82 xcviii. ACANTHACE.E (burkill), [IlT/grophila. 



Fl. Abyss, li. 14G. A. macrantha, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 

 ii. 146. 



ITpper Guinea. Se.nega.mh\a, IFeudelot, 180 I GsLmhla, Botela f Brown- Lester f 

 Gold CoaHt : Cape Coast Castle, Vogel! Keating! Accra, Don! and without precise 

 locality, Thonmng (ex Schumacher). Lagos: Abeokuta, Eowland! Ogun River, 

 Millen, 72 ! and without precise locality. Barter^ 20164 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, 

 Barter, 773 ! 



Xlle Ziand. Galabat : Matamma, Schiveinfurth, 82 ! Abyssinia : Tigre ; near 

 Adowa, Quartin- Dillon & Petit, 4 ! 300 ! IMount Sholoda, Schimper, 343 ! near Axum, 

 Schimver, 1521 ! Hamedo, 4600 ft., Schimper, bbl I Mai Terkellem, 6000 ft. , >Sb/ump«r, 

 557 ! between Keren and Gondar, Steudner, 1498 (ex Engler). Upper Senaar : 

 Fazokl, Kotschy, 496 ! Fashoda, on the AVhite Nile, Schweinfurth, 1097 ! Kordofan : 

 Mount Arasch-Cool, margins of muddy places, Kotschy, 114 ! between Obeid and 

 Mulbes, Pfund, 428 ! and without precise locality, Kotschy, 49 ! Soraaliland : Coromma, 

 in damp shady places, Riva, 625 (ex Lindau). British East Africa : Bongoland ; by 

 the River Sabbi, Schiveinfurth, 26191 Madi, Speke & Grant! Unyoro, Speke c& 

 Grant, 582 1 Giriama Mountains, near Mombasa, Gregory ! 



XiO\(rer Guinesl. Angola : Gambos, Johnston ! Huilla ; Humpata, Johnston ! 

 German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 9 ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; below Ma jame, 3300 ft., 

 Volkens, 1621 I Unyamwezi ; Mininga, Speke & Grant, 66 ! Portuguese East 

 Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Lower Zambesi; Expedition Island, Kirk! between 

 Shupanga and the Shire River, Stewart! Mankokwe's village, on the Lower Shire, 

 Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasaland, between Kondowe and Karonga, Whytet 

 Fort Hill, Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 805 I 1113 I 



Widely distributed also in India and Ceylon. 



2. H. barbata^ T. Anders, in Jomm. Linn. Soc. vii. 22. A small 

 plant much branched from the root ; branches spreading, pilose when 

 young. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, acute above, tapering very 

 gradually to the base, somewhat hispid, attaining 2 in. in length and 

 2 lin. in breadth. Flowers in dense axillary whorls ; bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, not exceeding the calyces, hispid. Calyx-segments linear, 

 hispid, 2 lin. long, the posterior a little longer than the others. Corolla- 

 tube about 1 lin. long; upper lip beaked, hairy, the beak being 

 fringed with long hairs, lower 3-fid. Stamens of 2 lengths ; filaments 

 not broadened. Capsule 2-3 lin. long, about 8-seeded. — Physichilus 

 barbatus, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 82. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, by the River Casamanze, Heudelot, 573 ! Sierra 

 Leone : Samu ; near Ruka, on u sandy plateau, Scott-Elliot, 4329 1 between forty-five 

 and seventy miles north-east of Sierra Leone, Garrett ! 



3. H. lutea, T. Anders, in lourn. Linn. Soc. vii. 22. Erect plant 

 with long internodes and few leaves; stems hispid. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, sessile, hispid on both surfaces, obtuse above, H in. long 

 and 4 lin. broad. Flowers in few, densely aggregated whorls ; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate or Hnear, hispid, about 5 lin. long. Calyx-segments 

 linear, hispid, 3-4 lin. long; posterior slightly exceeding the others. 

 Corolla bright yellow, small. 



upper Guinea. Lower Niger : Onitsa, i?rtWer, 1163 ! 



A species distinct in its round whorls of flowers, white with the hairs of the calyx 

 and bracts, but described from rather iiuperfcct material. 



4. H. nliginosa, aS'. Mocre in Journ. Bot. 1880, 197. Stem erect, 

 unbranched, with few leaves, somewhat hispid below, becomicg more so 



