Barki'ia.] xcviii. acanthace.e (clauke). 10;^ 



tip minutely 2-toothed ; 2 inner sepals | in. long, linear. Corolla-tube 

 J in. long, linear-cylindric, a little narrowed at the top; lobes ^ in. 

 long, obovate. Anthers rather shorter than in the neighbouring 

 species. Ovary glabrous, or very nearly so ; ovules 2 in each cell, the 

 lower much smaller, style glabrous with a dense cluster of short-stalked 

 glands at the base. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. o91 ; Lindau in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. 3 B. 314, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma vi. [lH[)i\] 71 ; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1S97, 376. 



NTlle X.and. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, 4800-6500 ft., Eildebrandt, 866 ! 

 Waggar Mountains, 5000 ft., Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Ualema, Riva, 1629 ! British Kast 

 Africa: Coast of South Somaliland at Tula River, Kirk ! 



This is very near the small-leaved form of B. salicifolia, but has a much smaller 

 calyx. 



58. B. fulvostellata, C. B. Clarke. Whole shrub with scattered 

 persistent tawny stellate hairs. Leaves up to 2J in. long and broad, 

 round, apiculate ; petiole \-\ in. long. Cymes many, few-flowered, 

 short, unilateral, axillary and terminal ; barren bracts J- J in. long, 

 linear, entire, not spinous; fertile bract § by \ in., elliptic, acute, entire. 

 Posticous sepal | in. long and broad, entire, obtuse, becoming papery ; 

 anticous calyx-segment § in. long, obovate, tip of 2 short round lobes ; 

 2 lateral sepals J in. long, ovate, falcate, subacute. Corolla H in. in 

 total length, a d*eep purple-blue when dried. Pistil glabrous with a 

 large entire cup-shaped disc. 



XMEozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau, 

 2000-3000 ft., Whyte ! Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! 181 ! 



59. B. opaca, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 230. Straggling half- 

 climbing shrub. Leaves 2\ by IJ in., narrowed at both ends, when 

 mature with scattered simple hairs on both faces ; petiole U-J in. long. 

 Cymes very short, 3-1-flowered, approximated in the upper axils and 

 running into a dense spike ; floral leaves |-1 in. long, subsessile, 

 similar to the lower leaves but smaller, hardly imbricated to form a 

 strobilate spike ; bract h in. long, linear or scarcely spathulate. Posti- 

 cous sepal nearly J in. long, entire, quadrate-oblong, shortly apiculate, 

 hairy ; anticous segment rather shorter, 2-nerved, tip shortly 2-toothed ; 

 2 inner sepals ^-4 in. long, linear. Corolla-tube |-1 in. long, narrow 

 funnel-shaped upwards; lobes J in. long. Ovaiy glabrous; ovules 

 2 in each cell ; style glabrous. Capsule ^ in. long, compressed, ellipsoid, 

 narrowed at each end, 2-seeded. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 480 ; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 31 ; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 

 1898, 77. B. Afzelii, Lindau MS. in Hb. Berol. JuMicia opaca, Vahl, 

 Enum. i. 133; Schumach. Beskr. Guin. PI. 10. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, JBrass ! Gold Coast : Accra, Dov ! Aslianti : 

 Akro\'n\, Cummins, ^0\ Volta Basin ; Alafango, A>a?/^6' .' Lagos : Xheokwi-A, Bowland! 

 and without precise locality, J/?7;e«, 46! 179! Niger Delta : Brass, X'o;? .' Cameroons : 

 Buea, 6000 ft., Preuss, 714! 



S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 268, asks whether this may not be a variety of 

 B. veniricosa, which differs in its yellow-green colour, tawny hairs on the innovations, 

 and less dense spikes. 



