38 xcviii. ACANTHACEiE (burkill). [Brillantaisia. 



** Stknanthium, Inflorescence a spike. 



Leaves with scattered hairs 19.-5. madagascariensis. 



Leaves glabrous 20. -S. verruadosa. 



1. B. Lamiuzn^ Benth. in Hook. }^Hger Flora, ill. Herbaceous, 

 3-4 ft. high (Mann). Stem somewhat pilose. Leaves cordate or 

 cordate-ovate, acuminate, forming a small wing to the upper end of the 

 petiole, pilose on both sides, entire or nearly so ; the uppermost sessile. 

 Inflorescence a lax panicle, glandular-pubescent ; lower bracts ovate. 

 Calyx-segments equal, acute, rather sparingly clad with glandular haiis. 

 Corolla deep blue ; tube \ in. long, sUghtly exceeding the calyx-seg- 

 ments ; lips 7-8 lin. long. Staminodes densely glandular. Capsule 

 IJ in. long, glabrous, with about 20 seeds to each valve. — Leucorhaphis 

 Lamium, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 07. Brillantaisia owariensis, Hook, 

 (partly), Bot. Mag. t. 4717, fig. 3; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 339; 

 T. Anders, in Joarn. Linn. Soc. vii. 21 (not of Beauv.). B. Palisotiiy 

 Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 99 ; and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 3B. 296, fig. 119 (not typical) ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 146. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Kortright Hill, Freuss (ex Lindau), and without 

 precise locality, ^y^eZiws (ex Lindmi)\ Liberia: Cape Palmas, Ansell! Gold Coast, 

 jBurton & Cameron ! Togoland : Misahohe, Baumaiin, 67 I Bisniarckburg, Biittner, 

 231 (ex Lindau). Lagos : near Otto, Millen, 7 I Abeokuta, Irving ! Lower Niger : 

 Onitsa, Barter, 103 ! Niger Delta : Nun Kiver, Vogel, 17 ! Cameroons : Bipinde, 

 Zenker, 1104 ! Rio del Key, Johnston! Mungo, Buchholz (ex JAndau). 



Xiower Guinea. Princes Island, Rattray! Mann, 1142 ! Island of St. Thomas : 

 Kio de Ourn, Sandade, Qvintos, 88 (ex Henriques), Blv.blu, Nov;i Moka, 2800 ft., 

 Moller (ex Henriques). 



South Central. Lunda : Bashilange; Lulua River, Pogge, 1123 (ex Lindau). 



2. B. Eznini, Lindau in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 103. Stem tall, pilose 

 above. Lower leaves unknown, uppermost cordate, sessile, acuminate, 

 entire, pilose, thin. Inflorescence a loose panicle, glandular. Calyx- 

 teeth acute, nearly equal, glandular. Corolla-tube h in. long, with 

 glandular hairs outside ; lips violet, 1-1 J in. long, with glandular hairs 

 outside ; teeth of the lower lip small. Staminodes densely glandular. 

 Capsule 1| in. long, glabrous, with 16 seeds to each cell. 



mxozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Karagwe ; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3644 I 

 3995. 



It is very doubtfully distinct from B. Lamium. The upper leaves of this and B. 

 Laniium are very similar ; in the loose panicle and long capsules they agree very 

 closely ; tlu- only obvious point of difference between them is in the size of the glandular 

 coroUa, and it will be granted that this is a very unsatisfactory one. I have only seen 

 a very small fragment. 



3. B. pubescenSy T. Ariders. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 125. 

 A low very aromatic herb. Stem densely covered with long white 

 glandular hairs, pale in colour. Leaves ovate, contracted gradually to 

 both extremities, or the upper ones obtuse at the apex, pilose above, 

 pubescent below, entire, 4 in. long, 1 J in. wide ; petiole | in. long, 

 pilose. Inflorescence very much branched, like the stem glandular 

 pilose ; bracts spathulate. Calyx-segments linear subspathulate, covered 

 with glandular hairs. Corolla-tube narrow, curved in large flowers, 



