Asi/stasia.] xcviii. acanthace.e (clarke). 131 



Bracts shorter than the calyx, ovate, hardly acute. 



Sepals with short hairs; ovary glabrous . , 11. A. Welwitschii. 



Sepals white-shaggy ; ovary hairy at the top . . 12. A. Charmian. 



Bracts exceeding the calyx ; spikes almost strobilate. 



Annual ; leaves mostly oblong .... 13. A. Schimperi. 

 Woody shrub ; leaves elliptic to round-ovate . . 14. A. Colece. 



**Raceme8 axillary, loosely 2-1-flowered ; bracts very 



small . . . . . . . . lb. A. ansellioides. 



1. A. coromandeliana, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 89. 

 Perennial, 1-4 ft. high^ with simple hairs. Leaves 3 by 1 in. (some- 

 times 5 by Ij in.), ovate, suddenly narrowed at the base ; petiole^- J in. 

 long, or (i.e., base of leaf decurrent as a wing). Racemes 2-G in. long, 

 one-sided, frequently several forming a terminal panicle ; lower flowers 

 remote ; lower pedicels often ^^ in. long ; bracts minute. Sepals J in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, pubescent or puberulous. Corolla lurid-purple to yellow 

 or white ; tube J in. long, inflated for | its length. Filaments nearly 

 glabrous ; anthers muticous. Style-base and ovary hairy. Capsule 1 in. 

 long, pubescent ; seeds ^ in. in diam. or rather more. — Nees in DC. Prod, 

 xi. 165 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 493 ; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 

 104; S. Moore in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv, 31. A. quater^ia, 

 Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 166, 724; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478. 

 A. chelonoides, var. 8 arabica, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 164. A. calycina^ 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478. A. gangetica, T. Anders, in Thwaites, 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 235, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 52 ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1880, 308 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 392; Lindau in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. 63, t. 1, fig. 49, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 3 B. 326, fig. 131, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370, and in Xnn. Istit. 

 Bot. Roma vi. [1896] 79. A. podosta/ihys, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 

 Mossamb. Bot. 199. A. subhcistata, Klotzsch, I.e. 200. A. Jioribunda, 

 Klotzsch, I.e. 200. A. acuminata, Klotzsch, I.e. 201. A. pubescens, 

 Klotzsch, I.e. 202. A. scabrida, Klotzsch, I.e. 202. A. niultijiora, 

 Klotzsch, I.e. 203. A. querimbensis, Klotzsch, I.e. 204, Justicia gan- 

 getica, Linn. Amcen. Acad. iv. 299. Ricellia secunda, Vahl, Symb. iii. 

 84. E. quaterna, Schumach, Beskr. Guin. PI. 284. Tyloglossa lo?igipes, 

 Hochst. ex Solms-Laub. I.e. 



upper Guinea. Gambia, Skues ! Ingram ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius I Don ! 

 Scott-Elliot, 3895 ! 4990 ! Liberia, Carder ! Cape Palmas, Voqel, 56 ! Gold Coast : 

 Accra, Buchholz ! Cape Coast Castle, Fogel, 9! Togoland, Klinq, 4! Lagos: Eniwa, 

 Rowland ! Millen, 19 ! Yoruba, Millson, 71 ! Niger Territory : Nupe ; Jeba, Barter ! 

 Niger Delta ; Grand Bassa, Vogel, 87 ! River Nun, Mann, 501 ! Canieroons : Rio del 

 Key, Johnston ! Victoria, Preuss, 1115 ! Batanga, Bates, 8 ! 9 ! Efulen, Bates, 359 ! 

 Yaunde, Zenker ^ Standi, 489 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 265 ! 



Wile land. Upper Senaar : Fazokl, Kotschg, 423 ! Eritrea : Afount Bizen, 

 4500 ft., Schweinfurih ^ Riva, 2000 ! Bngos, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 162! Abyssinia, 

 Schimper, 199! Parkyns ! Somaliland : River Daua, Riva, 1452 1 and without 

 precise locality, Miss Edith Cole ! British East Africa : Mittu ; Mvolo, SchioeinjHrlh, 

 2813 ; and at the River Moroko, Schweinfurth, 3980 ! Ribe, noar Mombasa, Wake- 

 field ! Giryama Mountains, Gregory I Wau, Thomas, 159! 188! 



