Phaylopsis.] ACANTHACK& (Clarke). 21 
MacOwan Sf Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1338! Inanda, Wood, 152! and 
without precise locality, Grant ! Cooper, 3040! Gerrard, 10 partly ! 
Also in India, Mascarene Isles and Tropical Africa. 
Phaylopsis longifolia, Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2133), is figured from a Sierra 
Leone plant, and is identical with the West African examples accepted by all 
authors as P. parvijtora. 
2. P. longifolia (T. Thoms. in Speke, Journ. Append. 643, not of 
Sims); 2 anticous calyx-segments linear-spathulate ; otherwise as 
T. parviflora. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 26. Aitheilema 
anisophyllum, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwet Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
160, 162. Micranthus longifolius, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 298, fig. 120, A—F, not of O. Kuntze. 
Eastern Region: Natal ; near Durban, below 500 ft., Drége! and without 
precise locality, Gerrard, 13! 
Also in East Tropical Africa. 
This species might be esteemed a variety of P. parviflora, 
VIII. PETALIDIUM, Nees. 
Bracteoles 2, very large, ovate or elliptic, ultimately more or less 
scarious, prominently veined. Calyx deeply divided into 5 unequal — 
narrow-lanceolate segments. Corolla-tube dilated towards the top; 
lobes contorted in the bud. Stamens 4; anther-cells mucronate at 
the base; pollen ellipsoid, few-ribbed, stopples 3 with (nearly 
always) 1 tubercle above and 1 below each stopple. Style with 
2 unequal branches; ovary with 2 ovules in each cell, glabrous. 
Capsule small (commonly { in. long), ellipsoid, compressed, dehiscing 
with elasticity ; the placente separate from the capsule-wall, and 
spring up from the bottom. Seeds 4 (or more often 2) to the capsule, 
with many hygroscopic hairs. 
Small shrubs; leaves entire; inflorescence of contracted monopodial cymes, 
often reduced to single flowers, as nearly always in the South African species ; 
bract to each flower small, narrow, or 0. 
Species 18, in Africa and the Mascarene Islands, 1 in India. 
; i . Anders. (in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 26), su 
Aig Amgen pi ar alacant in Sees tevin West Africa, is Potaticwn 
Currori, S. Moore (cf. Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 91); but was really collected in 
Angola, ages 
Leaves linear, ;,-4 in- broad... say ee .» (1) linifolium, 
Leaves oblong, bd in. broud ss... ves ae .-. (2) oblongifolium. 
1. P. linifolium (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 27, t. 143); nearly glabrous ; 
stem 2-3 ft., erect, branched; leaves 1 by 4—% in.; flowers scattered, 
mostly solitary ; bracteoles > by 1 in., finally white with reticulating 
green veins ; calyx }—} in. long; teeth 5, unequal, much longer than 
the tube, minutely hairy ; corolla-tube % in. long; limb 14 in. 
in diam. ; capsule 1-3 by } in. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vii. 25. 
