90 xcvni. ACANTHACEiE (clarke). [Petalidium, 



ovate, often 2-seeded. — Pseudohurhria Welvjitschii, Lindau in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 300. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 504 ! 



5. P. halimoides, S. Moore in Joimi. Bot. 1880, 228. Procumbent 

 shrub ; innovations tomentose with more or less persistent stellate 

 hairs. Leaves \\ in. in diam., roundish ; petiole ^ in. long. Flowers 

 in dense heads often in the lower part of the stems, intermixed with 

 sterile branches 1 in. long, which in fruit harden into spines ; bracteoles 

 I in. long, or a little more, reticulately veined. Calyx | in. long ; 

 segments obtuse, 2 anticous connate j their length. Corolla red ; tube 

 J in. long, dilated upwards. Filaments glabrous except at the base ; 

 anthers minutely tailed. Capsule \ in. long, often 2-seeded. — P. loranthi- 

 foliuniy S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 227, 228. Barl&)na halimoideSy 

 Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 231 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 32. 

 Pseudoharleria halimoides and P. loranthifolia, Lindau in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 300. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Mossamede?, We/tvifscfi, 4Qd7 \ and without precise 

 locality, Cur r or ! 



6. P. lanatuxn, C. B, Clarke. Densely woolly with white dendroid 

 hairs. Leaves 2J by 1 in., wool disappearing with age, tip triangular 

 apiculate; petiole 0-J in. long. Spikes oblong up to 2 by \ in., or 

 ovoid, very dense, mostly near the base of the branches ; linear bracts 

 |-f in. long, of sterile branches numerous exceeding the bracteoles ; 

 brfict \ in. long, hnear ; bracteoles | in. long, reticulately veined. 

 Calyx \ in. long ; 2 anticous segments connate | their length. Corolla 

 brown-orange {Engler); tube \ in. long; lobes small narrow. Fila- 

 ments hairy ; anthers (at least of the anticous stamens) minutely 

 tailed. »StyIe thinly hairy, one branch suppressed. — Pseudoharleria 

 lanata, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 258; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 300. 



Xiower Guinea. German South West Africa : Hereroland ; Hykamkab, 1200 

 it., Marloth, 1280 ! 



7. P. ovatum, C. B. Clarke. Undershrub, up to 3 ft. high, densely 

 white-tomentose with minute adpressed, not stellate, hairs. Leaves 

 I by J in., ovate, thick ; petiole up to y\r in. long. Inflorescence in 

 small rather loose cymes ; bract ^^ in. long ; bracteoles h in. long, 

 ovate, reticulately veined. Calyx \ in. long ; two anticous segments 

 connate nearly to the top. Corolla-tube \ in. long ; anther-cells 8, all 

 distinctly and minutely white-spurred. Capsule hardly exceeding \ in. 

 long; style-base enlarged with two discs on the posticous face (like 

 those generally present in Blepharis). — Pseudoharleria ovata, Schinz in 

 Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 198. 



Iiower Guinea. German South West Africa: Dammaraland ; Otjimbingue, 

 Lindner ! Kaoko, Belck, 20 ! 



