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linear-lanceolate or linear, nearly glabrous. Spike 2~24 in. long, slender, 
interrupted ; bracts 4 in. long; glabrous. Sepals } in. long, linear, 
puberulous. Corolla in total length $ in. Anther-cells minutely mu- 
cronate at the base. Style hairy at the base.—Lindau in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 370. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Durama, 700 ft., Gregory ! 
6. A. scandens, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4449. A straggling shrub. 
Leaves up to 7 by 3 in,, elliptic, narrowed at either end, young with 
white dots on the upper surface, when mature nearly glabrous; petiole 
0-3 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2-3 in. long, often compound, 
viscous-pubescent, glandular; bract hardly } in. long. Sepals 4 in. 
long, linear. Corolla pale mauve to white; tube } in. long, much 
inflated in the upper half. Anthers minutely tailed; pollen long- 
ellipsoid, of the genus, with obsolete tubercular markings, as in many 
Species of Justicia. Ovary glabrous.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478 ; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 53; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Planzenfam. iv. 3 B. 326. Henfreya scandens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, 
. ol, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4919! near Lumbaraya, 
5012! George Water, Scott-Elliot, 4164! and without precise locality, Barter! 
Don! Afzelius! Smeathman ! 
7, A. vogeliana, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 479. A straggling 
undershrub. Leaves up to 74 by 24 in., narrowed at either end, when 
mature nearly glabrous, with rows of minute cystoliths along the 
midrib on the upper surface; petiole 0-14 in. long. Inflorescence 
terminal, compound, lax or straggling, 6-18 in. long, ultimate spikes 
or racemes l-sided; bract 1 in. long. Sepals 4-4 in. long, linear, 
densely and minutely glandular pubescent. Corolla pale purple to 
white; tube 2 in. long, slender, the upper 4 part funnel-shaped. 
thers mucronate at the base, hardly tailed. Ovary glabrous; a 
very few microscopic bristles on the style-base. Capsule 1-1} in. 
long.—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vii. 53; Lindau in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 326; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 
(7, A, kalantha, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 321. 
Upper Guinea. Asbanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 79! Togoland, 
aumann, 374! Lagos; Abeokuta, Irving! near Lagos, Rowland! Niger Delta: 
Angiama, Barter, 2096! Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 449! Cameroon Mountains, 
3000 ft., Mann, 1955! Fernando Po, Vogel, 211! Mann, 47! 
8. A. longituba, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 118. Ovary with 
many brown subsessile glands nearly to the base. Capsule glandular ; 
otherwise as A, vogeliana. 
Upper Guinea, Cameroons: Yaunde, 2500 ft., Zenker g- Staudt, 410! 587 ! 
5874! 5873! between Victoria and Bota, Preuss, 1363 ! . 
Lindau says this is distinct from all other African Asystasias by the length ot 
the flowers ; but they are not quite so long as those ot 4. vogeliana. The cy stoliths, 
on the upper surface of the leaf along the midrib, are much fewer. 
