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Mimulopsis. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 57 
9. M. arborescens, C’. B. Clarke. Tree; branches long, straggling 
(Scott-Elliot) ; leaf 9 by 6 in., cordate ovate-lanceolate, sparingly hairy, 
irregularly coarsely toothed ; petiole 8} in. long. Panicle-branches 
6 by 2 in. ; viscid-hairy at the top; pedicels } in. long; floral leaves 
3-1} in. long, elliptic, entire, obtuse, densely glandular-hairy, some- 
what corolloid, brown-scarious. Calyx-segments 1 by J; in., glandular 
pubescent. Corolla 1} in. long; segments 5, ovate, subequal, con- 
torted in bud; tube in lower half cylindric, hardly inflated. Stamens 
(with ellipsoid pollen) of the genus. Ovary nearly glabrous, 6-ovuled, 
and style of the genus. Capsule 1} in. long, stalked, glabrous. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori; Toru Dist., at Kivata, Scott- 
Elliot, 7666 ! 
13. PHYSACANTHUS, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 1085, 
Calyx long-tubular, 5-angular ; teeth 5, short, triangular-mucronate. 
Corolla 1-2 in. long ; tube linear, only slightly inflated, jj in. in diam. 
close to the top; lobes 5, obovate, subequal, contorted in bud. Stamens 
4, subsimilar ; connective at top bifid, one branch bearing a muticous 
cell, the other a linear shaggy rudiment; pollen round-ellipsoid, longi- 
tudinally 8~-12-ribbed. Style hairy upwards; branches 2, short, 
unequal, Ovary glabrous; ovules about 4 in each cell. Capsule 
cylindric or oblong-flattened, perfecting probably more than 4 seeds ; 
young seeds discoid with processes on the margin.—Stems 8~2+ in. 
ong, simple, woody, pubescent. Leaves petioled, elliptic, crenate, 
hairy, Flowers 1-5 in an apparently terminal cluster; bracteoles 
very small, 
._ The examples of G. Mann are excellent ; but, in every ripe capsule opened, there 
18 the case of a chrysalis and the seeds are destroyed. The “ processes” on the margins 
of the young seeds would develop either into tubercles or elastic hairs. 
pecies 2, endemic in Tropical West Africa. 
Calyx oblong, in fruit inflated . . . . . . 1. P. inflatus, 
Calyx in fruit 3 in. broad, cylindric, scarcely inflated . . 2. P. cylindricus. 
_ iP. inflatus, (. B. Clarke. Stems 1-2 ft. high. Leaves up to 
Y by 2 in, hirsute, tip triangular, base narrowed ; petiole }—1 in. long. 
racteoles 1-1 in. long, linear. Calyx (young) 1 in. long, subcylindric, 
axly hairy, (fruiting) up to 1} by 4 in., glabrate, base truncate; seg- 
ments Scarcely } in. long. Corolla-tube up to 1} in. Jong ; lobes 3% in. 
ong, Spreading, mouth of tube shaggy. Style branches oblong, subequal. 
“psule 1 in. long, cylindric or oblong (as seen injured by grubs). 
Seeltia batangana, Joh, Braun & K. Schum. in Mittheil. Deutsch 
eutzg. li. (1889) 173, Lankesteria batangana, Lindau in Engl. 
Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 311. Haselhoffia leucophthalma, Lindau in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 305, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 316. 
Brana er Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 987! Batanga, Bates, 139 ! 
Lower Guinea, Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1623 ! . . 
The pollen will not do to Nodketeia, where Lindau formerly allocated this species. 
