126 XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE), | Lepidagathis. 
The long brown scabrous curved points of the floral leaves and the dense 
white fringe of long white bairs on the shoulder of the sepals make this species 
remarkable. It is very rare in Lepidagathis for the 2 innermost sepals to be as long 
as the others, 
14. L. mollis, 7. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 33. Branches 
2 ft. long, and mature leaves with simple hairs, Leaves 3 by } in, 
3-nerved, with transverse cystoliths on the upper surface. Inflorescences 
of basal and axillary clusters of heads; points of the floral leaves and 
posticous sepals erect, soft white-hairy, hardly prickly. Posticous sepal 
4 in. long, lanceolate with a long hairy linear tip. Corolla } in. long, 
yellow with purple spots. Stamens of Hu-Lepidagathis. Ovary slightly 
hairy in the upper half.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
3 B. 313 partly ¢ 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 955! Niger, Batkie ! 
15. L. diversa, (. B. Clarke. Branches stout, minutely hairy. 
Leaves up to 5 by # in., 5-nerved. Inflorescences axillary, 2 in im 
diam., very dense, points of floral leaves long, numerous, pale-brown, 
hairy, strongly deflexed. Sepals 5, all 3-2 in. long, with falcately 
recurved points. Corolla nearly as of LZ. mollis —L. mollis, Oliv. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 128; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 368. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Madi, Speke & Grant, 657 | 
Oliver treated this as a form only of Z. mollis ; and in essentials it does not differ; 
nor, in essentials, do many of the species of Hu-Lepidagathis differ. The appearance of 
the present plant, owing to the falcate-recurved (“ diverse”) tips of floral leaves and 
sepals, is very different ; the sepals are larger. 
16. L. andersoniana, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 16. Branches 
stout, shaggy. Leaves 3 by 4-4} in., 3-nerved, when mature white-villous 
or glabrate beneath, nearly glabrous above, with transverse cystoliths. 
Inflorescence of many compound dense shaggy-white heads 1-3 in. in 
diam., approximated in the upper axils, sometimes subterminal (then 
somewhat elongate with recurved points approaching LZ. M edust)- 
Posticous sepal $ by 3 in.,elliptic-lanceolate, with a long white-hairy point. 
Corolla 4 in. long. Stamens of Hu-Lepidagathis. Ovary with gland- 
tipped hairs at the top and long white hairs on the lower part of the 
style.—L. Andersonii, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 368. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Buganda (Uganda), Stuhlmann, 3525! 
Mozamb,. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi, 4000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 
8259! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte! 
Mount Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 76! 325! and 
without precise locality, Buchanan, 774! 832! 
17. L. heudelotiana, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 254. Branch 14 
long, nearly glabrate. Leaves 3-4 by } in., 3-nerved, hairy. Spikes 
compound, 1} by } in., erect, very dense, in the upper axils; flo 
leaves uniseriate, ovate with linear deflexed points long white-hairy- 
