24 xcviii. ACANTHACEiE (burkill). [Thunhergia. 



Stamens with a long mucro above and with short spurs to each lobe. 

 Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. Unripe capsule with 

 very short hairs and a long beak. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Afiica: Usambara ; upper part of Schi (Mshi?) 

 Mountains, JIulst, 2131 



1 have seen a leaf and a young froit with its bracteoles. The rest of the description 

 is quoted from Engler's Jahrbiichor. 



44. T. Schweinfurthii, S. Moore in Joum. Bat. 1880, 6. An erect 

 herb. Stem strigose, densely hairy at the nodes, striate when dry. 

 Leaves on short petioles about 2 lin. long, the leaf-blade 3-nerved, 

 narrowly lanceolate, "Jh in. long, 7 lin. broad, shortly mucronate above, 

 narrowed and hastate below, the upper surface strigose, the lower 

 covered with a tawny pubescence. Flowers on peduncles about half 

 as long as the leaves ; bracteoles ovate, lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, 

 white with green reticulations, strigose on the back. Calyx cupular. 

 Corolla IJ in. long; lobes about 2 lin. long. Stamens mucronate, 

 slightly bearded below, one anther-lobe of the ventral pair with a 

 hook at its base. Stigma triangular, the lateral angles barbellate, 

 the ventral margin scarcely notched, the dorsal angle slightly hairy, 

 its apex rounded. 



srile Ziand. British East Africa: Jur ; near the Seriba of Kurshook Ali, 

 Sdm-einfurth, 1510 ! 



This species in very closely allied to T. mollis. 



45. T. lathyroides, Burkill. Stem erect, glabrous, sulcate when 

 dry. Leaves sessile, hastate, entire, mucronate at the apex and also 

 in the auricles, 2 in. long, | in. broad, glabrous. Flowers on glabrous 

 peduncles about 1 J in. long; bracteoles lanceolate, blunt, glabrous, 

 5-nerved. Calyx truncate. Corolla-tube nearly 1^ in. long; lobes 

 about J in. long. Anthers of the ventral pair of stamens with a 

 short spur at the base of one lobe, all mucronate above and pilose 

 below. Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. 



Mozaxnb. I>l8t. British Central Africa : Urungu : Fwambo, at about 5250 It,, 

 Carson, 4 ! Nutt! iScott- Elliot, 8269 ! 



40. T. angoiensis, S. Moore in Joum. Bot. 1880, 195. Stem erect, 

 covered with a thick felt of white hairs. Leaves obovate, sessile, entire, 

 1^ in. long, f in. broad, covered like the stem with white hairs on both 

 surfaces. Flowers on peduncles about 1 in. long; bracteoles ovate, 

 obtuse, 1 in. long, felted outside, glabrous within. Calyx glabrous; 

 teeth triangular. Corolla-tube \\ in. long; lobes J in. long, purple. 

 Anthers with a long mucro above, rounded below, and the lower pair 

 with a curved spur. Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular, barbellate. 



Iio-wer Guinea. Anp:ola : Huilla; between Mumpulla and Hurapata, in thickets 

 Welicitsch, 5037 ! between Mumpulla and Nene, Welwitsch, 5038 ! 



47. T. oblongifolia, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 12;"), t. 123. 

 Stem erect, pilose or glabrescent on the internodes, sulcate when dry. 

 Leives sessile, obovate or somewhat spathulate, obtuse above, clad on 



