Brillantaisia. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (BURKILL), 41 
11. B. nitens, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 102. Stem reaching 
8 ft. in height, glabrous below. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate or 
abruptly narrowed into the winged petiole, very acuminate above, 
regularly serrate on the margins, sprinkled with short hairs on both 
surfaces. Inflorescence a narrow panicle, the lateral branches scarcely 
1 in. long, densely covered with long glandular hairs, Calyx-segments 
linear, the posterior the longest and rather broader towards its apex, 
glandular-pubescent. Corolla-tube 5 lin. long; lips 1 in. long, the 
upper pilose outside, purple. Staminodes glandular. Ovary with 
14-16 ovules in each cell. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 435! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 
520! West of Buea, 6000 ft., Preuss, 847 ! 
A well marked species. 
12. B. salviifiora, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 101, Stem glabrous 
below. Leaves ovate, subcordate or narrowed into the more or less 
winged petiole, acuminate, with a few hairs on either surface, the 
margin coarsely, and on the smaller leaves more or less regularly, den- 
tate; the wing of the petiole almost without teeth. Inflorescence a 
lax panicle, glandular-pubescent. Calyx-segments linear ; the posterior 
the longest and broadest, glandular-pubescent. Corolla-tube +4 lin. long; 
lips 7-9 lin. long, the upper pilose outside, Staminodes slightly glandu- 
lar, with an appendix to the anther. Capsule 8 lin. long, pubescent, 
with 12-14 seeds to each valve. 
Upper Guinea. Togoland: Bismarckburg, Biitiner, 341 ; Ashanti, Assin-Yan- 
Coomassie, Cummins, 245! Sierra Leone : forty-five to seventy miles north-east from 
the coast, Garrett ! 
To this species apparently belongs that mentioned by Bowdich (Mission to Ashantee, 
374), of which a poor specimen is preserved at the British Museum. 
13. B. leonensis, Burkill. Stem 1-4 ft. high, glabrous below. 
Leaves broadly ovate, cordate or rounded below, shortly acuminate 
above, margin regularly serrate, clad on both surfaces with soft 
white hairs; petiole winged above, and especially while young 
densely covered with hairs on the upper side. Inflorescence a some- 
what close panicle, glandular-pubescent. Calyx-segments linear, glandu- 
lar-pubescent, the upper longest and somewhat broadened towards the 
apex. Corolla-tube 4 lin. long; lips 7~10 lin. long, the upper with 
hairs on the outside, the lower with three short teeth. Staminodes 
glandular, Capsule 1 in. long, glandular-pubescent, with about 16 seeds 
to each valve.—Z. owariensis, Hook. (partly), Bot. Mag. t. 4717, 
figs. land 2. B. Lamium, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 477 (partly). 
, Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Winwood Reade! on the way to Regent, 
Scott-EUiot, 39904! and without precise locality, Don? 
l4. B, patula, 7’. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 21. Stem stout, 
6-8 ft. in height, 4—6 in. in circumference at the base (Grant). Leaves 
ovate to elliptic, 12 in. long, 8 in. wide, slightly acuminate at the 
apex, rounded towards the base, and then prolonged downward in broa : 
wings almost or quite to the base of the petiole; margin coarsely serrate ; 
