Lepidagathis. | XCVIII, ACANTHAQER (CLARKE). 129 
L. laguroidea.—Teliostachya hyssopifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 
481. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! 
I here describe the type example of G@. Don only. Among Scott-Elliot’s excellent 
examples (referred above to L. laguroidea), several have been heretofore marked 
L. hyssopifolia; while Scott-Elliot, 4744, has been supposed a new intermediate 
species. I doubt if LZ. hyssopifolia should be considered other than a slender form of 
L. laguroidea, smaller in all its parts. The two species bear a strong superticial 
resemblance to Justicia (Rostellularia) diffusa, Willd. and its numerous subspecies 
or varieties. 
25. L. scabra, C. B. Clarke. Branches with approximate nodes 
and spreading white hairs. Leaves up to 24 by ? in., obliquely narrow- 
elliptic, narrowed at both ends, feather-veined, when mature pubescent 
beneath, glabrate above with irregularly scattered cystoliths; petiole 
0-} in. long. Spikes terminal, or on very short axillary branches, 3 in. 
long, ovoid, lax, with some simple white hairs. Sepals 5, nearly 3 in. 
long, subequal, narrowly lanceolate, acute, moderately white-hairy. 
Corolla 4 in. long, as of Lepidagathis. Stamens: 2 anticous with 2-celled 
anthers ; anthers oblong, subparallel with empty microscopic tails at the 
base; 2 posticous stamens with 1-celled anthers, the other cell indicated 
quite rudimentary ; pollen short-ellipsoid, with 3 longitudinal depres- 
Sions, obscurely reticulated. Ovary glabrous, disc cup-shaped, rather 
long ; style with few long white hairs in the lower part; stigma short 
Spathulate.— Vewracanthus scaber, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369 
partly, 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Welwitsch, 5104! 
S00 eam: Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Lake Chala, Volkens, 
This plant is certainly not Meuracanthus scaber, 8. Moore, the calyx being in 5 
Separate pieces and the corolla 2-lipped (quite unlike the quasi-convolvulus corolla of 
Neuracanthus), The stamens are as those of Neuracanthus, but they are equally like 
those of Z, pallescens. 
32, LINDAUBA, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 411, t. 362. 
Calyx-segments 4, reticulate-nerved, somewhat papery ; posticous 
Segment elliptic, subacute ; anticous subsimilar, divided about 4 way down 
Into 2 lanceolate teeth ; otherwise as Lepidagathis, sect. Veuracanthopsis. 
~~ OWers scattered, subsolitary. 
Species 1, endemic, _ 
This has the calyx exactly as in many Barlerias, but the corolla stamens and pistil 
of Lepidagathis, The pollen is nowise different from that of Lepidagathis myrtifolia 
or L. mollis, 
wal L. speciosa, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, +12, t. 362. Soft hairy 
mith simple and gland-bearing hairs. Branches } in. in diam. Leaves 
Y = in., narrowly elliptic-oblong; petiole 0-;); in. long. Flowers 
“avtered, subsessile ; bract } in. long, linear. Calyx 4 in. long; 2 in- 
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