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leaves with few or no spines, narrow outer bracts, and equally 
long anticous and posticous calyx-lobes. 
ScuERoonrroN Horsti, C. B. Clarke, in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
v. 111. 
In damp sandy soil by side of Lake Victoria Nyanza at 
Musozi. Fl. January, 81. 
Distrib. Mozambique District. 
CROSSANDRA GUINEENSIS, Nees, in DC. Prod. xi. 281. 
Near mouth of the Kagera. Fl. February, 554. 
Distrib. Upper and Lower Guinea. 
Sryasasta: Acanthacearum e tribu Justiciearum genus novum. 
(PI. 2.) 
Calyx 5-partitus, lobis angustis inter se szqualibus. Corolle 
tubus mediocriter elongatus, superne paullulum amplificatus ; 
limbus 2-labiatus, labio antico 3-lobo quam posticum bifidum 
parum breviore. Stamina 4, didyuama, subinclusa, supra medium 
tubum inserta; filamenta basi dilatata ibique brevissime per 
paria connata; anthere 2-loculares, loculis inter se :qualibus 
basi mucronulatis alio paullo altius affixo. Pollinis grana iis 
Asystasie similia (Rahmenpollen) Stylus apice obtusus. Ovula 
quoque in loculo 2. Capsula anguste ovoidea, inferne in stipitem 
cylindrieum contracta. Semina 2-4, complanata, suborbiculata, 
eximie rugosa.—Folia normalia. Flores breviter pedicellati, in 
panicula terminali thyrsoidea digesti. Bracteæ bracteoleque 
parve. 
S. AFRICANA, sp. unica. (Zsochoriste africana, S. Moore, in Journ. 
Bot. xviii. (1880) 309. Asystasia africana, C. B. Clarke, in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 134.) 
Angola: Welwitsch, 5073, 5078, 5079. 
Var. PARVIFLORA, var. nov. Corolle summum 1'3 em. long. ; 
harum tubus 0°6 cm., labium posticum 0°7 em., neenon 
lobum anticum 0°55 cm. long. 
Hab. Shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza at Musozi. Fl. 
January, 54. 
Welwitsch noted the type as “herba 2—-3-pedalis," whereas 
Dr. Bagshawe describes the var. parviflora as “a straggling 
shrub." In spite of this difference in habit, except for difference 
in size of the flowers, the two seem to agree absolutely. 
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