20 ACANTHACER (Clarke). [ Chetacanthus. 
neatly so; otherwise as CO. Persoonii, Nees. Sonder in Linnea, xxi. 
94. Calophanes costatus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vil. 23. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; Apies Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4109! 
Rust Plaats, near Origstad, on the Bosch Veld, Wilms, 1193! near Lydenburg, 
Wilms, 1194! 1195! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1402! Burke! Matebe Valley, 
Holub! Barberton, 2400 tt., Galpin, 644! and without precise locality, McLea ! 
Nees describes the leives as prominently 3-nerved beneath. The leaves are 
pinnate-nerved, as throughout the genus, and there are 7-9 nerves equally 
prominent. 
VII. PHAYLOPSIS, Willd. 
Bracteoles 0.  Oalyx 5-lobed nearly to the base; 2 anticous 
segments linear or linear-spathulate ; posticous segment ovate ; 
2 inner segments shorter linear. Corolla small; tube 1—} in. long ; 
lobes 5, contorted in the bud. Stamens 4; anther-cells mucronate 
at the base, hardly tailed; pollen short-ellipsoid, longitudinally 
12-ribbed, with 3 stopples. Style thinly hairy; 1 stigmatic arm 
linear-oblong, the other very short; ovary with 2 ovules in each cell. 
Capsule ellipsoid, compressed, solid at the base, usually perfecting 
4 seeds, dehiseing elastically; the placente (carrying the seeds) 
separate from the capsule-wall and spring up from the bottom ; 
margins of seeds with numerous hygroscopic hairs. 
Small, shrubby ; leaves often oblique, those in 1 opposite pair unequal, elliptic, 
entire or crenate ; inflorescence in cylindric or ovoid spikes, each broad floral leaf 
enclosing a contracted cyme of usually 3 flowers ; bract to each flower 0. 
Species 15, in Africa, Mascarene Isles and India. 
Anticous 2 calyx-teeth linear-ligulate, acute... ... (1) parviflora. 
Anticous 2 calyx-tceth linear-spathulate in ... (2) longifolia. 
1. P. parviflora (Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 342) ; pubescent; stem 1-2 ft. 
long, branched; leaves up to 3 by 11 in. (some on the same stem 
only > by 1 in. long), acuminate at both ends, nearly entire ; petiole up 
to 1} in. long; inflorescence 1-2 in. long, dense, strobilate; lower 
floral leaves 4 by } in., rounded, subtruncate ; calyx 1—1in. long, hairy ; 
2 anticous segments linear-ligulate, acute ; corolla 1 in. long, white 
or purplish ; tube funnel-shaped at the top; ovary glabrous, sparingly 
glandular at the top; capsule 1-1 in. long. 7’. Anders. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vii. 26; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.iv.417, in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 83. P. longifolia, Sims in Bot, Mag. t. 
2433. Micranthus oppositifolius, Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 39 ; Lindau 
in Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 298, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr, C. 367. M. longifolius and M. imbricatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
493. Aitheilema imbricatum, R. Br. Prod. 478; Nees in DC. Prod. 
xi. 262 partly. A. reniforme, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 94, and 
in DC. Prod. xi. 261; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1533; Hochst. in Flora, 
1845, 70. Phaulopsis oppositifolius and P. longifolius, Lindau in 
Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.iv. 305. 
Eastern Reoion: Natal; in woods around Durban Bay, Krauss, 231! road- 
sides near Durban, Wood, 65! borders of woods near Durban, 150 ft., Wood in 
