Thunbergia. | ACANTHACER (Clarke). 5 
inflated from 1 in. above the base, curved, yellowish ; lobes 1—} in, 
long, ovate, blue; anther-cells short, with few beaded hairs, one cell 
in each of the two larger spurred at the base; style funnel-shaped at 
the top, margin with short triangular lobes ; capsule 1 in. long, 
densely and minutely hairy. Harvey, Thes. Cap. i. 25, ¢. 88; 7. 
Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 18. : 
KatanArRI Reoion: Transvaal; by the river at Lydenberg, Wilms, 1216! 
Crocodile River, 4800 ft., Schlechter, 3911! 
Eastern Reeton: Pondoland; Port St. John, Galpin, 3899! Natal; Hills 
near Pinetown, 1800 ft., Wood in MacOwan § Bolus Herb. Norm. Austyr.-Afr., 
1337! Inanda, Wood, 284! Umzimkulu River, McNeil in Wood Herb., 1806! 
on the skirts of woody places at Attercliffe, Umblali, and Maritzburg, 500- 
2500 f't., Sanderson, 169! Northdene, 40C-500 ft., Wood, 4983! and without 
precise locality, Sanderson, 869! Gerrard, 75! 
2. T. capensis (Retz. in Phys. Soellsk. Handl. i. [1776] 163) ; 
more or less hispid ; stems 4—20 in. long, decumbent from a woody 
root ; leaves 8-1 in. long, ovate, angular toothed or subentire, base 
truncate ; petiole 0-1 in. long ; bracteoles 2 in. long, ovate or elliptic ; 
calyx-teeth about 12, linear, } in. long; corolla yellow ; tube 2 in. 
long; limb 8 in. in diam.; anthers nearly or quite glabrous, cells 
not spurred (very rarely with a minute mucro) at the base; pollen 
globose, banded, with a few minute tubercles; style with one lobe 
far below the other ; capsule 3 in. long, glabrous ; seeds } in. long, 
not greatly flattened. Linn. f. Suppl. 292; Gertn. Fruet. iii. 23, ¢. 
183, fig. 4; Thunb. Nov. Gen. i. 21, 22, Prod. 106, and Fl. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 488; Lam. Ill. iii. 97, t. 549, fig. 1; Drége, Zwei 
Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 137, 226 (capensis, letter e only) ; 
Krauss in Flora, 1845, 72; Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 1529; Nees in 
Linnea, xv. 351, and in DC. Prod. xi. 55, excl. var. B; T. 
Anders. in Journ. Linn, Soe. vii. 20 partly ; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 
xvii. Beibl. 41, 36,39. 7. humilis, Eckl. et Zeyh. Cat. Sem. Pl. 
Cap. fide Nees in Linnea, xv. 351. 
Coast Rreaion: Cape Div.; Cape Promontory, Masson! Mossel Bay, and 
between Gamtoos River and Swartbeck River, Thunberg ; Knysna Div. ; between 
Plettenberg Bay and Melville, Burchell, 58375! Humansdorp Div. ; Kromme 
River, Krauss, 1651! Uitenhage Div.; between Vanstadens River and Galge- 
bosch, Burchell, 4678 ! between Uitenhage and Drosdy Farm, Burchell, 4464! 
and without precise locality, Ecklon §° Zeyher, 772! Zeyher! Port Elizabeth 
Div. ; Algoa Bay, Cooper, 83025! between Krakakamma and the upper part of 
Leadmine River, Burchell, 4604! Alexandria Div.; on the Zuur Berg Range, 
2500-3500 ft., Drége! Albany Div. ; mountains near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., 
MacOwan ! 800 ft., Bolus, 1676! between Assegai Bosch and Rautenbachs Drift, 
Burchell, 4199! and without precise locality, Bowie! Fort Beaufort Div. ; 
without precise locality, Cooper, 452! 560 partly! British Kaffraria, (ill / 
Centrat ReGion: Albany Div.; on a rocky mountain east side of Zwartwater 
Poort, Burchell, 3431! ay 
The type of var. grandiflora, Nees (in DC. Prod. xi. 55), has not been found; 
but from a scrap which Nees has marked “ T. capensis ? var. grandiflora nana,” 
it was probably some form of 7. atriplicifolia or T. aspera, 
3. T. purpurata (Harvey ms. in Herb. Hook.); sparingly hairy, 
often glabrate except the innovations; stems twining, several feet 
