102 XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). | Blepharis. 
long, blue. Ovary with a large obversely-mitriform horny cap below 
the 2 glands on the posticous style-base. 
{4 Lower Guinea. Angola: Humbe, on the River Cunene, and Gambos, Newton! 
and without precise locality, Johnston / 
Also in South Africa. 
21. B. edulis, Pers. Syn. ii. 180. Grey pubescent or nearly 
glabrate. Stem short, rigid, branched. Leaves in fours at the sterile 
nodes; upper pair 2 by } in., oblong or narrow-elliptic, sessile, spinous- 
margined ; lower pair smaller but similar. Inflorescences strobilate, up 
to 4 in. long, sometimes short; bracts 1-1} in. long, ovate, acuminate, 
recurved, spinous, puberulous, more or less hairy on the nerves without 
when young; bracteoles linear, }-} in. long. Posticous calyx-segment 
3-2 in. long, broadly ovate, very hairy; 2 inmost calyx-segments 
4-1 in. long. Corolla 3 in. long or rather more, blue. Capsule } in. 
long or rather more, 2-seeded.—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 36; 
Zarb in Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 32; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 520; 
Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 128; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 318, fig. 126, A; in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 
369, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. 76. Ruellia ciliaris, Linn. 
Mant. 892 R. persica, Burm. FI. Ind. 135, t. 42, fig. 1. Acanthus 
edulis, Forsk, Fl. Agypt.-Arab. 114. A. Delilii, Spreng. Syst. ii. 819. 
A. tetragonus, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. lxv. Acanthodium 
spicatum, Delile, Fl. Agypt.97, t. 33, fig. 2; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 274; 
Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop, 102, 242; Franch. Sert. 
Somal. 53; Beck in Paulit. Harar. 459. 
Wile Land. Nubia: near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 67! Coastland, 0-4000 ft.»s 
Bent ! Schweinfurth, 349 ! between Korosko and Berber, Kotschy, 341 ! Meroe (Assur), 
Speke & Grant ! Dongola, Ehrenberg! Kordofan, Kotschy, 33! Eritrea: near Saati, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 491! Massowa, Hildebrandt, 7234! Steudner! Keren, 
Steudner, 1525! Habab, 7000 ft., Hildebrandt, 458! Abyssinia: Valley of Dallul, 
Roth, 479! Airuri, Stecker, 31! and without precise locality, Salt! Schimper, 163 ! 
Somaliland: Baraua (Brava), Hildebrandt, 1816! Daua River, Riva, 1460! Harrar, 
Robecchi, 6! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole ! 
British East Africa: Sabaki River, Gregory ! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2613! 
Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro: Marangu, 3000 ft., Volkens, 556! 
The synonym Ruellia ciliaris, Linn., is doubtful; Linnaeus’ description is 
too short. 
22. B. serrulata, Ficalho d: Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, Bot. 
ii, 24, Leaves very spinous, with forward-pointing teeth. Spikes 
3-10-flowered, smaller and looser than in B. edulis ; bracts 3 in. long; 
densely short-hairy, nerves hirsute. Corolla ? in. long, otherwise 48 
B. edulis. —B. procumbens, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe, vii. 35 partly. 
Acanthodium serrulatum, Nees in DC. Prod. xi, 275. A. diversispinwm, 
var. a, only Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 275, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Chella Mountains, Johnston ! Amboella ; Kuando 
River, at Ninda, Serpa Pinto. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Lugard, 85! 
Also in South Africa. 
