Asystasia. | XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE), 131 
Bracts shorter than the calyx, ovate, hardly acute. 
Sepals with short hairs; ovary glabrous . . 11. A, Welwitschit, 
Sepals white-shaggy ; ovary hairy at the top. . 12. A. Charmian, 
Bracts exceeding the calyx ; spikes almost strobilate. 
Annual; Jeaves mostly oblong. . . . 18. A. Schimperi. 
Woody shrub ; leaves elliptic to round-ovate . . 14, A. Colee. 
**Racemes axillary, loosely 2-1-flowered; bracts very 
small, . . . . . : . 15. A. ansellioides. 
1, A. coromandeliana, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 89. 
Perennial, 1-4 ft. high, with simple hairs. Leaves 3 by 1 in. (some- 
times 5 by 1} in.), ovate, suddenly narrowed at the base ; petiole 4-4 in. 
long, or 0 (i.e., base of leaf decurrent as a wing). Racemes 2-6 in. long, 
one-sided, frequently several forming a terminal panicle; lower flowers 
remote ; lower pedicels often ;', in. long; bracts minute. Sepals } in. long, 
linear-lanceolate, pubescent or puberulous. Corolla lurid-purple to yellow 
or white; tube } in. long, inflated for 2 its length. Filaments nearly 
glabrous ; anthers muticous. Style-base and ovary hairy. Capsule 1 in. 
long, pubescent ; seeds } in. in diam. or rather more.—Nees in DC. Prod. 
xl. 165; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 493; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
104; S. Moore in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, Bot. iv. 31. A. quaterna, 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 166, 724; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478. 
A. chelonoides, var. 8 arabica, Nees in DO. Prod. xi. 164, 4. calycina, 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478. A. gangetica, T. Anders. in Thwaites, 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 235, and in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 52; 8. Moore in Journ. 
Bot. 1880, 308 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 392 ; Lindau in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 63, t. 1, fig. 49, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
3 B. 326, fig. 131, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370, and in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 79. A. podostachys, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. 199. “A. subhastata, Klotasch, l.c. 200. A. floribunda, 
Klotzsch, lc. 200. A, acuminata, Klotzsch, l.c. 201. A. pubescens, 
Rlotzsch, le. 202. 4. scabrida, Klotzsch, l.c. 202. A. multiflora, 
Klotzsch, lic. 203. A. querimbensis, Klotzsch, l.c. 204. Justicia gan- 
gettca, Linn. Ameen. Acad. iv. 299. Ruellia secunda, Vahl, Symb. iii. 
R. quaterna, Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 284. T'yloglossa longipes, 
Hochst. ex Solms-Laub. le. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Skues ! Ingram! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Don! 
Scott-Kiliot, 3895! 4990! Liberia, Carder / Cape Palmas, Vogel, 56! Gold Coast: 
Accra, Buchholz ! Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 9! Togoland, Kling, 4! Lagos: Erawa, 
Rowland ! Millen, 19! Yoruba, Millson, 71! Niger Territory : Nupe ; Jeba, Barter / 
Niger Delta ; Grand Bassa, Vogel, 87! River Nun, Mann, 501! Cameroons: Rio del 
Y, Johnston ! Victoria, Preuss, 1115! Batanga, Bates, 8! 9! Efulen, Bates, 359! 
aunde, Zenker & Staudt, 489! Fernando Po, Mann, 265! 
4500 0” Land. Upper Senaar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 423! Eritrea: Mount Bizen, 
) ft., Schweinfurth J Riva, 2000! Bogos, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 462! Abyssinia, 
Schimper, 199! Parkyns! Somaliland: River Daua, Riva, 1452! and without 
seine locality, Miss Edith Cole! British East Africa: Mittu; Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 
813! and at the River Moroko, Schweinfurth, 3980! Ribe, near Mombasa, Wake- 
eld! Giryama Mountains, Gregory! Witu, Thomas, 159! 188! 
