32 ACANTHACE& (Clarke). [ Blepharis. 
calyx-segment } in. long; posticous sepal % in. long, ovate-oblong 
upwards, wider at the top, truneate, somewhat scarious and coloured ; 
corolla 1 in. long, blue. 
Var. B, explicatior, C. B. Clarke; larger in all parts; leaves up to 12 in. 
long; bracts up to 14 in. long; bracteoles nearly 1 in. long; calyx more 
hairy. 
Coast ReGion: Stutterheim Div.; Kabousie River, 2100 ft., Flanagan, 
593! 
CenrraL ReaGion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 
! 
Katanari Reaion; Transvaal; Hooge Veld, at Trigards Fontein, Rehmann, 
6711! Var. 8: Transvaal ; at Apies Poort, Rehmann, 4099! 4100! ina journey 
to Johannesburg, Miss Saunders, 2! 
EasteRN Ree@ion: Griqualand East; near Clydesdale and Ibisi, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 1152! bank of asmall stream near Ibisi River, Wood, 3060! Natal ; 
Zuur Berg, Wood, 879! 
25, B. procumbens (Pers. Syn. ii. 180) ; puberulous and sparsely 
hairy ; stems 6-18 in. long, much branched, procumbent, internodes 
up to 1 in. long; leaves often approximated in fours, subsimilar, 
3-1} by 3— in,, linear or linear-oblong, deeply toothed, spinous, 
scarcely petioled ; spikes axillary, ovoid, up to 12 by 1 in., 1-8- 
flowered; bracts 1 in. long, ovate, shortly acute, with recurved points, 
and with 15-25 very narrow closely placed softly hairy marginal spines ; 
bracteoles % by 53, in.; calyx hairy within and without; anticous 
segment $—{ in. long ; corolla exceeding | in. in length, blue; capsule 
% in. long, 4-seeded, or much shorter and with 2 larger seeds and the 
2 lower ovules infertile. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 85 
partly ; Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 71; Lindau in Engl. ¢& Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 318. B. glomerata, Poir. Eneyel. Suppl. i. 89, 
Acanthus procumbens, Linn. J. Suppl. 294; Thunb. Prod. 97, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 456 ; B. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, 127, 131, 161. A, glomeratus, Lam. Encyel. i. 23. 
Acanthodium procumbens, Nees in Linnea, xv. 362, and in DC. Prod. 
xi. 273; Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 92, Blepharacanthus procumbens, 
Drége in Linnea, xx. 200, Blepharanthus procumbens, Hook. 
Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 126. 
Sout AFRIcA: without precise locality, Masson ! Oldenburg ! 
Coast Reeton: Uitenhage Div. ; by the Sunday River and Coega River, 
Drége! between Zwartkops River and Coega River, Krauss, 1118, near the 
Zwartkops River, Zcklon § Zeyher, 242 ! Grassrug, Baur, 1021! Port Elizabeth 
Div. ; Algoa Bay, Cooper, 3039! Hamansdorp Diy., Thunberg ! Niven, 24! 88! 
Alexandra Div. ; Bushman’s River, Bowie, 4! 
CentTRAL ReGion : Somerset Div. ; Sunday River, Bowie, 5! 
26. B. inequalis (C. B. Clarke) ; hairy; branches 4—9 in. long, 
with internodes 1-2} in. long; leaves often approximated in fours, 
whereof the upper pair is 13-2} by i in., linear, with few remote 
scarcely spinous teeth, the lower pair similar but smaller (or some- 
times much smaller and subentire) ; spikes axillary, often in the 
forks of the branches, ovoid, 2-5-flowered 3 bracts } by 4 in., obovate, 
