Phaylopsis. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 83 
Corolla-tube less than 2 in. long, somewhat funnel-shaped 
upwards. 
Inflorescences strobilate, many, cylindric. 
Anticous 2 calyx-teeth linear-ligulate, acute . 1. P. parviflora, 
Anticous 2 calyx-teeth linear-spathulate 2. P. longifolia. 
Anticous 2 calyx-teeth oblong-falcate 3. P. falcisepala, 
Inflorescences short-cylindric, hardly strobilate. 
Bracts hardly so long as flowers . . . . 4. P. angolana. 
Bracts longer than flowers; spike leafy . . 5. P. Pogget. 
Inflorescences ovoid, not strobilate. 
Heads of flowers scattered. 
Leaves less than 1 in. long, subentire, glabre- 
scent . . . . . . 6 P. microphylla, 
Leaves up to 3 in. long, oblique, entire, pubescent 7. P. micrantha, 
Spikes very small, leaves crenate-serrate : . 8. P. obliqua, 
Leaves and inflorescences subterminal on latera ; 
branchlets . . . . . 9. P. Johnston. 
Corolla-tube 3 in. long, subcampanulate in the upper 
part . . . . . . . . . 10. P. Bartert. 
Corolla-tube 4 in. long or more, linear to the top. we 
Leaves ovate ; bracts round ; corolla-tube 4 in. Jong . 11. P. lankesterioides. 
Leaves lanceolate; bracts narrow; corolla-tube, 1 in. 
long . . . . . . . . 12. P. glandulosa. 
1. P. parviflora, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 342. Stem 1-2 ft. high, 
branched, decumbent or suberect, hairy, becoming glabrescent below. 
ves up to 3 by 14 in. (many on the same stem only 3—1 in.) long, 
those of one pair sometimes very unequal, acuminate at both ends, 
pubescent, some often very unequal and oblique at the base, nearly entire ; 
Petiole up to 14 in. long. Inflorescences some cylindric up to 2} by 
# in., dense, strobilate (some examples have nearly all the inflorescences 
ovoid); lower floral leaves } by } in., rounded subtruncate; upper 
oral leaves of the same inflorescence are 4 by } in,, ovate, triangular, 
Subacute at the tip. Calyx }-} in. long, hairy, scarcely glandular ; 
Posticous segment ovate, two anticous segments narrowly linear-ligulate, 
hot dilated at the subacute tip. Corolla 4 in. long, white or purplish ; 
tube cylindric, narrow-funnel-shaped at the top. Ovary glabrous, 
Sparingly glandular close to the top only. Capsule }-} in. long.—T. 
Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe, vii. 26; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fi. Brit. 
Ind, iv. 417. P, longifolia, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2433. Ruellia imbricata, 
Porsk. Deser, Egypt.-Arab. 113; Vahl, Symb. ii. 73. Micranthus 
yPPositifolius, Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 39; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
flanzenfam. iv, 3B, 298, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367. M. longifolius 
- Imbricatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 493. dtheilema imbricatum, 
R. Br. Prod, 478 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480; Nees in DC. Prod. 
* 262 partly ; not of A. Rich. Z. reniforme, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar. iii, 94, and in DO, Prod. xi. 261; Wight, Ic. t. 1533; Benth. in 
Hook, Niger Fl. 480, Phaulopsis oppositifolius & P. longifolius, Lindau 
in Engl, & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii—iv. 305. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Perrottet, 631! Senegambia, Heudelot, 585! Gambia, 
“ne ‘ “Lester, 11! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Smeathman! Don! Scott-Elliot, 5693 ! 
