76 xcviii. ACANTHACEiE (clarke). [Dysckoriste. 



Upper Guinea. North Bank of the River Gambia, Ozanne, 8! Cameroons; 

 4000 ft., Fassarge, 121a! 



The calyx is often minutely pedicellate above tlie bractcoles ; and there is seen 

 sometimes a shoot from the axil of a bracteole. 



i?>. D. capricomiSy C. B. Clarke. Glandular-pubebcent ; branchlets 

 woody. Leaves J- J by J-iin., obtuse, nearly sessile. Cymes axillary, 

 dense, o-8-flowered ; bracteoles ^^ in. long, linear. Calyx 1 in. long, 

 divided less than J way down, glandular-pubescent without, white-hairy 

 within ; cystoliths hardly prominent ; teeth lanceolate, aristate. Corolla 

 'I in. long ; linear-cylindric portion of tube ^ in. long. Stamens, pollen, 

 pisti], ovules, of the genus. 



South-'West Afl>lca. South lat. 23°, Chapman Sf Baines ! 



It. D. heudelotiana, 0. Kuntze^ Rev. Gen. 486. Pubescent and 

 thinly hairy. Leaves up to o by J — 1 in., narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 

 subsessile, puberulous, a few scattered white hairs added. Cymes 

 axillary, small, o-l -flowered ; bracteoles ^-J in. long, linear. Calyx 

 i-§ in. long, divided more than | way down, pubescent without, white- 

 hairy within ; cystoliths slender. Corolla 1 in. long, purple ; Hnear- 

 cylindric portion of the tube nearly J in. long. Stamens, pollen, pistO, 

 ovules, capsule (nearly J in. long) as of genus. — Calophmies heudelotianus^ 

 Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 112 ; T. Andere. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 23. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Bondou, Heudelot, 18 (ex Nees), Heudelot, 144 ! 

 190 ! and without precise locality. 



15. D. linifolia, C. B. Clarke. Viscid glandular-hairy; branch 

 IG in. long. Leaves 1 by \-\ in., narrow elliptic, subsessile, viscid 

 glandular-hairy ; cystoliths obscure. Flowers axillary, 2 together 

 or solitary ; bracts \ in. long, linear-oblong. Calyx J in. long, divided 

 I the way down, glandular-hairy ; tube within white-hairy ; cystoliths 

 obscure; teeth linear, obtuse. Corolla nearly Ih in. long, linear- 

 cylindric poi-tion of tube § in. long. Stamens, poUen, pistil, as of genus. 

 — Calophanes linifoliusj T. Anders. MS. in Hb. Kew. 



Mozamt). Dist. British Central Africa : Northern Zambesia ; Batoka High- 

 lands. Kirk ! 



IG. D. Hildebrandtii, Lindau in Engl, d; Prantl, Pflanzenfcum. 

 iv. oB. o02. Pubescent, more or less villous; branches 12-16 in. 

 long. Leaves 1 \ by J in., elliptic, obscurely crenulate ; cystoliths not 

 prominent ; petioles U-^ in. long. Cymes axillary, small, 8-10- 

 flowered ; bracteoles less than \ the length of the calyx, linear. Calyx 

 rather more than h in. long, divided | the way down ; tube scabrous- 

 pubescent without, white hairy within ; cystoliths not prominent. 

 Corolla IJ in. long, purple; linear-cylindric portion of the tube J in. 

 long. Stamens and pistil of the genus. Capsule J in. long, linear- 

 cylindric, 4-seeded ; seeds covered with hygroscopic hairs. — Lindau in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367. Calophanes Hildebrandtii, S. Moore in 

 Journ. Bot. 1880, 8. 



