82 



ovato-oblongo apice obtuso vel rotundato mncronato 9 mm. longo 

 6 mm. lato, antico ovato-oblongo apice obtuse mucronato 8 mm. 

 longo 5 mm. lato, lateralibus lanceolatis apice acute mucronati& 

 8 mm longis 2 mm. latis. Corolla bilabiata, 4"7 cm, longa, tubo 

 1'3 cm. longo, labio antico oblanceolato-oblongo integro apice 

 rotundato 2 cm. longo 9 mm. lato, postico 3*4 cm. longo 2'7 cm* 

 lato 4-oblato, lobis apice leviter emarginatis vel rotundatis^ 



lateralibus obovatis 1*5 cm . longis 1 • 1 cm , latis^ intermediis 

 oblanceolato-oblongis 1'5 cm, longis 7 mm. latis. Stamina 2, 

 filamentis 3 cm. longis glabris, antlieris 4 mm. longis; pollinis 

 granula globosa, 110 ^x^ diametro; staminodia duo, 2 mm. longa. 

 Discus 1*75 mm. altus; integer. Ovariuvi obpyriforme, 5 mm. 

 altum, 2*25 mm. diametro, glabrum^ biloculare, loculis uniovu- 

 latis; stylus 3'3 cm. longus, glaber. 



Madagascar. Ambotaba — MelolDa (?), P. A. Metliuen 30. 



1487. Cardanthera parviflora, Ttirrill [Acantliaceae-Acantlioi- 



] 



mmore 



guitur. 



Herha erecta, ramosissima, ramis hirsutis bisulcatis. Folia 

 oblongo-vel lineari-oblanceolata, apice acuta, basi le\iter angus- 



mmusv 



grosse serrata vel pectinata, liirsuta, costa pag'ina utraque leviter 

 prominente, nervis lateralibus inconspicuis. Flores 4-7 in 



L axillis agregati. Calyw Mrsutus, segmentia 



loriim 



5 linearibus acutis, 



mm 



mm 



Corollas tubus 2 mm. 



mm 



labium nosticum 



bifidum 



anticum 5 mm. long 



lobis obovato-ellipticis 2 mm. longis 1"5 mm. latis basi lineis 

 longitudinalibus €arnosis aurantiacis ornatis. Stamina 4, fila- 

 mentis 6 mm. lon<?is o-labris: antbprafi 1 mm. TnncrnP InmilTc l^^ir^^- 



diametro 



mm 



i / X o o — ' WW J 



naliter costata. Ovarium cylindricum, 2'25 



diametro, glabrum; stylus (cum stigmate) 5'6 mm. longus, hir- 

 sntus. Capstila biconvexe cylindrica, 4'5 mm. alta, 1'5 mm. 

 diametro, yalde bisulcata, glabra, retinaculis parvis baud cur- 

 vatis; semina numerosa, biconvexe ovoideo-oblonga, dense et 

 molliter pubescentia. 



Tropical Africa. Nortbern Nigeria: Abinsi, a herb in ric^ 

 fields, Dec. 1912, /, M, Dalziel 720, 



Synnema has generally but incorrectly been considered an 

 earlier name for Cardanthera. Synnema was described by 



am 



y- ~ , .. .. .^y „ «.^-.j.^V^ ^ATV^Xi K^^ 



in MS,, was first published by Voigt in '' H 



Outtensis,'' 1845. T>. 482. bpirifr ha«Pr1 n-n 7 



Ham 



fl 



It is therefore clear that since Synnema, Benth. is not a nomen 

 conservandum it must, according to the Vienna rtrles, he replacetl 

 hy CaKclantJiera, 'Buch. -Ham. ex Yolgt^ • 



