Afromendoncia. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (BURKILL). 7 
1 lin. long; with 5 small teeth. Corolla purplish, nearly included 
within the bracteoles ; tube nearly straight; limb campanulate, with 5 
nearly equal lobes, about 5 lin. long. Anthers oblong, 3 lin. long ; 
filaments glandular-pilose at the base. Style 5 lin. long, bifid at the 
apex. Drupe elliptic-oblong, about 10 lin. jlong—Liraya floribunda, 
Pierre in Bull. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, ii. 340, 342. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: near Libreville, Jolly, 101. 
Only known from the original description, in which it is said to differ from 
Afromendoncia in having pendulous ovules, but the agreement is so close in other 
respects as to suggest that, as Lindau recognises (Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
304), it must be referred here. Mr. Clarke, who has seen a drawing of the plant, 
considers it very near tu A. lindaviana, Gilg. 
3. A. gilgiana, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 1. Stems climbing, 
+-angled, slender, villous-pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous. 
Leaves petiolate, oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate and apiculate, not 
rugose, 13-3 in. long, #-14 in. broad; lateral nerves 5-6 pairs, 
anastomosing near the margin, pilose beneath ; petioles 4-1} in. long, 
villous. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 2 to 4 on the young branches ; 
pedicels 6—9 lin. long, villous with fulvous hairs; bracteoles 2, broadly 
ovate, mucronulate, 5-6 lin. long, villous with fulvous hairs. Calyx 
very short, obscurely lobed. Corolla white; tube ? in. long, 1 lin. 
broad below, 3 lin. broad at apex; lobes rounded, somewhat spreading. 
Anthers 2 lin. long, acute, pilose at the base; filaments short. Style 
? lin, long.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv., 3 B, 290, 291, 
tig. 115, D-M. 
{ Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 439! between Barombi-ba-Mbu 
and Kake, Preuss, 439, 481! 
| Mile Land. British East Africa: Upper Ituri, West of Lake Albert, Stuhlmann. 
| A species with the facies of, and probably referable to, A. gilgiana has been 
collected in Uganda, Scott-#lliott, 7331! The specimens are unfortunately flowerless. 
| 
4. A. phytocrenoides, Gilg ex Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 112. 
A. woody climber, “30 ft. high” (Mann). Stems twining, stout, sub- 
terete, pilose when young, afterwards nearly glabrous. Leaves petiolate, 
broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, subcordate at 
the base, firm, rugose and glabrous above, stellate-pubescent and 
reticulated beneath, 34-64 in. long, 24-44 in. broad ; margin somewhat 
undulate and revolute; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs; petioles 1-1} in. 
long. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 2 to 6 on the young branches ; 
pedicels 4-6 lin. long, villous with long fulvous hairs. Bracteoles 2, 
ovate, acute or cuspidate, 3-1 in. long, villous with long fulvous hairs. 
Calyx cupulate, very short, obscurely crenulate. Corolla-tube slightly 
exceeding the bracteoles ; lobes roundish-oblong, somewhat spreading. 
Anthers linear-oblong, acute or apiculate, 3—4 lin. long, cordate-sagittate 
at/the base ; filaments short. Style slightly exserted, minutely bifurcate 
at the apex.—Oliv. in Ic. Pl. t. 2427. Thunbergia phytocrenoides, 
T. Anders. ex Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 113. 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: River Muni, Jann, 1839! 
