234 XCVIII. ACANTHACEH (CLARKE) [ soglossa. 
red glands. Leaves 4 by 1? in., ovate, hairy on both surfaces ; nerves 
reticulated beneath; petioles short. Panicle terminal, branched ; 
flowers clustered, running into continuous spikes towards the tips of 
the branches; floral leaves lanceolate, larger in the lower part of the 
panicle. Calyx 2 in. long. Corolla rose; tube } in. long; lips } in.. 
long, both deeply lobed. Anther-cells at nearly equal height ; pollen of 
the genus.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 344, and 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori, 9300-10,000 ft., Stuhlmann, 
2397! 2424! 
19. I. ixodes, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 124. Branches 
pubescent upwards. Leaves 2 by 3 in., ovate, margins near the base 
hairy ; petiole 1-4 in. long. Panicle terminal, of closely contracted 
cymes; flowers sessile; floral leaves 1-2 in. long, ovate, acuminate, 
sessile ; bracts } in. long, linear. Sepals } in. long, with long white 
multicellular hairs at the tip. Corolla glabrous, carmine ; tube j in. 
long, cylindric; lips nearly $ in. long. Anther-cells muticous, some- 
what divaricate, one slightly below the other; pollen of the genus. 
Pistil glabrous, of the genus. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; Uluguru Mountains, near 
Lukwangulu, Stuhlmann, 9174! 
49. CHLAMYDOCARDIA, Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. 39. 
Sepals 5, small, linear. Corolla slender, 2-lipped ; tube narrow- 
cylindric; anticous lip 3-lobed, posticous emarginate. Stamens 2; 
anther-cells 2, elliptic, placed obliquely, nearly at equal height, not tailed 
at the base; pollen spherical, with 6 equatorial pores and meridional 
lines of raised points. Stigma subcapitate. Capsule small, stalked, 4- 
seeded ; placentze not rising elastically from the base of valves.—Herbs. 
Panicles terminal, linear-cylindric (or nearly reduced to racemes) ; 
floral leaves (in the two well-ascertained species) spathulate or obovate, 
prominent. 
Species 2 or 3, endemic. 
This differs from Zsoglossa in the pollen and in the inflorescence, to which the 
peculiar floral leaves give a marked character, 
Leaves pubescent ; petiole 0-} in. long . : . 1. C. Buettnert. 
Leaves glabrous; petiole 3-1 in. long . . . 2. C. subrhomboidea. 
1. C. Buettneri, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 39. Stems 12-16 in. 
long, weak, creeping, rooting at the base, with 2 lines of minute 
crisped hair. Leaves up to 34 by 1} in., ovate-acute, much tapering at 
the base, minutely pubescent on the nerves; cystoliths on upper 
surface many, small ; petiole 0-1 in. long. Panicles terminal, up to 4 
by 2 in., nearly glabrate; flowers in 1-4 clusters on the branches, 
sessile; floral leaf (or bract), }-} in. long, obcordate, sub-3-lobed, 
apiculate, on a linear petiolule, mostly 1-flowered, minutely gland-hairy 
on the margin; fruiting panicle-branches loose, but lower bracts imbri- 
