10 ACANTHACE® (Clarke). [Thunbergia. 
Eastern Reaion : Pondoland ; Backbeach, Durba, Bachmann, 1265; Zululand ; 
Entumeni, Wood, 4015! 
The differences of this from the Madagascar T. angulata are very small ; in the 
latter the leaves are more acuminate, the basal lobes rather different. Lindau 
distinguishes T. angulata by the leaves being glabrous between the nerves. 
16. T. dregeana (Nees in Linnea, xy. 352); a hairy twiner; 
leaves 2 by 14 (or sometimes up to 4 by 2) in., cordate-ovate or 
hastate, toothed or angular; petioles 2-1} in. long, not winged ; 
bracteoles 2-8 in. long, elliptic ; calyx-teeth 12, linear, 4 in, long ; 
corolla white ; tube % in. long; limb 14 in. in diam. ; anther-eells 
(several of them) spurred at the base, with beaded hairs especially at 
the base; style glabrous; stigma with 1 lobe much below the 
other; capsule % in. long, glabrous. Presi, Bot. Bemerk. 94; Nees 
m DC. Prod. xi. 58; Drége in Linnea, xx. 200; T. Anders. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 20, not of Lindau. T. fragrans b., E. Mey. in 
Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 141, 226, not of Roxburgh. 
Coast Ryeion: Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 3601! Sunday 
River, ex Nees. Alexandria Div. ; Enon, 1000 ft., Drege. Albany Div. ; 
Glenfilling, below 1000 ft., Drege! Fort Beaufort Div. ; without precise locality, 
Cooper, 454! 560! Komgha Div. 3; near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 1747! 
CrntrRaL ReGion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3215! 
Philipstown and Kat River, ex Nees. 
EAstERN REGION: Griqualand East ; among shrubs by the sides of streams 
near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2559! Natal ; Coastland to 1000 ft., Sutherland ! 
Tnanda, Wood, 543! and without precise locality, Sunderson, 442! 
17. T. alata (Boj. ex Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2591); a hairy twiner; 
leaves 21 by 12 in,, broadly hastate, toothed or angular ; petioles 1-2 
in. long, winged ; braeteoles 2% In. long, ovate-elliptic ; calyx-teeth 
12, linear, 2 in. long ; corolla yellow with a purple eye (but paler or 
sometimes nearly white varieties occur) ; tube $ in. long ;, limb 13 in, 
in diam. ; anther-cells with beaded hairs, and (several in each 
flower) spurred at the base ; style glabrous; stigma with 1 lobe 
much below the other; capsule % in. long, pubescent ; seeds sub- 
hemispheric, reticulate. Hook. Exot. Fl. iii. t. 177 ; Nees in DC. 
Prod. xi. 58 ; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 19; C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. iv. 391; and Burkill in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. v. 16; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 366, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 37, 40. 
KAstERN ReGion: Natal; near Durban, Wood, 495! 3092! and without 
precise locality, Cooper, 2771! 
In Tropical Africa and Natal indigenous; introduced into many warm 
ane of the World. Lindau records it (as though wild) from Namaqua- 
Lindau, in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl, 41, 37, di s thi is 
~ allied species by ‘te bracteoles being “ etc roar ieee 
beneath is “slender” ; at any rate, I cannot distinguish th : 
that character. 8 © present species by 
Imperfectly known Species, 
18. T. hirta (Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl, 41, 36, 38, not 
of Sonder) ; hairy ; leaves about x in. long, oval, pointed, cordate or 
