20 XCVIIly ACANTHACEZ (BURKILL). [Thunbergia ‘ 
30. T.. cynanchifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 475. Stem 
slender, climbing, pilose or glabrous. Leaves ovate, sagittate or 
cordate, and with two angles near the base on each side, entire, or 
almost so, mucronate at the apex, glabrous or sparingly hairy above, 
7-nerved, reaching 3 in. in length and 1# broad; petiole 1 in. long. 
Flowers on short peduncles # in. long; bracteoles 5-6 lin. long, 
lanceolate, pilose, acuminate. Calyx short, with about 8 ovate, very 
hairy teeth. Corolla-tube 4 in. long; lobes } in. long, white. Anthers 
each with 2 spurs at the base, glabrous, mucronate above. Stigma 
2-lipped; the lips nearly equal, folded downwards so that the upper 
envelopes the lower, broad and acutely angled, the upper slightly 
retuse and mucronate, and also barbellate on the back, the lower 
deeply bifid. Capsule 7 lin. long, pubescent ; seeds rugose. 
Upper Guinea. River Quorra (Niger), Vogel, 7! Niger Delta; Nun River, 
Vogel, 58! Cameroons: Rio del Rey, Johnston! Batanga, in bush, Bates, 126! 
31. T. armipotens, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 195. Stem 
moderately thin, decumbent, pilose. Leaves rather firm, lanceolate, 
hastate or subcordate at the base, acute at the apex, 5-nerved, more 
or less scabrid, upwards of 2 in. long and 7 lin. broad; petioles } in. 
long. Flowers on pilose peduncles 14 in. long; bracteoles ovate, at 
flowering 8 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, scabrid-pilose outside. Calyx-lobes 
short, deltoid. Corolla-tube 5 lin. long; lobes 2-3 lin. long, blue. 
Authers mucronate above, with a spur to each lobe below and slightly 
hairy. Stigma with 2 equal lips, which are rounded above and acutely 
angled at the sides. Capsule ? in. long. Seeds papillose.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 387. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Empalanca, in bush, Welwitsch, 5026! 
Lopolla, Welwitsch, 5027 ! 
32. T. fragrans, Roxb. Corom. Pl. i. 47, t. 67. Stem slender, 
climbing, sparingly hairy. Leaves ovate, cordate or rounded at the 
base, acute or acuminate above, hairy when young, 2-3 in. long, 
$-14 in. broad ; petiole 3-14 in. long. Flowers on peduncles 1-3 in. 
long; bracteoles falcate-oblong, somewhat acute, hairy. Calyx-teeth 
vather short, nearly glabrous. Corolla-tube 7-1} in. long; lobes white. 
Anthers acute above, sagittate but without spurs, glabrous. Stigma 
with two equal lips. Capsule puberulous (often glabrous in Indian 
specimens), #—-lin. long. Seedsrugose.—Bot. Mag. t. 1881; Neesin DC. 
Prod. xi. 57. 7. levis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii.77: Nees in DC. 
Prod. xi. 56. 7. fragrans var. levis, C. B. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind, iv. 391, 
7’. javanica, Geertn. f. Fruct, iii. t. 183; Nees in DC. Prod. xi.56. 7 scan- 
dens, Pers. Syn. ii. 179. 7Z'.volubilis, Pers. Syn. 11. 179 ; Nees in DC. Prod. 
xi. 59. 7. angustifolia, Ham, ex Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 78; 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 56. 7. Roxburghia, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
iii. 78; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 58. 7’. subsagittata, Blanco, FI). Fil. 518. 
T. arnhemica, F. Muell. Frag. Phyt. Austr. ix. 73. Meyenia longiflora, 
Benth. ex Hohenack. in Flora, 1849, 558. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4141s. 
