1:30 xcviii. ACANTiTACE/E (clarke). [Liudaueci. 



ferior segments rather shorter, linear. Corolla purple-blue ; tube h in. 

 long, mucli inflated in the upper half ; lobes J-§ in. long, connate in two 

 lips ; anticous lip shortly 3-lobed ; posticous shorter, smaller, emarginate. 

 Stamens 4 ; 2 anticous with 2-celled anthers (cells oblong, parallel, at 

 equal height, muticous) ; 2 posticous with 1 -celled anthers ; filaments 

 glabrous. Ovary and style glabrous ; stigma of 2 subequal minute oblong 

 lobes. Capsule § in. long, oblong ellipsoid, 4-seeded ; seeds (unripe) 

 appear as of Barleria. — Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 

 zu ii.-iv. 308. 



irile Xiand. Soinaliland: River Shebele, Donaldson Smith! Keller, 185 

 Burku district, Ghika .' 



33. ASYSTASIA, Blume ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 1094. 



Calyx divided t6 the base ; segments 5, subequal, narrow, often small. 

 Corolla-tube inflated upwards ; limb 5-fid, hardly 2-lipped ; anticous 

 segment wholly outside in the bud. Stamens 4 ; anthers all subsimilar, 

 2 -celled ; cells oblong, nearly parallel or one a little lower, muticous or 

 with 1 or 2 small spurs at the base ; pollen ellipsoid, with 3 stopples, 9 

 longitudinal lines ; in the typical species, long-ellipsoid, square-headed, 

 subterete ; in A. macrophylla (and others) shortly ellipsoid, narrowed at 

 the poles, trigonous. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell, hairy or glabrous ; 

 stigmas 2, subequal, short, oblong or hemispheric. Capsule 4-seeded at 

 the top, on a long solid stalk ; seeds without hairs, compressed, rugose. — 

 Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire. Kacemes, spikes or panicles apparently 

 terminal (except in A. ansellioides), one-sided, lax, with minute bracts 

 and bracteoles, or distichous with larger bracts, or densely strobiliform 

 with large bracts and bracteoles. 



Species 34, in the warmer parts of the Old World. 



*Inflorescence, at least apparently, terminal. 



Bracts minute ; racemes often 3- to many-flowered. 

 Ovary hairy, at least in the upper half. 

 Leaves ovate to oblong. 

 Sepals i^— i in. long. 



Corolla-tube |— 1 in. long. 



Pubescent or hairy . , . . 1. A. coromande liana. 



Glabrous except the corolla . . . 4:. A. congensis. 



Corolla-tube \ in, long. . . . . 2. A. parvula. 



Sepals \ in. long Z. A. Bnettneri. 



Leaves linear ; corolla-tube \ in. lontr . . b. A. linearis. 



Ovary glabrous (very glandular in A. longituba). 

 Corolla-tube 1-1 f in. long ; leaves large. 

 Anthers scarcely tailed. 



Inflorescence dense . . . . . Q. A. scandens. 



Inflorescence lax. 



Ovary glabrous ; corolla-tube 2 in. . . 7. A. vogiliana. 



Ovary glandular ; corolla-tube If in, . 8. A. longituba. 



Anther-cells each with 2 tails ; leaves 8-14 in. 



long . . . , , . . 'd. A. macrophylla. 



Corolla-tube ^ in. long . , , . . 10. ^. africana. 



