120 XCVI{l. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). [ Thomandersia. 
obovoid, 4-seeded (? perfectly)—Shrub. Leaves entire. Inflorescence 
in very long narrow thin axillary racemes; bract minute; bracteoles 0.— 
Scytanthus, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 11. 1093, 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. T. laurifolia, Baill. Hist. Pl. x. 456. Shrub, 8-15 ft. high; 
young parts and inflorescence densely and minutely pubescent. Leaves 
up to 7 by 3 in. (usually half this size), elliptic or obovate, shortly 
acuminate, obtuse, when mature glabrous, shining ; petiole }—1 in. long. 
Racemes 9 by 3 in., many- (often 50-) flowered ; pedicels ;4,-4 in. long; 
bracts ;!, in. long, lanceolate. Corolla pubescent without, white or 
with red-purple marks.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
8 B. 325, fig. 111, L. a, b (not correct). Scytanthus laurifolius, T. Anders. 
ex Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1093, and in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 1209; Biittn. in Verh. Ver. Brandenb. xxxii. (1891) 43. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar River, Mann, 2321! Kalbreyer, 204! Cameroons: 
Bipinde, Zenker, 989! Batanga, Bates, 324! Lolodorf, Stadt, 417! 553! Barombi, 
Preuss, 13! 339! Cameroon River, Mann, 718! 2207! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 227! 372! 
Gaboon River, Mann ! and without precise locality, Bittner, 352! 451! 
South Central. Congo Free State; Bangala, on the Congo, 900-1000 ft., 
Hens, 113! 
The figure of the pollen by Lindau above cited, showing it to be a thin disc, is (it 
is submitted) erroneous. 
31. LEPIDAGATHIS, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1101. 
Sepals 5, nearly or quite distinct (in Z. calycina, 2 anticous united 
less than } the way up); posticous sepal usually much wider, often 
longer, often pointed or subspinescent. Corolla 3-1 in. in total length, 
conspicuously 2-lipped; tube inflated in the upper part, often with 
dense strong deflexed hairs at the top of the cylindric portion ; posticous 
lip ovate-oblong, emarginate, inside in the bud. Stamens 4; anther- 
cells on posticous stamens 2 in typical part of genus (except by accident, 
though often narrower than the anthers of the anticous stamens) ; 2 
sect. Neuwracanthopsis the anthers of posticous stamens are 1-celled ; 
anthers oblong, often acute (or with mucro) at the base, one inser 
lower than the other; pollen ellipsoid, or short ellipsoid, with 3 narrow 
longitudinal depressions and pores, surface reticulated very shallowly, 
or in places merely granulated. Ovary with 2-1 ovules in each cell, 
often slightly hairy at the top; style long, glabrous or with scattered 
hairs in the lower part; stigma short, oblong or elliptic. Capsule } in- 
long or less, ovoid, 2-seeded, or narrow ellipsoid and 4-seeded. Seeds 
densel y hairy all over; hairs tufted, sometimes spirally marked within 
or single, more or less hygroscopic.—Under-shrubs. ‘Leaves entire in 
the African species. Inflorescences hairy, often densely 80, not 
infrequently more or less spinescent, densely compounded of small 
scorpioid cymes, capitate or subcylindric; bract elliptic or oblong ; 
bracteoles 0. 
