Euellia.] xcviii. acanthace.^ (clarke). 45 



Calyx-segments 5, free nearly to the base. 



Leaves 3^ in. long, ovate, acute, base subcordate 10. B. amnhilis. 



Leaves 2 in. long, ovate, subobtuse . . . 11. ^. megachlamys. 

 Calyx with the 2 anticous segments connate some 



way up 12. y?. hignoniceflora. 



Corolla-tube upper half greatly inflated . . .13. It. Ourrori. 

 ** Eu-RuELLiA. Capsule oblong-cylindric. Seeds dis- 

 tributed nearly its whole length. 



Leaves with long white soft hairs 14. ^. diver si folia. 



Leaves closely densely pubescent 15. JL Marhthii. 



1. R. patula, Jacq. Misc. Bot. ii. ''^^^'f^. Small shrub, gre}-- pubescent 

 or sparsely hairy. Leaves from J by ^ to 2-i- by l\ in., ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse or tip depressed-triangular, suddenly narrowed into a petiole 

 |— 1 in. long. Cymes small, axillary; bracteoles 2 or 3 times the 

 length of the calyx, spathulate-oblong, often petioled. Calyx rarely 

 exceeding \ in. in length, deeply divided ; segments subequal, acute. 

 Corolla up to IJ in. long, purple-blue or white ; tube much inflated, 

 linear-cylindric portion \ in. long (small examples with corolla | in. 

 long and small leaves and capsules are common). Ovary glabrous, 

 glandular close to the style-base. Capsule ^ in. long, clavate. — Jacq. 

 Ic. PI. Rar. i. 12, t. Ill); Lam. 111. t. 550; Tr Anders, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. vii. 24; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 127; C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 412 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 388 ; 

 Lindau in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 310, fig. 124, E, F, 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. t. 1, fig. 24, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 368, and in 

 Ann. Istit. bot. Roma vi. [1896] 70. R. prostrata. Lam. Encycl. vi. 

 349 from descript. ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 282. R. moMttina, Hochst. 

 et Steud. ex Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 94. Dipteracanthits patulus^ Nees in 

 Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. iii. 82 & in DC. Prod. xi. 126; Wight Ic. PI 

 Ind. Or. t. 1505; Oersted in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. 1854, 180, t. 4, 

 figs. 19-21 ; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. 109, 243. 

 D. matutinus, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 94. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Brass! 



larile Iiand. Nubia : near Suakin, Schweinf urth, 125 ! 300 ! 397 ! Nubian 

 Coast, Bent! Schweivfurth, 367 I Eritrea : Massowa, Hildehrandt, 12b \ near Saati. 

 Schweinfurth d: Biva, 284 ! 318 ! Keren, Steudner, 1496 ! Habab, 6000 ft., HiUit- 

 hra-ndt, 452 1 461 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 119 ! 159b ! Pfund, 317 ! 424 ! Abyssinia : 

 Salt! Ehrenherg! Bohlfs & Stecker! Schimper, 268! Tigre, 6500 ft.. Schimper. 

 229 ! Somaliland : at Adda Galla, Darror, and Harradigit, James db Thnipp! Dobar 

 Weni, and Gooban Plain, Miss E.Cole & Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Ahl Mountains, 32^0 ft., 

 Bildehrandt, 1403 ! British East Africa : Madi, Speke d- Grant ! Tana River, 

 Thomas, 90 ! Ukamba, Hildebrandt, 2927 ! 



I.ower Guinea. Angola: Lnanda, Welwitsch, 5069! 5121! 5127! 5139 1 

 5186 ! Elephant Bay, Curror, 21 ! 



Mozamb. I>ist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Hildehrandt, 984 ! 1833 ! German East 

 Africa : Tanga, 5o/.sf, 2075 ! British Central Africa : Matabeleland, ^///o/« .' Nganii- 

 land ; Kwebe, Lucjard, 45 ! 49 ! 68 ! 



2. R. praetermissa, lAndau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 15. Leaves up to 

 3 by If in., ovate, tip narrow-triangular subacute, thinly inspersed by 

 cystoliths and a few hairs on both faces ; otherwise as A', patula. — 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 310. 



