Fetalidium.] xcviii. acanthace^ (clarke). 93 



spersed; bracts of barren branches linear, 1 by -^jj in., clothed with 

 spreading white hairs ^ in. long ; bracteoles I in. long. Calyx ^ in. 

 long; two anticous segments connate | their length. Corolla dusky 

 blue {E7L(jler) ; tube f in. long, inflated in the upper part. Filaments 

 minutely hairy ; anthers tailed. Disc large pyramidal. Style-branches 

 linear, unequal. Capsule \ in. long. — Pseudobarleria canescenSj Engl, in 

 Engl. Jahrb. x. 258 ; Lindau in Engl, (t Pi-antl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 

 300. 



Iiower Guinea. German South West Africa : Hereroland ; Karribib, 3200 ft., 

 Marloth, 1429 ! Hykamkab, 1000 ft., Ilarlotk, 1199 ! Usakos, Lindner ! 



16. P. Lepidagathis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 227, 228. 

 Glabrous (even innovations) except the inflorescences. Leaves 3|^ by J-1 

 in., lanceolate, tapering at both ends ; petiole up to 1 in. long. Inflores- 

 cences on short axillary branches near the base of the branches, 2-1 by 

 1 in., dense, interspersed with very short sterile branches; bracts to 

 sterile branches j-1 by Jg in. with spreading white hairs ^ in. long ; 

 bracteoles hardly J in. long. Calyx ^ in. long, minutely hairy within 

 and without ; two anticous segments connate nearly to the tip. Corolla 

 red or brownish-red ; tube nearly J in. long, slender, a little dilated at 

 the top ; limb hardly J in. in diam. Filaments glabrous except at the 

 base ; anthers minutely tailed. Capsule scarcely ^ in. long, 2-seeded 

 where seen — Pseudobarleria Lejndagathis, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 300 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6007 1 5020! 



This remarkable species is so closely mimetic of the " radical-flowering '' species of 

 Lepidagathis {L. radicalis, &c.) that an experienced collector might pass it for one. 



17. P, cocciueum, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 225, 228. 

 Stem round, stoutish; innovations softly hairy, a few hairs gland- 

 bearing. Leaves up to 2 J by 2 in., ovate, obtuse, glabrescent, base 

 obtuse or cordate ; petiole f in. long, hairy. Flowers 3-1 together, 

 scattered ; bracteoles up to 1 by | in. (many only J by -| in.) Calyx : 

 posticous segment nearly \ in. long, other segments \ in. long, 2 anticous 

 connate for J their length. Corolla bright red ; tube exceeding 1 in. 

 long, curved at the middle and much inflated above it ; lobes 5, 

 subequal, § in. long, obovate. Filaments glabrous except at the base ; 

 anthers linear, at the base muticous or with a hair. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style sparsely hairy, branches linear, subequal. — Pseudobarleria cocc{?iea, 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 299. 



Xiovrer Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes, Welwitsch,, 5017 ! 5018 ! Huilla, 

 Antunes, 90 ! in thickets by the River Cuneue, Schinz, 10 ! Humbe, banks of the River 

 Cunene, and Chiviqua, Newton ! Amboland : Ondonga, Schinz I 



Lindau esteems this species a I'seudoharleria, in doing which he abandons the 

 only character (viz., the degree of union of 2 anticous calyx-segments) on which the 

 genus Pseudobarleria stands. The analogy of the allied genera, Di/sc/iorisie, Ruellia, 

 &c., warns us that the character need not be made generic. 



