Asj/stasia.] xcviii. ACANTHACEJi: (clarke). 133 



linear-lanceolate or linear, nearly glabrous. Spike 2-2 J in. long,, slender, 

 interrupted ; bracts J in. long ; glabrous. Sepals J in. long, linear, 

 puberulous. Corolla in total length J in. Anther-cells minutely mu- 

 cronate at the base. Style hairy at the base. — Lindau in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 370. 



xrile Iiand. British East Africa : Durama, 700 ft., Gregory ! 



6. A. scandensy Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4449. A straggling shrub. 

 Leaves up to 7 by 3 in., elliptic, narrowed at either end, young with 

 white dots on the upper surface, when mature nearly glabrous ; petiole 

 0-J in. long. Inflorescence terminal, 2-'^ in. long, often compound, 

 viscous-pubescent, glandular; bract hardly | in. long. Sepals \ in. 

 long, linear. Corolla pale mauve to white ; tube J in. long, much 

 inflated in the upper half. Anthers minutely tailed ; pollen long- 

 ellipsoid, of the genus, with obsolete tubercular markings, as in many 

 species of Justicia. Ovary glabrous. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 478 ; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 53; Lindau in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 326. Henfreya scandens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847, 

 t. 31. 



"Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Talla Hills, Scott-Elliot, 4919! near Lumbarayn, 

 5012! George Water, Scott-Elliot, 4164! and without precise locality. Barter! 

 Don ! Afzelius ! Smeathman ! 



7. A. vogeliana, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 479. A straggling 

 undershrub. Leaves up to 7J by 2J in., narrowed at either end, when 

 mature nearly glabrous, with rows of minute cystoliths along the 

 midrib on the upper surface; petiole 0-1 J in. long. Inflorescence 

 terminal, compound, lax, or straggling, 6-18 in. long, ultimate spikes 

 or racemes 1-sided; bract i in. long. Sepals \-\ in. long, linear, 

 densely and minutely glandular pubescent. Corolla pale purple to 

 white; tube 2 in. long, slender, the upper J part funnel-shaped. 

 Anthers mucronate at the base, hardly tailed. Ovary glabrous ; a 

 very few microscopic bristles on the style-base. Capsule 1-1 J in. 

 long. — T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 53 ; Lindau in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 326; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 

 77. A. kalantha^ Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 321. 



Upper Guinea. Ashanti : Assin-Yan-Cooinassie, Cummins, 79 ! Togoland, 

 Baumann, 374 ! Lagos ; Abeokuta, Irving ! near Lagos, Eoivland ! Niger Delta : 

 Angiama, Barter, 2096 ! Cameroons : Efulen, Bates, 449 ! Cameroon Mountains, 

 3000 ft., Mann, 1955 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 211 ! Mann, 47 ! 



8. A. longituba, Lindau in Engl. Jahrh. xxii. 118. Ovary with 

 many brown subsessile glands nearly to the base. Capsule glandular ; 

 otherwise as A. vogeliana. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, 2500 ft., Zenker ^' Staudt, 410 ! 587 ! 

 587a! 587b ! between Victoria and Bota, Preuss, 1363 ! 



Lindau says Ibis is distinct Irom all other African Asgsiasias by the length of 

 the flowers ; but they are not quite so long as thote ot A. cogeliana. The cystoliilis, 

 on the upper surface of the leaf along the midrib, are much fewer. 



