300 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH 

 MUSEUM ACANTHACE^. 



By Spencer Le M. Moore, F.L.S. 



The following list contains determinations of African AcanthacecB 

 recently received at the Museum, as well as of some which, by 

 accident, were not seen by Mr. C. B. Clarke while working at his 

 two monographs which deal with the Order as represented in 

 Tropical and South Africa. 



Thunhergia affinis S. Moore. Machakos ; Dr. S. L. Hinde, 



T. alata Bojer var. minor (var. uov.). 



Folia parva, nequaquam ultra 2-5 cm. long., modica 1*5 cm. 

 long., margine dentata ; petioli plerumque l*5-2-0 cm. long., 

 angustissime alata. Bracteolae modo 1-3 cm. long. CoroUae tubus 

 nee ultra 1*5 cm. long. 



Hab. Tropical East Africa; Bcv. W. E. Taylor. 



According to the single specimen seen, a lowly twiner, about 

 half a metre in height. 



Thunbergia (§ Euthunbergia) Elliotii, sp. nov. Verisimiliter 

 scandens caule gracili folioso sparsim ramoso appresse hirsutulo, 

 foliis parvis ovatis obtusis basi latis integris nonnunquam leviter 

 undulatis petiolis brevibus alatis fultis utriuque pr^esertim vero 

 subtus hirsutulis, pedunculis solitariis folia sub^quantibus hirsu- 

 tulis, bracteolis ovato-oblongis breviter acuminatis hirsutis, calycis 

 12-lobi lobis anguste lineari-lanceolatis tubum sub^equantibus 

 glanduloso-pubescentibus, corollas tubo parum amplificato bracteis 

 subaequilongo, antheris sursum mucronatis staminum posticorum 

 unicalcaratis anticorum bicalcaratis marginibus fere omnino calvis, 

 stigmatis bilabiati labiis subasquimagnis, capsula . 



Hab. BritishEastAfrica,Nandi, 7-8000 feet; G. F. Scott Elliot, 

 No. 6969. 



Foliorum lamina 2-0-2'5 cm. long., 1-5-2-0 cm. lat., in sicco 

 minutissime buUulata ; petioli 0'3-0'5 cm. long. Pedunculi circa 

 2-0 cm. long. Bracteolae usque ad 2-0 cm. long., 5-nervos^, intus 

 puberulee. Calycis tubus 0-2 cm., lobi 0-25 cm. long. Corollas 

 tubus basi 0-3 cm. sub limbo 055 cm. diam. ; limbus circa 2*0 cm. 

 diam., ejus lobi obovati. Antherte loculi circa 0*3 cm. long. 

 Ovarium 0-2 cm. ; stylus vix 1-0 cm. long. 



Near T. lahorans Burkill, but differing from it in the broad 

 petiolate leaves, acuminate bracteoles, narrower corolla-tube, longer 

 glandular teeth to the flowering calyx, &c. 



Brillantaisia puhescens T. And. Between Zanzibar and Uyui ; 

 Rev. W. E. Taylor. 



B. madagascariensis T. And. Tropical East Africa ; Rev. W. 

 E. Taylor. 



Buellia patula Jacq. Somaliland, Mio, 4750 feet ; Lord Delamere. 



Mellera suhmutica C. B. CI. Nyassaland, 1895 ; Buchanan. 



Miuutlopsis runssorica liUideiVL. Tanganyika; G. E. Scott Elliot, 

 No. 8354. 



