Lepidagathis.] xcviii. acanthaoe.*: (clarke). I2l> 



L. layicroidea. — Teliostachya hyssopifolia, Bentli. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 481. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don ! 



I here describe the type example of G. Don only. Among Scott- Elliot's exrellent 

 examples (referred above to L. laguroidea), several have been heretofore iniirked 

 L, hyssopifolia ; while Scott-Elliot, 474i, has been supposed a new internieiiiate 

 species. I doubt if L. hyssopifolia should be considered other than a slender f(jrin of 

 L. lagwroidea, smaller in all its parts. The two species bear a strong snperticial 

 resemblance to Justicia (Rostellularia) diffusa, Willd. and its numerous subspecies 

 or varieties. 



25. L. scabra, C. B. Clarke. Branches with approximate nodes 

 and spreading white hairs. Leaves up to 2| by | in., obHquely narrow- 

 elliptic, narrowed at both ends, feather-veined, when mature pubescent 

 beneath, glabrate above with irregularly scattered cystoliths ; petiole 

 0— i in. long. Spikes terminal, or on very short axillary branches, J in. 

 long, ovoid, lax, with some simple white hairs. Sepals 5, nearly J in. 

 long, subequal, narrowly lanceolate, acute, moderately white-hairy. 

 Corolla J in. long, as of Lepidagathis. Stamens : 2 anticous with 2-celled 

 anthers ; anthers oblong, subparallel with empty microscopic tails at the 

 base ; 2 posticous stamens with 1 -celled anthers, the other cell indicated 

 quite rudimentary ; pollen short-ellipsoid, with 3 longitudinal depres- 

 sions, obscurely reticulated. Ovary glabrous, disc cup-shaped, rather 

 long ; style with few long white hairs in the lower part ; stigma short 

 spathulate. — Neuracanthus scaber, Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 360 

 partly. 



Koixrer Guinea. Angola ; Wehcitsch, 5104 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Lake Cliala, VolkenSy 

 320! 



This plant is certainly not Nenr acanthus scaber, S. Moore, r.lie calyx being in 5 

 separate pieces and the corolla 2-lipped (quite unlike the qnasi-convolvulus corolla of 

 Neuracanthus). The stamens are as those of Neuracanthus, but they are equally like 

 those of L. pallescens. 



32. LINDAUEA, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 411, t. 302. 



Calyx -segments 4, reticulate-nerved, somewhat papery; posticous 

 segment elliptic, subacute ; anticous subsimilar, divided about I way down 

 into 2 lanceolate teeth ; otherwise 2ls Lepidagathis, sect. Xeuracanthopsis. 

 — Flowers scattered, subsolitary. 



Species 1, endemic. 



This has the calyx exactly as in many Barlerias, but the corolla stamens and pistil 

 of Lepidagathis. The pollen is nowise different from that of Lepidagathis miirtifolia 

 or L. mollis. 



1. L. speciosa, Rendle in Journ. Bot. ISiH), 412, t. 3G2. Soft hairy 

 with simple and gland-bearing hairs. Branches | in. in diam. Leaves 

 I by \ in., narrowly elliptic-oblong ; petiole O-^V in. long. Flowers 

 scattered, subsessile ; bract \ in. long, linear. Calyx \ in. lonff ; 2 in- 



