Barle7'ia.] xcviii. acantuace^ (clakke). 153 



8-flowered) ; bracts (sterile and fertile) J-§ in. long, linear or lanceolate, 

 green, spine-toothed (in Bitchanan, 1028, longer, stouter). Posticous 

 and anticous calyx-segments subequal, | by ^ in., ovate, spine-toothed, 

 reticiilately veined (but sometimes, B. squarrosa^ Klotzsch, scarcely 

 \ in. wide, oblong). Corolla pale purple-blue ; tube § ir.. long, cylindric 

 to the top; lobes |-J in. long. Capsule h in. long, 4-seeded. — Lindau 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 361). B. squarrosa, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 

 Mossamb. 207; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 869. 



IVIozamb. I>lst. Portuguese East Africa: Kerimbii Islands, Peters! Lower 

 Zambesi ; below Shigogo, Kirjc I between Tete and Lupata, Kirk ! Zambesi, Kirk ! 

 Tete, Peters ! Lower valley of tbe River Shire, Meller ! British Central Africa : 

 Nyasaland ; by the River Shire, Kirk ! Meller ! between Mpata and the Tanganyika 

 Piatean, 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte,'2^)\ 

 Lake Nyasa ; Lukoma (Likoma Islands?), Bellingham ! Nyasaland, Buchanan, 173! 

 1028! 1313! 



26. B. Clivorum, C. B. Clarke. Innovations, and young leaves 

 beneath, stellate-tomentose. Leaves up to 4 J by IJ^ in., acuminate at 

 either end, when mature glabrous beneath with conspicuous cystoliths ; 

 petiole up to l\ in. long; otherwise as B. spimdosa. 



XVIozamb. Sist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Mpata and the Tanganyika Plateau, 

 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! 



27. B. consanguinea, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 208. 

 Branches thickly clothed with spreading white soft hairs -j\^ in. long, 

 without any gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 2-1 J in. long; otherwise as 



B. sjnnulosa. — Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 36 1). 



XVIozamb. Bist. Portuguese East Africa : Beirn, Braya, 81 ! Lower Zambesi ; 

 Rios de Sena, Peters! Shupanga, Scott! 



28. B. capitata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 210. Branch 

 canescent with short incurved white hair. Leaves 1 by \-\ in., sub- 

 obtuse, narrowed at the base, subsessile, simply hairy. Inflorescence a 

 unilateral, very dense, many-flowered raceme 1-1 i in. in diam. ; sterile 

 bracts \-\ in. long, reduced to deeply pinnatifid stifi' spines; fertile 

 bracts 1 in. long, lanceolate, ciliate subspine-toothed. Posticous sepal 

 1^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, ciliate spine-toothed. Style '2h in. long. 

 Capsule f in. long, 4-seeded, glabrous. — Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 



C. 360. 



XTlle Iiand. Eritrea : Schweinfurih, 1071 ! 



XMCozamb. I>ist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Rios de Sena, 

 Peters ! British Central Africa : Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, Iloluh ! 

 Allied to B. lichtensteiniana of South Africa. 



29. B. Steudneri, C. B. Clarke. Small branched shrub, with 

 simple hairs all over. Leaves up to 1 b> J in., obovate-elliptic, tip 

 mucronate, base narrowed into a petiole yV i"- l^"?- Spikes dense, U 



