Blepharis. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 105 
Leaves up to 2 by 1 in., spinous-margined, with many minute gland- 
tipped hairs. One-flowered branches (reduced spikes) axillary, solitary, 
scattered, and in the upper axils approximated ; flower-bract 3 in, long, 
narrow-elliptic or oblong, spinous-margined ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 2 in. 
long, minutely hairy, veins conspicuous ; 2 inmost segments 7 in. long, 
linear-lanceolate. Corolla 1 in. long or rather more.—Lindau in Engl. 
PA. Ost-Afr. C. 369. B. Stuhlmanni, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 31, in 
os Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 318, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
. 370. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Manjansa Brook, Stuh/mann, 678 ! 
Muansa, Stuhimann, 4596 ! Portuguese East Africa: Tete, Kirk! Carvalho! Peters! 
near Banga, Kirk, 286! 
Imperfectly known species. 
30. B. Phillipseze, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1897, 375. Woody, 
much-branched, canescent small shrub. Leaves apparently in false 
Whorls of 4, 2 in. long, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, not spinous, 
thick, minutely grey scabrid. One-flowered branches (reduced spikes) 
Solitary, axillary; lower empty bracts about 8, decussate, up to ] in. 
long, oblanceolate, tipped with 3-1 spines. Corolla ? in. long. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Bihen, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
If the bracteoles are 0, as may be inferred from Rendle’s description, this species 
would be near B, boerhaaviefolia, 
31. B. trinervis, Dew2vre in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 
104 (name only). Leaf 14 by 3? in., obovate-elliptic, obtuse, sessile, 
“herved, spinous-margined, softly hairy. Flowers sessile, softly hairy ; 
pract in. long, elliptic, acute, spinous, hairy. Corolla scarcely 3 in, 
ng. 
South Central, Congo Free State: Upper Congo; Katanga, Cornet, 
Ussumba, Dewevre ! 
his may be any Blepharis, The species was founded on the above-described 
Msufficient fragments, 
26. ACANTHUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1090. 
_ Calyx sub-4-partite to the base; 2 anticous segments connate 
high up or quite to the tip; posticous segment lanceolate or oblong, 
“herved ; 2 interior segments narrower. Corolla; posticous lip 0, 
represented by a thickened sinus at the level of insertion of the 
Stamens ; anticous lip nearly flat, 3-5-lobed ; middle (anticous) segment 
Cutside in bud. Stamens 4, subsimilar; filaments glabrous ; anthers 
1-celled, oblong, muticous, fringed with white hairs; pollen ellipsoid 
with 3 narrow longitudinal chinks. Ovary with 2-1 ovules in each cell, 
Sabrous ; style glabrous, except in A. eminens; branches 2, subequal, 
Srort-lanceolate or very small. Capsule ellipsoid, woody, shining brown, 
~ (rarely 4-) seeded ; seeds discoid, without hairs.—Shrubs or small 
, Leaves pinnatifid or entire, prickly or not. Flowers usually 
*8e, In long or short spikes; bract ovate, spinous or unarmed, or 0 ; 
