TABULA 2983. 
WARPURIA CLANDESTINA, Stapf. 
ACANTHACEAE. Tribus BARLERIEAE. 
W. clandestina, Stap/ a nig Bull., 1908, p. 261; Beddome in 
Journ. Hort. Soc., vol. x , 1908, p. 96; Benoist, Rech. s. 1, struct. 
et la classific. des phen ee he la tribu des "Barlériées, p. 82. Species 
unica. 
Planta ad 12 cm. alta, pilosa, caule brevi prostrato vel ascendente. 
Folia opposita, approximata, petiolata, oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, 
utrinque acuta vel subacuta, 6-7 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, obscure 
repando-denticulata vel integra, supra cystolithis granoso- -scaberula, 
in costa dense in nervis sparse in parenchymate sparsissime pilis albis 
eres 1 cm. longus, tomentosus. Flores in capitula pedunculo 
m. longo pilis declinatis densis canescente suffulta congesti. 
Senden 15-25 em. diametro, omnibus partibus saison ee 
bracteis 2 linearibus herbaceis 1-1'2 cm. longis 1 mm. latis su 
tentum, bracteis aliis similibus sed minoribus cum pedicellis mixtis ; 
interiores lineares vel lanceolatae, 5-6 mm. longae. Calyx 25-3 mm. 
longus, hyalinus, 5-partitus, segmentis 5 e basi triangulari subulatis 
apice pilo terminatis, posticis 3 fere ad basin distinctis anticis ad medium 
connatis. Corolla alba, 5-6 mm. longa, extra ad os pilosa; tubus 
subcylindricus, rectus ; ‘limbus mbricatus, minutus, clausus, vix 1 mm 
altus, ie rotundis, lateralibus seeniebon, antico intimo, superioribus 
e tamina 4, aequalia, paulo supra medium corollae 
ravers inserta ; filamenta dissita ; antherae albae, ultra 1 mm. longae, 
loculis aequalibus muticis ; pollinis grana sphaerica, reticulato-foveolata. 
Ovarium ovoideo-oblongum, apice pilosulum, 2-loculare, loculis 2- 
ovulatis ; stylus filiformis, magis minusve tortus : stigma 2-labiatum, 
labio supero majore. Capsula oblonga, tertia summa parte in rostrum 
solidum magis minusve contracta, 7 mm. longa, 2-5 mm. lata. Semina 
4, lenticularia, sericea, 2 mm. diametro, eicavita suffulta 
