Lepidagathis. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEH (CLARKE), 127 
Sepals 5, distinct ; posticous } by } in., ovate, obtuse, hardly mucronate. 
Corolla 2 in. long. Capsule 2 in. long, ovoid, acute, glabrous, 2-seeded 
or (fide Nees) sometimes 4-seeded.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fi. 480; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 33; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pilanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 313. 
Upper Guinea, Senegambia, Heudelot, 666! 
18. L. peniculifera, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 39. Robust ; 
branches at length glabrate. Leaves 1} by } in., 3-nerved, tips almost 
spinescent, with long white simple hairs. Spikes compound, 2 by 3 in., 
erect, 1-2-together, in the upper axils; floral leaves uniseriate, densely 
packed, leathery, ovate with short (or most of them without any) mucro. 
Sepals 5, distinct, leathery, obtuse, with dense thick hair; posticous 4 
by 4 in., ovate. Corolla % in. long; stamens and pollen as of Hwu- 
Lepidagathis. 
Wile Land. Mittu: Reggo, Schweinfurth, 2794! 
This species is named from the spikes themselves representing a painter’s brush (or 
a little tail), they remind me of neither. The species differs much from its neigh- 
bours in the floral leaves being without tails (or very shortly mucrouate). 
19. L. Medusz, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 39. Branches 
Stout, villous. Leaves 4 by } in., 5-nerved, when mature hairy beneath, 
glabrate above, with transverse cystoliths, Spikes compound, 1} by 3-3 
in., 1-2-together, erect, in the upper axils; floral leaves uniseriate, 
densely packed, hairy, ovate with long deflexed white-hairy tails. Sepals 
»,all with long recurved white-hairy tails; posticous } in. long, ovate, with 
atail }in. long. Corolla 2 in. long. Stamens and pollen of Hu-Lepida- 
we I. Caput-Meduse, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
9 B. 313, 
Nile Land. Bongo: Ngoli (Nyoli), Schweinfurth, 4076 partly ! 
20. L. pallescens, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 508. Grey- 
Pubescent with small curved hairs. Leaves 2} by } in., lanceolate, 
narrowed, obtuse at both ends, subsessile, scarcely 3-nerved, upper 
surface glabrate with irregularly scattered (not all transversely parallel 
4s In preceding species) cystoliths. Spikes } by } in., in the upper 
axils, brown, minutely pubescent; floral leaves few seriate. Calyx } in. 
long, of 5 lanceolate sepals, minutely scabrous. Anthers of anticous 
stamens oblong, subparallel, with minute empty mucro at the base; 
Posticous stamens with one anther perfect, one sterile imperfect or 
rudimentary; pollen short ellipsoid, hardly reticulated. Ovary glabrous ; 
Style hairy near the base ; stigma small, spathulate. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5084! 
21. L. calycina, Vees in DC. Prod. xi. 252. Young parts minutely 
Pubescent. Leaves up to 1} by 2 in., elliptic, narrowed at both ends, 
When mature nearly glabrous with irregularly scattered cystoliths on 
the Upper surface; petiole 0—} in. long. Spikes up to 14 by 1in., strobilate, 
“ery green, terminal (many on very short lateral branches), microscopl- 
