Poulowilhelmia.] ——-XCVIM1. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 53 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 
4024! on hills, Powell! and without precise locality, Don! Winwood Reade! Gold 
Coast, Hasmon! Ashanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 181! Volta Basin ; 
between Bame and Kpeve, Krause! Cameroous: Yaunde, 2500 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 
The plant from Sugarloaf Mountain has irregular acute lobes 4-4 in. deep towards the 
base of the leaves ; the Cameroon plact has crenate hardly acutely toothed leaves ; there 
1s no difference in hairiness.—Dr, Easmon notes “ Odour celery-like, used to poison fish. 
2. P. togoensis, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 105. Stems stout, 
viscid-hairy upwards. Calyx exceeding } in. long. Capsule ? in. long, 
usually perfecting 12-16 seeds ; otherwise as P. polysperma.—Lindau 
m Engl. & Pranti, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 300. P. speciosa, N. E. Brown 
in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 749, fig. 106, exclud. syn., scarcely of 
Hochst. 
Upper Guinea. Togoland: Bismarckburg, Kling, 192! Segge Stream, 7300 ft., 
Bittner, 342 | Lagos, Millen, 4! Yoruba: Ikerim, Jillson! Niger Territory : Cross 
River, Johnston! 
The wild specimen collected by H. H. Johnston looks separable from P. polysperma ; 
but the plant grown at Kew (from seeds taken off H. H. Johnston’s specimen) is much 
more glabrous, and hardly differs from P. polysperma, but by the rather longer capsule. 
3. P. speciosa, Hochst. in Flora 1844, Beibl. 5. Stem quadran - 
gular, erect, hairy upwards. Leaves long-petioled ; blade 5-6 in. long, 
ovate, unequally coarsely toothed, nearly glabrous or somewhat hairy 
beneath. Inflorescence spicate, leafy, with false whorls of many flowers ; 
flowers sub-sessile on short dichotomous axillary peduncles ; bracteoles 2, 
very small, deciduous ; pedicels glandular-pubescent. Sepals (in fruit), 
In. long, linear-oblong, united for $ their length, glandular-pubescent 
without, white hairy within. Corolla-tube exceeding | in. long, linear. 
Capsule 3 by +, in., glabrous, 4-6-seeded at the top and with sterile 
ovules below > Seeds 54, in. in diam., discoid, thin, nearly glabrous on the 
faces, with hygroscopic hairs on the margin.—Nees in DC, Prod. xi. 208 ; 
Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 300, fig. 110, H. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 
4. P. Sclerochiton, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb, xvii. 105. Calyx 
scarcely 4 in. long, divided nearly to the base. Corolla-tube 1 in. long. 
Capsule less than $ in. long, perfecting 4 seeds in the upper part; 
otherwise as P. polysperma—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 
3B. 300. Ruellia Sclerochiton, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 7. 
Eremomastax crossandriflora, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 8, in Engl. 
© Prantl, Pflanzenf, iv. 3B, 297, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367, 
Upper Guinea, Cameroon Mountains, Jann, 1259 partly ! . . 
he th Central, Congo Free State: Niamniam ; by the River Assika, Schwein- 
, 3257! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe ; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 4013. f 
The corolla in Eremomastax is as in other Panowilhelmias. The picture o 
emomastax is correct, except that it shows no hairs. 
5. P, nobilis, (. B. Clarke. Shrub 4-5 ft. high (@. Mann); 
branches glabrous or glandular-hairy upwards. Leaves up to 34 by 
