Blepharis. ] XCVILI. ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). 103 
23. B. Noli-me-tangere, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 231. 
Small shrub, very prickly, nearly glabrous except calyx and corolla. 
Leaves in fours, up to 14 by } in., oblong, spinous-margined. One- 
flowered branches (reduced spikes) mostly solitary, sometimes 2-3 
together; lowest floral-leaves (and leaves on axillary sterile shoots) 
reduced to simple or compound spines }-2 in. long; bract 1 in. long, 
obovate, acuminate, spinous, puberulous or glabrescent; bracteoles 
j-1 in. long, linear. Posticous calyx-segment 3 in. long; 2 inmost 
calyx-segments } in. long. Corolla 1 in. long. Capsule nearly } in. 
long, 2-seeded.— Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 318. 
B. pruinosa, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 260. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 5045! German South-west 
Africa: Hereroland, Usakos, 3000 ft., Marloth, 1444! Omapiu, Schinz, 17! 
24, B. panduriformis, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 30. Shrubby, 
8-12 in. high, hairy, afterwards glabrate except the inflorescence. 
Leaves up to 24 by 4-4 in., linear or lanceolate, spinous-margined. 
Inflorescence of one-flowered branches (reduced spikes) crowded in a 
scorpioid manner, not strobilate ; floral-leaves 1-1} by }-} in., spinous- 
margined, pubescent ; flower-bract scarcely } in. long, oblong-elliptic, 
acute, spinous ; bracteoles } in. long, linear. Posticous calyx-segment 
{+1 in. long, ovate-oblong, somewhat widened again below the apex and 
then truncate, finely veined in the type example, more hairy (venation 
less prominent) in other specimens; 2 inmost calyx-segments }-% in. 
long. Corolla 3+1 in. long.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
lv. 3 B. 318, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Wakefield! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; on dry hills, 4000-5000 ft., 
Scott-Elliot, 8190! Masai country, Fischer, 486! Uniamwezi ; Urambo, Hannington ! 
Irangi, Stuhlmann, 4226 ! 
25. B. acanthodioides, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 212. 
Branches erect, frequently dividing, scabrous pubescent, ultimately 
glabrous, Leaves up to 3 by 3} in., lanceolate, sparingly spinous- 
margined, glabrate when mature. Inflorescence of many axillary 
clusters, each cluster of 2—6 one-flowered branches (reduced spikes); 
outer floral-leaves 1-14 by 1 in., rigid, lanceolate, with many marginal 
‘pines, nearly glabrous; sterile bracts lanceolate, spinous, with many 
Prominent white hairs at the top, almost obscuring the strong terminal 
‘Pine ; flower-bract, hardly 2 in. long, lanceolate, similar to the sterile 
racts; bracteoles % in. long, linear. Calyx-segments and_bracteoles 
ended by a strong spinule, which is nearly concealed by tufts of long 
White hairs on the tips. Posticous segment (and articous connate 
resents) } in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute; 2 inmost segments } in. 
Ong, linear. Corolla 1 in. long, or rather more, densely shaggy with- 
out by long white hairs.—Lindau in Eng}. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369 
(acanthoides), 
Ag Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Rios de Sena, Peters ! British Central 
mea: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 18 ! 
