Mellera. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEZ (CLARKE). 51 
acuminate, much toothed, sparingly hairy; petioles J-14 in. long. 
Inflorescence apparently terminal, up to 4 by 14 in., very hairy, floral 
leaves passing upwards into bracts 3 in. long, ovate, nearly sessile. 
Calyx (in fruit) up to 3 in. long, cystoliths obscure or 0. Corolla hairy, 
middle lobe of anticous lip } by 1 in., transversely marked and with 
many strong 1-celled down-pointing yellow hairs. Ovary glabrous, with 
4 ovules in each cell.—Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 63, t. 1, fig. 12, in 
pngl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 297, and in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 
Nile Land. East side of Lake Albert Edward Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 8067 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Usambara, Umba Valley, Smith, 
Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique (ex Lindau); Morambala Mountain, Waller ! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 791! Manganja 
Hills, at Magomero, Meller ! Shibisa (Chikwawa) to Tshinmuze, 2000-4000 tt., Kirk, 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 796 ! 
2. M. nyassana, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1894, 133. Viscid, 
with many gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 3 by 1} in., elliptic, crenate. 
Inflorescence 6 by 3 in., lax, of lateral compound cymes ; flowers mostly 
t in. apart ; bracteoles 1-1} in. long, linear-spathulate. Sepals }-1 in. 
long, linear-spathulate. Corolla 14 in. long, mouth of tube nearly 
fin. indiam. Anther-cells long-spurred. Capsule 3 in. long, narrow- 
oblong, often 12-seeded.—Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost- Afr. C. 367. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Fort Hill, 3000-6000 ft., 
Whyte! Lake Nyasa ; Lukoma (Likoma Island ?), Bellingham ! 
3. M. submutica, C. 3B. Clarke. Branches hairy or woolly, finally 
glabrate. Leaves 34 by 2 in., ovate, toothed, hairy, base often cordate ; 
petiole 1-24 in. long. Cymes axillary, short, dense, crowded, often 
running into a quasi-terminal panicle, 6 by 14 in.; bract 3 in. long, 
obovate ; bracteoles nearly 4 in. long, linear-spathulate. Calyx 3 in. 
long, divided to the base, hairy ; lobes subequal, linear, spathulate at 
the tip. Corolla 1 in. long, blue (Buchanan) ; tube gradually dilated 
upwards ; mouth very oblique, 2-lipped; 2 posticous segments longer, 
middle anticous segment short, broad, with a few yellow deflexed 
: Filaments hairy ; anthers hardly apiculate at the base (rarely a 
‘ninute spur is seen); pollen globose, many-ribbed. Ovary glandular- 
hairy towards the top; 5-6 ovules in each cell; style with one linear 
branch, the other suppressed.—Pseudobarleria Lindaut, Dewévre 1n 
Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxiii. 104. 
Mozamb, Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan, 
3! Dewevre, Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Plateau 4000-7000 ft.. 
Vhyte! Tanganyika Plateau, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte! Manganja Hills, Meller! 
Imperfectly known Species. 
4. M. parvifolia, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 314. Stem nearly 
glabrous, hairy at the tip and nodes. Leaves 1 by } in., ovate, narr owed 
at the base, glabrous, petioled. Flowers in the upper axils capitate ; 
racteoles lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx } in. long: 
