Phaylopsis. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 85 
ences shoit-cylindrie or ovoid; lowest floral leaf orbicular, upper 
elongate elliptic-oblong. Two anticous calyx-segments ligulate-spathu- 
late; otherwise as P. parviflora.—Micranthus angolanus, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. 493, 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 5146, 5175! Congo, 
Smith! Bittner, 455! 
This differs from the preceding species by the large leaves and the narrower bracts 
to the spikes, 
o. P. Poggei, C. B. Clarke. Leaves up to 4 by 1} in., sparingly 
pubescent ; petiole up to 13 in. long. Inflorescences short-cylindric ; 
upper floral leaves elongate up to 4-2 in. long. Posticous calyx- 
Segment elliptic-oblong, tip triangular acute; 2 anticous calyx-segments 
ligulate. Corolla-tube hardly } in. long; otherwise as P. parviflora — 
Micranthus Poggei, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 108, and in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 298. Phaulopsis Poggei, Lindau in Engl. 
« Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii—iv. 305. . 
joes” Land. British East Africa: East side of Lake Albert Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, 900 ft., Hens, 52! 
meee Central. Congo Free State: Nyangwe, on the River Lualaba, Pogge, 
Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston, 102! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! Songwe 
and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! 
This species resembles P. angolana in the habit and large leaves; it differs 
strikingly on account of the very leafy look of the inflorescences, 
6. PR, microphylla, 7’. Anders. MS. Innovations and inflorescences 
hairy, stem and leaves soon glabrescent. Leaves all small, longest up 
1 in, long. Inflorescences ovoid, scarcely } in. in diam., many- 
lowered, obscurely strobilate ; floral leaves (except a few of the lowest) 
elliptic or oblong. Calyx: posticous segment oblong-elliptic, 2 anticous 
Segments linear-oblong, slightly spathulate. Corolla } in. long; other- 
wise as P. parviftora.—Micranthus microphyllus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
493. silvestris, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 107, and in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam., iv. 3B. 298. Phaulopsis silvestris, Lindau in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii—iv. 305; Cummins in Kew 
Bulletin, 1898, p. 77. 
Upper Guinea. Ashanti: Assin-yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 71! Cameroons: 
nea, Preuss, 701! 
Maer Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaur, 6! Gaboon River, 
nn ! 
7. P. micrantha, (. 3. Clarke. Weak; leaves up to 3 by 1} at 
acuminate at both ends, entire, unequal at the base, sparingly pubescent ; 
Petiole up to 1} in. long. Inflorescences ovoid, } in. long, or of very 
ew flowers. Calyx + in. long; 2 anticous segments narrowly ok Jona 
Ceolate, obtuse. Corolla-tube { in. long ; capsule ¢ in. long. — ites 
™eranthum, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480. 
