98 xcviii. ACANTHACE^ (clarke). [Blepharis. 



spine-tipped; 2 inmost calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, spine-tipped, 

 as long as the anticous segments. — Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 319. 



Mozamb. l>lat. German East Africa : Bagamoyo, StuUmann, 7259 ! Usuramo, 

 Sluhhnann, 6671 ! 



7. B. Bainesiiy *S'. Moore, MS. Branches hispid with white hairs. 

 Leaves 2 by Jin., linear-oblong, entire, sessile, hispid with white hairs 

 especially on the midrib beneath. One-flowered branches (reduced spikes) 

 densely clustered ; sterile bracts and floral-leaves linear-lanceolate, spine- 

 tipped, not spinous on the margins ; bract h by -^jj in., strongly 3-nerved, 

 obtuse, without spines on the margin, with 1 strong subterminal spine ; 

 bracteoles 0. Posticous calyx-segment J in. long ; 2 inmost calyx- 

 segments J in. long. 



Tropical (t) Afl'lca. South African Gold Fields, Baines ! 



8. B. moUuginifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 180. Procumbent, slender, 

 hairy or nearly glabrate. Leaves apparently 4-nate in distant whorls, 

 up to 1 by J in., from narrow-elliptic to linear-oblong, narrowed at both 

 ends, sessile. One-flowered branches (reduced spikes) sessile, axillary, 

 solitary (rarely 2-3 approximated) ; bract J- J in. long, quadrate-obovate, 

 strongly 3-nerved, with 7-15 spines, each yV-ro i^- ^^^S; round its 

 triangular-obtuse head ; bracteoles J in. long, lanceolate, bristle-tipped. 

 Posticous calyx-segment |-f in. long ; 2 inmost calyx-segments linear- 

 lanceolate, nearly as long. Corolla J in. long. Capsule ^ in. long, 2- 

 seeded. — Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 26G; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ix. 500; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 479. B.saturejifolia, 

 Pers. Syn. ii. 180; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 265; T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vii. 34 ; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 

 317, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-A£r. C. 369. B. rupicola, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 389. B. cuspidata, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. 76. 

 Acanthus integrifolius, Linn. f. Suppl. 294. A, repens, Vahl, Symb. 

 ii. 76. 



TTlle Iiand. Abyssinia ; ScUmper, 521 partly ! Somaliland : near Salole, 2200 ft., 

 niva, 417 ! British East Africa : Ruwenzori, Scott-Mliot, 7534 ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Zanzibar, ex Lindau. German East Africa, Fischer^ 328 ! 



Also in South Africa and India. 



This plant much resembles B. hoerhaavi<sfolia, and is mixed with it in herbaria. 

 It usually has narrower leaves. There is nothing outside the calyx of B. boerhaavice- 

 folia at all like the bracteoles here. 



9. B. setosa, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 265. Leaves 1-1 J by J in., 

 scabrous with several-celled white hairs. Bracteoles terminated by a 

 long white bristle ; otherwise as B. moUuginifolia. — B. Hildehra7idtiiy 

 Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 29, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 3 B. 317, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 369. 



wile I.and. British East Africa : Taita ; Voi River, midebrandt, 2490 ! 

 ]Lower Guinea. Amboland : Olukonda, Schinz, 16 ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



