Crossandra. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE), 115 
4 in. long; lobes } in. long or rather more. Anthers hairy; pollen 
long-oblong. Style glabrous.—C. parvifolia, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 
xx. 37, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Harar, Paulitschke; Maid, 5000-6000 ft., Hilde- 
brandt, 1404! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips. 
7. C. nilotica, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 128, t. 85. 
Pubescent, 1-2 ft. high. Basal leaves 0 or small; branch-leaves up 
to 4 by 14 in., elliptic, much narrowed at both ends, tip obtuse, base 
decurrent ; petiole up to 4-1 in. long. Peduncles 0-4 in. long ; spikes 
1-2} by 3-1 in., rather dense; bract 4-2 in. long, obovate-elliptic, 
herbaceous, softly hairy, margin entire, tip triangular-pointed and not 
spinescent; bracteoles linear, 4 in. long. Posticous calyx-segment 
in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, tip very narrow and with 2 hairy teeth. 
Corolla-tube 3 in. long, linear; lobes 4 in. long, obovate, brick-red 
or orange, Anthers hairy; pollen long-oblong, very square-headed, 
3-ribbed. Style glabrous. Capsule 4 in. long, narrowly elliptic, acute, 
4-seeded.—Oliv. in James, Unknown Horn Afr. 321; Lindau in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 370, at least partly. C. infundibuliformis, Franch. Sert. Somal. 50 
(var. brachystachys); Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 398; not of Salisb. 
C. brachystachys, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319. 
Crossandra sp., T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile Append. 643. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Madi, Speke § Grant, 685! Leikipia, 6000- 
231 ft., Thomson! Lake Rudolph, Donaldson Smith! Duruma, Hildebrandt, 
5! 
Mozamb. Dist. Kavala Islands in Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 34! German 
East Africa : Usinja ; Usui, Speke §& Grant, 135! Usambara: Masheua, Holst, 
8815 ! Duga, Holst, 3202a! Portuguese East Africa: Kerimba Islands, Peters / 
British Central Africa: Lake Moero, at Kalangwizi River, Carson, 14! 
Var. acuminata, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370 (at least partly). Tip of 
racts more acute on microscopically mucronate,—Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. 
(1896) 76. Barleria rhyncocarpa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 204 ; Lindau 
in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 368. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1567 ! 
Donkollo, near Ginda, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 303! Abyssinia : Wadi Woina, Rohlfs 
Stecker ! and without precise locality, Salt! Steudner, 1513! Somaliland: Maid, 
{t., Hildebrandt, 858! 1400! Adda-Galla, James g Thrupp! Golis Range, 
"8. Lort-Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole ! and without precise locality, Keller, 197! 
The above cited synonymy is imperfect. The typical Crossandra nilotica of 
ver is known in Berlin as C. brachystachys, Lindau. 
, 8. CG. leikipiensis, Schweinf. in Hohnel, Zum Rudolph-See w. 
Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 7. Branchlets woody, covered (as are the 
®aves) with minute grey simple hairs. Leaves 1} by 4 in., narrowed 
at both ends, hardly acute, subsessile, margin undulate and sometimes 
obscurely toothed. Peduncles 2—3 in. long; spikes 1 by } in., rather 
