Petakidium. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). 93 
spersed; bracts of barren branches linear, 1 by 35 in., clothed with 
spreading white hairs 4 in. long; bracteoles } in. long. Calyx } in. 
long; two anticous segments connate 2 their length. Corolla dusky 
blue (Engler) ; tube 2 in. long, inflated in the upper part. Filaments 
minutely hairy; anthers tailed. Disc large pyramidal. Style-branches 
linear, unequal. Capsule } in. long.—Pseudobarleria canescens, Engl. in 
Engl. Jahrb. x. 258; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 
300. 
Lower Guinea. German South West Africa: Hereroland; Karribib, 3200 ft., 
Marloth, 1429 ! Hykamkab, 1000 ft., Marloth, 1199! Usakos, Lindner ! 
16. P. Lepidagathis, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 227, 228. 
Glabrous (even innovations) except the inflorescences. Leaves 3} by 3-1 
in., lanceolate, tapering at both ends; petiole up to 1 in. long. Inflores- 
cences on short axillary branches near the base of the branches, 2~1 by 
1 in, dense, interspersed with very short sterile branches; bracts to 
sterile branches 3-1 by 5}, in. with spreading white hairs ,4, in. long; 
bracteoles hardly 4 in. long. Calyx 1} in. long, minutely hairy within 
and without ; two anticous segments connate nearly to the tip. Corolla 
red or brownish-red ; tube nearly } in. long, slender, a little dilated at 
the top; limb hardly 4 in. in diam. Filaments glabrous except at the 
se; anthers minutely tailed. Capsule scarcely } in. long, 2-seeded 
where seen—Pseudobarleria Lepidagathis, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
flanzenfam. iv. 3B. 300 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 5007! 5020! 
This remarkable species is so closely mimetic of the “ radical-flowering ” species of 
epidagathis (L. radiculis, &c.) that an experienced collector might pass it for one. 
17. P. coccineum, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 225, 228. 
Stem round, stoutish; innovations softly hairy, a few hairs gland- 
g. Leaves up to 23 by 2 in., ovate, obtuse, glabrescent, base 
obtuse or cordate ; petiole } in. long, hairy. Flowers 3-1 together, 
Scattered ; bracteoles up to 1 by } in. (many only }? by } in.) Calyx: 
posticous segment nearly } in. long, other segments } in. long, 2 anticous 
‘onnate for 1 their length. Ccrolla bright red; tube exceeding 1 in. 
ong, Curved at the middle and much inflated above it; lobes 5, 
subequal, 3 in. long, obovate. Filaments glabrous except at the base ; 
anthers linear, at the base muticous or with a hair. Ovary glabrous ; 
Style sp arsely hairy, branches linear, subequal.—Pseudobarleria coccinea, 
Indau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 299. 
A Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 5017! 5018! Huilla, 
ntunes, 90! in thickets by the River Cunene, Sciinz, 10! Humbe, banks of the River 
mene, and Chiviqua, Newton ! Amboland : Ondonga, Schinz ! 
0 Lindau esteems this species a Pseudobarleria, in doing which he abandons the 
ony taracter (viz., the degree of union of 2 anticous calyx-segments) on which the 
Senus Pseudobarleria stands, The analogy of the allied genera, Dyschoriste, Ruellia, 
” Warns us that the character need not be made generic. 
