Lepidagathis.] xcviii. acantuace.e (clarke). 127 



Sepals 5, distinct; posticous ^ by i in., ovate, obtuse, hardly miicronate. 

 Corolla I in. long. Capsule ^ in. long, ovoid, acute, glabrous, 2-seeded 

 or (fide ^ees) sometimes 4-seeded. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480 ; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. :Vd ; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 8 B. 318. 



Upper Guinea. 8enegambia, Jleudelof, 666 ! 



18. If. peniculifera, *S'. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 39. Robust; 

 branches at length glabrate. Leaves l\ by ^ in., 3-nerved, tips almost 

 spinescent, with long white simple hairs. Spikes compound, 2 by | in., 

 erect, 1-2-together, in the upper axils; floral leaves uniseriate, densely 

 packed, leathery, ovate with short (or most of them without any) mucro. 

 Sepals 5, distinct, leathery, obtuse, with dense thick hair ; posticous J 

 by J in., ovate. Corolla f in. long ; stamens and pollen as of Eu- 

 Lepidagathis. 



wile Ziand. Mittu : Reggo, t^chweinfurth, 2794 ! 



This species is named trom the spikes theirjaelves representing a painter's bruslj (or 

 a little tail), they remind me of neither. Tiie species differs much from its neigh- 

 bours in the floral leaves being without tails (or very shortly mucrouate). 



19. la. Medusae, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 31). Branches 

 stout, villous. Leaves 4 by J in., 5-nerved, when mature hairy beneath, 

 glabrate above, with transverse cystoliths. Spikes compound, 1 J by ^-| 

 in., 1-2-together, erect, in the upper axils; floral leaves uniseriate, 

 densely packed, hairy, ovate with long deflexed white-hairy tails. Sepals 

 5, all with long recurved white-hairy tails; posticous \ in. long, ovate, with 

 a tail J in. long. Corolla | in. long. Stamens and pollen of Eu-Lepida- 

 gathis. — L. Caput-Medmce, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 3 B. 313. 



Nile liana. Bongo : Ngoli (Nyoli), Schweinfurth, 4076 partly ! 



20. L. pallescens, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 308. Grey- 

 pubescent with small curved hairs. Leaves 2 J by J in., lanceolate, 

 narrowed, obtuse at both ends, subsessile, scarcely 3-nerved, upper 

 surface glabrate with irregularly scattered (not all transversely parallel 

 as in preceding species) cystoliths. Spikes | by J in., in the upper 

 axils, brown, minutely pubescent; floral leaves few seriate. Calyx h in. 

 long, of 5 lanceolate sepals, minutely scabrous. Anthers of anticous 

 stamens oblong, subparallel, with minute empty mucro at the base ; 

 posticous stamens with one anther perfect, one sterile imperfect or 

 rudimentary ; pollen short ellipsoid, hardly reticulated. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style hairy near the base ; stigma small, spathulate. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Punjro Andongo, Wehcifsch, 5084 ! 



21. L. calycina, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 252. Young parts minutely 

 pubescent. Leaves up to If by § in., elliptic, narrowed at both ends, 

 when mature nearly glabrous wiih irregularly scattered cystoliths on 

 the upper surface; petiole 0-^ in. long. Spikes up to 1 h by 1 in.,strobilate, 

 very green, terminal (many on very short lateral branches), microscopi- 



