Crossandra.'] xcviii. acanthace^ (clarke). Ha 



J in. long ; lobes \ in. long or rather more. Anthers hairy ; pollen 

 long-oblong. Style glabrous. — C. parvifolia, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 

 XX. 37, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319. 



Nile Ziand. Somaliland : Y\.9.v!\v, PaulitschJce ; Maid, 5000-oOCO ft., Hilde- 

 hrandt, 1404 ! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips. 



7. C. nilotica, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 128, t. 85. 

 Pubescent, 1-2 ft. high. Basal leaves or small; branch -leaves up 

 to 4 by IJ in., elliptic, much narrowed at both ends, tip obtuse, base 

 decurrent ; petiole up to |-1 in. long. Peduncles 0-4 in. long ; spikes 

 1-2|- by |-1 in., rather dense; bract J-| in. long, obovate-elliptic, 

 herbaceous, softly hairy, margin entire, tip triangular-pointed and not 

 spinescent; bracteoles linear, J in. long. Posticous calyx-segment 

 J-J in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, tip very narrow and with 2 hairy teeth. 

 Corolla-tube |-f in. long, linear; lobes J in. long, obovate, brick-red 

 or oraoge. Anthers hairy ; pollen long-oblong, very square-headed, 

 3-ribbed. Style glabrous. Capsule J in. long, narrowly elliptic, acute, 

 4-seeded. — Oliv. in James, Unknown Horn Afr. 321 ; Lindau in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 370, at least partly. C. infundibuliformis, Franch. Sert. Somal. 50 

 (var. hrachystachys) \ Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 398; not of Salisb. 

 C. hrachystachys, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 319. 

 Crossandra sp., T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile Append. 643. 



Nile I.and. Britisli East Africa : Madi, Speke Sf Grant, 685 ! Leikipia, 6000- 

 8000 ft., Thomson ! Lake Rudolph, Donaldson Smith ! Dnruma, Hildebrandt, 

 2315! 



XVIozamb. Dlst. Kavala Islands in Lake Tanganyika, Carson, 34 ! German 

 East Africa : Usinja ; Usui, Speke Sf Grant, 135 ! Usambara : Masheua, Hoht, 

 8815 ! Duga, Hoist, 3202a ! Portuguese East Africa : Keritnba Islands, Peters ! 

 British Central Africa: Lake Moero, at Kalangwizi River, Carson, 14! 



Var. acuminata, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370 (at least partly). Tip of 

 bracts more acute or microscopically mucronate. — Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Romavi. 

 (1896) 76. Barleria rhyncocarpa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 204 ; Lindau 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 368. 



xrile Iiand. Eritrea: Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schtoeinfurth ^ Riva, 1567! 

 Donkollo, near Ginda, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 303 ! Abyssinia : Wadi Woina, Itohlfs 

 ^ Sfecker ! and witliout precise locality. Salt ! Steudner, 1513 ! Somaliland : Maid, 

 5000 ft., Hildehrandt, 858 ! 1400 ! Adda-Galla, James Sf Thntpp ! Golis Range, 

 Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole! and without precise locality, Keller, iy7! 



The above cited synonymy is imperfect. The typical Crossandra nilotica of 

 Oliver is known in Berlin as C. hrachystachys, Lindau. 



8. C. leikipiensis, Schweinf. in Hohnel, Zum RudolpJi-See u. 

 Stephanie-See, Sonderahdr. 7. Branchlets woody, covered (as are the 

 leaves) with minute grey simple hairs. Leaves IJ by A in., nanowed 

 at both ends, hardly acute, subsessiJe, margin undulate and sometimes 

 obscurely toothed. Peduncles 2-V) in. long; spikes 1 by ^ in., rather 



