Tas. 4717. 
BRILLANTAISIA Owanrtensits. 
Owartan Brillantaisia. 
Nat. Ord. AcANTHACEH.—DrIanpRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis linearibus, superiore longiore. Corolla 
ringens, tubo brevi crasso sequali; Jabium superius fornicato-faleatum, apice bifi- 
dum ; inferius amplum, patentissimum, breviter trifidum, disco plicato-suleatum. 
Stamina tubi apice inserta, fertilia duo longitudine labii superioris ; axthere line- 
ares, longs, biloculares, loculis parallelis muticis continuis. ilamenta sterilia 
duo fertilibus breviora, apice appendiculato, appendice transversa subulata basi 
obtuse calcarata. Ovarium oblongum, hirsutum, basi annulo cinctum. Stylus 
corollam equans. Stigma insequaliter bifidum. Capsu/a linearis, stricta, tetra- 
gona, bilocularis, Semina in quovis loculo 6-8 retinaculo sustenta.—Herba 
Guineensis, ramis decumbentibus dein erectis sulcatis ; foliis ovatis cordatisque den- 
tatis in petiolum alte alatum decurrentibus. Panicula terminalis, ramulis triforis. 
Bractee parve, lineares. Flores speciosi, purpurei, Salvize habitu. 
BRILLANTAISIA Owariensis. Pal. de Beauv. Fl. d Ow. et de Ben. v. 2. p. 68. 
t. 100. f.2. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 8. p, 129. 
BELANTHERIA Lamium. Benth. in Niger Fl. p. 477. 
BELANTHERIA Belvisiana. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 97. 
BELANTHERIA Vogeliana. Benth. in Niger Fl. p. 477. 
Leucograpuis Lamium. Nees in De Cand. Prodr, v. 11. p. 97. 
Leucocrapuis Vogeliana. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 97. 
ovens 
By a strange oversight Professor Nees von Esenbeck over- 
looked the Brillantaisia Owariensis of Palisot de Beauvois ; but 
finding an unnamed specimen of this plant in the Berlin Herba- 
rium from M. de Beauvois’s African collection, he described it 
in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus’ under the name of Belantheria 
Belvisiana. "The Acanthacee of Dr. Vogel, gathered in the 
Niger Expedition, being submitted to Nees’s examination, he 
there found two closely allied plants differing in the stamens 
(these having staminodia, while Belantheria was supposed to 
want them); to which he gave the names Leucographis Lamium 
and LZ. Vogeliana, which in the ‘Niger Flora’ Mr. Bentham 
rightly referred to Brillantaisia. hese two differ chiefly in 
JUNE lst, 1853. eo 
