Mimulopsis. | XCVIII, ACANTHACE® (CLARKE). 55 
Leaves 4 in. long, coarsely toothed ; ovary shaggy . 7. M. runssorica. 
Floral leaves exceeding the cymes, numerous —. » 8. MM. Elliotii. 
Tree ; leaf 9 in. long; petiole 8 in. long . . . 9. M. arborescens. 
1. M. Solmsii, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, xviii. 
1868, 677. Leaves up to 34 by 14 in., ovate-lanceolate, toothed, sparingly 
pubescent ; petioles up to 1} in. long. Inflorescence viscid hairy, 
loosely subtrichotomously cymose; pedicels up to } in. long. Calyx- 
segments up to ? in. long, linear, acute, nearly glabrous within. Corolla 
1 in. long, yellow. Pollen ellipsoid. Ovary glabrous, glandular 
towards the top, 10-ovulate.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 388 ; 
Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 301, and in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii, 63, t. 1, fig. 18. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Ghaba Valley, Steudner, 1497 ! 
2. M. Thomsoni, (. 2B. Clarke. Leaves of the foot-long panicle all 
much reduced, subsessile, about 2 by } in. long. Calyx-segments, 
obtuse, sometimes almost spathulate. Corolla 1} in. long ; otherwise as 
Mt. Solmsii—Epiclastopelma glandulosum, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 
114, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 305. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; Ulugnru Mountains, at Buku- 
buku, 4800 ft., Stuhlmann, 8781! Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! 
between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson! 
Twice collected by Thomson with good flowers and frnit, but only a fragment of a 
lower leaf. Capsule 3 in. long, lanceolate, glabrous, 6-8-sveded. 
3. M. spathulata, (. 2. Clarke. Sepals scarcely } in. long, linear, 
shortly and strongly dilated at the tip, otherwise as J/, Solmsi. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : Mau, 8000 ft., Scott-/lliot, 6060 ! 
The above note was taken at Berlin; I cannot find Scott-Elliot’s 6060 in 
England. 
4, M. violacea, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 105. Shrub 12 ft. 
high (Mann). Leaves up to 7 by 33 in., ovate-lanceolate, toothed, 
sometimes doubly toothed or irregularly lobed, sparingly pubescent ; 
petioles 1-3 in. long. Inflorescence viscid-hairy, loosely compound- 
cymose ; pedicels often } in. long, or (in one panicle only of Mann 
2348) much denser with very many flowers and pedicels hardly § in. 
alyx-segments up to 1 (or even 1}) in. long, linear, acute, nearly 
glabrous within. Corolla 1 in. long, pale-violet (Lindaw). Ovary with 
Town glandular scales nearly to the base, and with few or many long 
white Several-celled hairs at the top or extending nearly to the base. 
Capsule 2 in. long, lanceolate, minutely hairy, ultimately glabrate, 
usually perfecting 6-8 seeds.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzent. 
v. 3B. 301, fig. 121, D-H. Jf. bicalewrata, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 
“vil. 106, and in Engi. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 301, fig. 108, D. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Buea, 3000-7800 ft., Preuss, 814! 1056! Cameroon 
hiountains, 7000 ft., Mann, 1260! 1965 ! Fernando Po, 7000 ft., Jann, 2348! 
In ¥. bicalearata the anther of the anticous stamen is said to have hen long: 
Spurred, the other very short-spurred ; but in the authentic example of Lindau, 
