28 NEW GENERA OF S. AFRICAN PLANTS. 
rigidus, persistens, 5-partitus, laciniis obtusis, tribus interio- 
ribus minoribus. Corolla unilabiata, tubo incurvo, fauce 
latiore, latere superiore fisso; limbo (v. labio) antico, plano, 
quinquelobo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, exserta, 
equalia ; filamenta subulata, compressa ; anthere uniloculares, 
adnate, verticales, margine subciliate. Ovarium biloculare, 
loculis 2-ovulatis. Stylus filiformis, persistens; stigma 
minutum, bifidum. Capsula coriacea, bilocularis, disperma. 
Suffrutex erectus; folis oppositis, ovato-lanceolatis, sub- 
acuminatis, patentibus, glabris; petiolis, ramulisque pubes- 
centibus ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, subsessilibus ; sepalis 
bracteisque multistriatis, maxime rigidis, capsulam amplec- 
tentibus. 
This description is taken from a curious plant, probably 
from Natal, distributed by Drége without name, under the 
number 4037. Its habit is more that of some Justiciee, 
than of any genus of Acanthee, to which latter tribe, how- 
ever, it would seem to belong. 
15. AcanTuopsis. Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis posticà et 
anticà multo majoribus, anticà bidentatá. Corolla tubo tenui, 
unilabiata, labio (antico) breviter quinquelobo, lobo medio 
majore, lateralibus auriculiformibus ; margine posticá emargi- 
natà, dente (stamen quintum?) in sinu posità. Stamina 4, a- 
pice corolla tubi inserta, exserta ; antherze omnes uniloculares, 
barbate, ad apicem subulatam filamenti puncto medio affixc 
(nec oscillantes). Ovarium....? Stylus filiformis; stigma 
eeu apsula....? Herbe ; foliis spinoso-dentatis ; spicis 
densis, terminalibus, bracteis multifidis, rigidis, spinosis. 
Acanthodium dispermum, E. Mey! in Herb. Drége, of 
which I have received but a very imperfect specimen, is the 
type of this genus, to which also, probably, 4. plumosum of 
the same collection belongs, but my fragment of that plant 
is even more wretched. Acanthodium, of De Lille, judging by 
Endlicher’s description, must be something very different, 
agreeing with our plant merely in characters which are com- 
mon to all the Acanthee, namely the peculiar calyx, and the 
