76 XCVIII. ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). [ Dyschoriste. 
Upper Guinea. North Bank of the River Gambia, Ozanne, 8! Cameroons; 
4000 ft., Passarge, 1214! 
The calyx is often minutely pedicellate above the bracteoles; and there is seen 
sometimes a shoot from the axil of a bracteole. 
13. D. capricornis, C. B. Clarke. Glandular-pubescent ; branchlets 
woody. Leaves }-} by 4-tin., obtuse, nearly sessile. Cymes axillary, 
dense, 3-8-flowered ; bracteoles 1, in. long, linear. Calyx 4 in. long, 
divided less than 4 way down, glandular-pubescent without, white-hairy 
within ; cystoliths hardly prominent ; teeth lanceolate, aristate. Corolla 
3 in. long; linear-cylindric portion of tube { in. long. Stamens, pollen, 
pistil, ovules, of the genus. 
South-West Africa. South lat. 23°, Chapman & Baines! 
14. D. heudelotiana, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 486. Pubescent and 
thinly hairy. Leaves up to 3 by 3—1 in., narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 
subsessile, puberulous, a few scattered white hairs added. Cymes 
axillary, small, 3-1-flowered; bracteoles 4-4 in. long, linear. Calyx 
4_2 in. long, divided more than } way down, pubescent without, white- 
hairy within ; cystoliths slender. Corolla 1 in. long, purple; linear- 
cylindric portion of the tube nearly $ in. long. Stamens, pollen, pistil, 
ovules, capsule (nearly 4 in. long) as of genus.— Calophanes heudelotianus, 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 112; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 23. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Bondou, Heudelot, 18 (ex Nees), Heudelot, 144! 
190! and without precise locality. 
15. D. linifolia, C’. B. Clarke. Viscid glandular-hairy ; branch 
16 in. long. Leaves 1 by 4-1 in., narrow elliptic, subsessile, viscid 
glandular-hairy ; cystoliths obscure. Flowers axillary, 2 together 
or solitary ; bracts } in. long, linear-oblong. Calyx } in. long, divided 
% the way down, glandular-hairy ; tube within white-hairy ; cystoliths 
obscure ; teeth linear, obtuse. Corolla nearly 14 in. long, linear 
cylindric portion of tube % in. long. Stamens, pollen, pistil, as of genus. 
—Calophanes linifolius, T. Anders. MS. in Hb. Kew. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Northern Zambesia ; Batoka High- 
lands, Kirk ! 
16. D. Hildebrandtii, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenjom. 
iv. 3B, 302. Pubescent, more or less villous; branches 12-16 in. 
long. Leaves 1} by 3 in,, elliptic, obscurely crenulate ; cystoliths not 
prominent ; petioles 0-} in. long. Cymes axillary, small, 3-10 
flowered ; bracteoles less than 4 the length of the calyx, linear. Calyx 
rather more than } in. long, divided % the way down; tube scabrous 
pubescent without, white hairy within; cystoliths not prominent. 
Corolla 14 in. long, purple; linear-cylindric portion of the tube } 1. 
long. Stamens and pistil of the genus. Capsule 3} in. long, linear 
cylindric, 4+-seeded ; seeds] covered with hygroscopic hairs.— Lindau in 
Engl. Pil. Ost-Atr. C. 367. Calophanes Hildebrandtii, 8, Moore iD 
Journ. Bot, 1880, 8, ‘ 
