex Mast. in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 258 (1868) ; 
Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. i. 99 (1896). 
Possibly only a form of T. tomentosa, from which it seems to differ in little 
but the indumentum and shape of the leaves (see key). 
Angola: Golunga Alto; in dense thickets of primitive woods and amongst 
Pennisetum along the banks of the Quibolo stream, near Sange, Welwitsch, 
1415! Pungo Andongo ; at the bushy margins of woods, along the banks 
of the river Luxillo, Welwitsch, 1416 ! 
A specimen collected in Damaraland by T. G. Een (Brit. Mus.) seems to 
belong here. 
30. T. tomentosa, Doj. Hort. Maurit. 43, nomen (1837); et in Douton, 
Douzième Карр. Ann. NA (1842) 19; Mast. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. i. 394 (1874); Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. A. 22, 111 (1895); 
К. Schum. in Engl. Le с. C. 265. 
A shrub, 3 m. high or less. Leaves undivided or the lower ones slightly 
tricuspidate, mostly ovate, subcordate or cordate at the base, acute, 5-12 em. 
long, 2°5-7 em. broad, tomentose, especially on the lower surface. Sepals 
4:5-8:5 mm. long, horn 02-05 mm. long. Stamens 8-10. Ovary 4-celled. 
Fruit 1-1:5 em. in diameter including the prickles ; prickles slender, pilose 
or nearly glabrous. 
From the Upper Oubangui through Mittuland to Mombasa south to the 
Shire Highlands and Angola :— 
Upper Oubangui; Krébdjé (Ft. Бае), Chevalier, 5656! Balidga 
Country ; Dar Banda, Chevalier, 6692! Mittuland ; Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 
2812! Uganda; Sibu, Nandi Country, James! between Nandi and Mumias, 
1300-1800 m., Whyte! 5th march from Lubwas, Whyte! Busoga Gardens, 
Whyte! British East Africa ; Mombasa, Wakefield! Bojer! Msilala, Han- 
nington! German East Africa ; Kilimanjaro, Marangu, everywhere in the 
bush, 1500-1900 m., Volkens, 1403! forest of Ngongongare, Uhlig, 520! 
Sakarre, on sunny borders of woods, up to 1300 m., Busse, 347 ! Usambara ; 
among bracken, 1900 m., Buchwald, 374! Kwai, 1600 m., Albers, 153! at 
1800 m., Albers, 253! Mlalo, on the slopes of low hills, olst, 32! 644! 
Amani, on the way to the Sigi valley, Braun in Bot. Inst. Aman, 777 | 
