24 XCVIII. ACANTHACES (BURKILL). [Thunbergia. 
Stamens with a long mucro above and with short spurs to each lobe. 
Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. Unripe capsule with 
very short hairs and a long beak. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; upper part of Schi (Msbi?) 
Mountains, Holst, 2131 
I have seen a leaf and a young froit with its bracteoles. ‘The rest of the description 
is quoted from Engler’s Jahrbiicber. 
44, T. Schweinfurthii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 6. An erect 
herb. Stem strigose, densely hairy at the nodes, striate when dry. 
Leaves on short petioles about 2 lin. long, the leaf-blade 3-nerved, 
narrowly lanceolate, 2} in. long, 7 lin. broad, shortly mucronate above, 
narrowed and hastate below, the upper surface strigose, the lower 
covered with a tawny pubescence. Flowers on peduncles about half 
as long as the leaves; bracteoles ovate, lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, 
white with green reticulations, strigose on the back. Calyx cupular. 
Corolla 1} in. long; lobes about 2 lin. long. Stamens mucronate, 
slightly bearded below, one anther-lobe of the ventral pair with a 
hook at its base. Stigma triangular, the lateral angles barbellate, 
the ventral margin scarcely notched, the dorsal angle slightly hairy, 
its apex rounded. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; near the Seriba of Kurshook Ali, 
Schiceinfurth, 15101 
This species is very closely allied to 7. mollis. 
45, T. lathyroides, Burkill. Stem erect, glabrous, suleate when 
dry. Leaves sessile, hastate, entire, mucronate at the apex and also 
in the auricles, 2 in. long, } in. broad, glabrous, Flowers on glabrous 
peduncles about 14 in. long; bracteoles lanceolate, blunt, glabrous, 
5-nerved. Calyx truncate. Corolla-tube nearly 1} in. long; lobes 
about 4 in. long. Anthers of the ventral pair of stamens with a 
short spur at the base of one lobe, all mucronate above and pilose 
below. Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, at about 5250 ft. 
Carson, 4! Nutt! Scott-Elliot, 8269 ! , , ut 5250 ft, 
46, T. angolensis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 195. Stem erect, 
covered with a thick felt of white hairs. Leaves obovate, sessile, entire 
1} in. long, } in. broad, covered like the stem with white hairs on both 
surfaces. Flowers on peduncles about 1 in. long; bracteoles ovate 
obtuse, 1 in. long, felted outside, glabrous within. Calyx glabrous : 
teeth triangular. Corolla-tube 1} in. long; lobes } in. long, purple. 
Anthers with a long mucro above, rounded below, and the lower pair 
with a curved spur. Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata. in thick 
Welocitsch, 5037! between Mumpulla and Nene, Welwitsch, 5038 ! pata in thickets 
47. T. oblongifolia, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 125, t. 123. 
Stem erect, pilose or glabrescent on the internodes, sulcate when dry. 
Leaves sessile, obovate or somewhat spathulate, obtuse above, clad on 
