30 acanriAcea (Clarke). [ Blepharis. 
4 by 4 in., lanceolate at either end, spinous-toothed ; petiole 0-2 in. 
long ; spikes up to 4 by 2 in., 8-14-flowered ; bracts 13-2 in. long, 
upper half lanceolate, recurved, with 9-13 long spines ; bracteoles 
= by § in.; calyx nearly glabrous without, densely hairy within; 
anticous segment 3 in. long; corolla more than 1 in. long, bluish. 
Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 260, Acanthodium squarrosum, Nees in 
DC. Prod. xi. 275; Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 93. 
‘Kananart Ruearon: Griqualand West ; Boetsap, 4000 ft., Marloth, 962 ex 
Engler. Orange River Colony; Great Vet River, Zeyher, 1404! Burke! Trans- 
vail; Klerksdorp, Nelson, 307! between Mamusa and Homans Vley, Holub, 
2028! 2029! 
19. B. longispica (C. B. Clarke) ; hairy ; stems branched, stout, 
with internodes 1-4 in. long; leaves approximated in fours, upper 
pair up to 43 by = in,, spinous-toothed, when mature glabrescent, 
lower pair similar but rather smaller; spikes terminal (on quasi- 
peduneles 1-4 in, long), up to 5 by 1} in., often 20-flowered, densely 
hairy ; on the peduncles are a few distant lanceolate bracts about 3 in. 
long ; bracts (of the spikes) 11 in. long, ovate, shortly acute, with 
15 spines ; bracteoles 3 by zo In.; calyx hairy within and without : 
anticous segment 2 in. long; corolla 1; in. long, white. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; near Estcourt, 3600 ft., Wood, 671! 3509! 
Colenso, 3100 ft., Wood, 903! MacOwan, Herb. Aust-Afr., 1510! 3200 ft., 
Schlechter, 6683 ! 
This plant bears a general resemblance to B. hirtinervia in the long leaves and 
long hairy spikes, but, of the four approximated leaves the two outer are not here 
reduced to spines. As to the: few scattered bracts on the quasi-peduncles, I do 
not recall anything like them in the genus, 
20. B. pruinosa (Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 260%); minutely 
scabrous-pubescent or glabrate ; stems 8 in. long, rigid, internodes up 
to 1} in. long ; leaves approximated in fours, the upper pair 1-14 by 
i-% in., oblong or subelliptic, subentire (i.e. without lobes), with 
scattered spinous teeth, minutely scabrous ; petiole 0-2 in. long, 
axillary spines (i.e. the basal bracts of the next year’s spikes) 1 in. 
long, linear, simple; spikes 1-1} in. long, axillary, 2—5-flowered ; 
bracts 3-1 by 4-1 in., acuminate into a lanceolate tip, glabrous, 
pruinose, nerves conspicuously white, spinous teeth 9 and up to + in, 
long; bracteoles 2 in. long, linear; anticous calyx-segment 2 in, 
long ; posticous sepal % in. long, hairy within; corolla 4-1 in. long, 
blue. Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 318. B. 
Jurcata, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 35, partl 
Coast Reeton: Uitenhage Div. ; Uitenhage, Bowie, 2! 
Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; Shawbury, on the Tsitsa River, 1500- 
1800 ft., Baur, 201! Natal; near Durban, Sutherland! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 1273! 
The plant above described is Sutherland’s, Engler’s B. pruinosa is not known 
to me by any authentic specimen. The description appears to agree very well 
with Sutherland’s plant; but Engler’s B. pruinosa was Marloth, 1444, ‘from 
Hereroland, a remote locality, with a totally different climate, 
