84 XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). [ Phaylopsis. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Eritrea; Saganeiti, 6500 ft. Schweinfurth & Riva, 
939! 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island (ex Lindau). German East Africa: Usambara, 
Holst, 314! British ‘Central Africa: Nyasaland, Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., 
Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 773! 
I differ from Lindau in ascribing the synonyms above given to this plant. 
The Ruellia imbricata of Forsk&l is in the British Museum, and is the Indian 
Phaylopsis parviflora as R. Brown made it. The Phaylopsis longifolia, Sims (Bot. 
Mag. t. 2433) is figured from a Sierra Leone piece (where Ph. longifolia, T. Thoms. 
is not known), and agrees perfectly with the Sierra Leone plants of Heudelot and others. 
2. P. longifolia, 7. Thoms. in Speke, Journ. Append. 643, not of Sims. 
Two anticous calyx-segments linear-spathulate, obtuse, about as long as 
the posticous segment ; otherwise as P. parviflora.—T. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. vii. 26; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 127, ser. 2, Bot. ii. 
345; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 388. Ztheilema imbricatum, A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 149; Solms Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. 
Aethiop. 104. Barleria inequalis, Hochst. MS. in Schimper Exs. 367. 
Micranthus longifolius, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 
298, fig. 120 A-F, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367 partly, and in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. 68, not of O. Kuntze. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipindi, 300 ft., Zenker, 1215! Victoria, Staudt, 
663 ! 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Ginda, 3300 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 2138! Abyssinia: 
Tigre ; Addi-Dschoa, 7500 ft., Schimper, 542! Ferfera River, Schimper, 733! 
Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 367! Mountains near Axum, Sehimper, 1523! Dochli, 
Schimper, 505! Samen ; Aman-Eski, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper, 339! Somaliland: 
Harar, Robecchi, 5! British East Africa: Madi; rocky heights of Ugani, Speke § 
Grant ! east side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8086! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Volkens, 758! 
Johnston, 96! Usambara, Holst, 6768! 8333 ! 8911! Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8875! 9240! 
Portuguese East Africa: Beira, Braga, 82! 84! 
The plants here taken as typical of this species are Schimper’s Abyssinian 
specimens. The above citations of authors refer to the plant they meant, not to their 
synonymy, which is largely erroneous. In Schimper, 367, the leaves are not so long 
nor so oblique at the base as commonly in P, parviflora ; in Holst, 8911 (Lindau’s 
longifolia), the leaves are small 1-13 in, long. The present species might be treated 
as a var, of P. parviflora, 
3. P. falcisepala, C. B. Clarke. Two anticous calyx-segments 
oblong-falcate, hispid-ciliate, black towards the base, their adjacent 
margins straight, very close together; otherwise as P. parviflora.— 
Micranthus longifolius, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367 partly. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! Smeathman! Brown & Brown, 35! 
Scott-Elliot, 3993! Lagos: Yoruba, Millson, 127! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 
913, partly ! 
Nile Land. Bongo: Gir, Schweinfurth, 1422! 
‘The two anticous sepals appear at first sight to be one segment of equal breadth with 
the posticous segment, 
4, P. angolana, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 229. Leaves up t? 
43 by 2 in., sparingly pubescent; petiole up to 13 in. long. Inflores- 
