172 XCVIII, ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). —- [Hrranthemum. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Wallia on the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 
4451! and without precise locality, Vogel, 159! Winwoode Reade! Smeathmann! 
Gold Coast: Accra, Don! Krause, 60! Adato, Krause, 59! Lagos: on rocks at 
Eruva, Rowland ! 
5. BE. ludovicianum, Biittn. in Verh. Bot. Brandenb. xxxii. 41. 
Shrub, up to 12 ft. high; branches round; stem quadrangular 
(Biittner). Leaves 7 by 24 in., elliptic, when mature glabrous, upper 
surface with scattered subobscure cystoliths, lower surface closely and 
minutely round-dotted; petiole up to 1 in. long. Panicle 6 by ? in.; 
axillary condensed cymes 3-8-flowered; rhachis minutely pubescent. 
Calyx + in. long, minutely pubescent. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, nearly 
glabrous without ; lobes } in. long. —H. Mannii, T. Anders. MS. Pseude- 
ranthemum ludovicianum, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 1v. 
3 B. 330; Wild. et Dur. Ill. Fl. Congo, i. (1899), p. 63, t. 32. 
Upper Guinea. Ashanti: Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 237 | Cameroons: 
Yaunde, Staudt, 537! Zenker, 418! Preuss, 598 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 1437 ! 
South Central. Lunda: Muene-Putu-Kassongo, Biittner, 460 ! 
6. E. Hildebrandtii, (. B. Clarke. A shrub 3-6 ft. high, 
nearly glabrous. Branches terete or quadrangular. Leaves up to 4} 
by 1} in., ovate or elliptic; cystoliths many slender on the surfaces; 
petiole 0-1 in. long (leaf base often long decurrent on a quasi-winged 
petiole). Panicles linear, 1-3 in. long, often terminal on lateral 
branches, running into a large compound inflorescence ; rhachis 
glabrous, shining brown; otherwise as L. hypocrateriforme.—E. hypo- 
crateriforme, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 398.  Pseuderanthemum 
Hildebrandtii, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 39, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 330, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 371. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Sheikh Husein, Donaldson Smith! British East 
Africa: Rabai Hills near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2308! Nyika country near 
Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Hildebrandt, 981! German East Africa : 
Usambara ; Duga, Holst, 3159! Mascheua, Holst, 8800! Tanga, Holst, 2110! 
Magila, Kirk! between Magila and the River Sigi, Volkens, 64! Usaram® 
Stuhlmann, 8988 ! 
Hildebrandt, 981, has terete branches. The present species is separated from 
E. hypocrateriforme by the shining-brown glabrous rhachis, and the leaves no’ 
reticulately veined beneath. 
7. E. seticalyx, (. B. Clarke. Branches roundish, glabrate, 
with the rhachis of inflorescence pubescent upwards. Leaves uP to 
4} by 2 in., ovate (in some of Kirk’s examples 7 by 33 in.), when 
young often very hairy, when mature rarely quite glabrate ; cystoliths 
scattered, obscure ; petiole 0-1 in. long. Panicles 2-3 by } in., dense. 
Calyx } in. long, nearly glabrous or with white spreading sm 
bristles, also seen on the rhachis. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, pubescent 
without. 
