Tab. 5516. 



ACANTHUS montanus. 



African Mountain Acanthus. 



Nat. Ord. Acanthace.e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis supera et infera multo majoribus. Co- 

 rolla 1-labiata, tubo brevissimo, labio 3-5-lobo. Stamina 4, subdidynama, fila- 

 menta infera apice inflexa ; anthera; omnes uniloculares ciliato-barbatse, superiores 

 erectas. Capsida 2-locularis, compressa, e basi ad medium 4-sperma, lateribus 

 chartaeeis. Semina compressa. — Herba? v. frutices tropica, Orientales et regiouis 

 Mediterranean incoles, foliosce. Folia patenlia, ampla, rigida, pinnatifida v. sinu- 

 ato-spinosa et dentata. Spicse terminates, bracteatce. Flores speciosi, albi v. cce- 

 rulescentes. 



Acanthus montanus; herbacea, glabra, foliis oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis 

 caudato-acuminatis pinnatifidis v. sinuato-lobulatis, laciniis ovatis aeutis 

 sinuato-dentatis, dentibus spinosis, spica terminali densa glaberrima, brac- 

 teis obovatis oblongisve aeutis inciso-dentatis, dentibus setaceis, bracteolis 

 lineari-lanceolatis parcius dentatis. 



A. montana. T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. T.p. 37. 



Cheilopsis montana. Nees in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p. 272, excl. synon. 



A very handsome plant, originally detected by Vogel at Fer- 

 nando Po, since collected by Mann on the same island, at 2000 

 feet elevation ; also found on Prince's Island by Barter, and on 

 the west coast of Africa, south of the tropics, by Curror. It 

 is erroneously described by Nees as a shrub many feet high, 

 Barter and Mann both calling it a herb of only three feet high. 

 The Abyssinian Acanthus tetragonus of Brown, referred to this 

 plant doubtfully by Nees, has been shown by Dr. Anderson to 

 be a species of Blepharis. The specimen here represented flow- 

 ered with Dr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Gardens, who raised it 

 from seed lately sent from Western Africa by Mr. Milne. 



Dr. Anderson, in his able sketch of the African Acanthacea. 

 in the Linnean Society's Journal, has done well in bringing both 

 Dilivaria of Jussieu and Cheilopsis of Moquin-Tandon under 

 the old genus Acanthus of Linnaeus, the essential characters of 



June 1st, 1865. 



