Eranthemum.] xcviii. acanthaceje (clarke). 171 



2. E. senense, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamh. Hot. iM9. 

 Leaves up to -ij by \\ in., when mature minutely pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath; cystoliths on the under surface small, numerous, sub- 

 conspicuous ; base of leaves long attenuate ; petiole winged or hardly 

 any. Spikes G-12 in. long, very slender; flowers solitary; otherwise 

 nearly as E. decurreyis, Nees. — Paeuderanthemum senense, Kadlk. in 

 Sitz.-ber. Bayr. Akad. xiii. 28G, not of Lindau. 



lIKozainb. Sist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Rios de Sena, 

 Fefers ! Lupata, Kirk ! 



This plant is more pubescent than E. decurrens, with slender leaves and spikes 

 and rather smaller flowers. The numerous stalked glands of the rhachis on the spike 

 and the calyx are not seen in the nearly allied plant issued by Lindau as E. senense, 

 Klotzsch. 



3. E. nigritianum, T. A7iders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 51. A 

 slender shrub, 8-20 in. high. Leaves 4J by IJ in., elliptic, when 

 mature glabrous ; cystoliths on both surfaces rather obscure ; petiole 

 0-J in. long. Spikes 2-5 in. long, slender ; flowers nearly all solitary ; 

 rhachis minutely pubescent. Sepals J in. long, minutely pubescent, 

 corolla mauve or nearly white; tube J in. long, nearly glabrous outside. 

 Capsule I in. long. — S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, 308. E. 'plumha- 

 ginoides, P. Maury in Journ. de Bot. ii. 264-267 with figure. Pseude- 

 ranthemum nigritianum, Radlk. in Sitz.-ber. Bayr. Akad. xiii. 28i'>; 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 330. Justicia tunicata, 

 Afzel. Remed. Guin. iii. 17; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 428. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Kukuna,. by the Scarcies Rivei-, Scott- 

 Elliot, 4692 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Togoland, Baumann, 375 I 

 Lagos: Eppah, Barter, 3300! Cameroons : Victoria, Preuss, 1108! 1298! 1366! 

 Johnston ! Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker Sf Statidt, 581 ! Zenker, 815 ! Batanga, Bates, 

 23 ! Fernando Po, Buchholz ! Mann, 156 ! 



Jao-wer Cuinea. Gaboon : Gaboon River, Mann, 997 ! Buttner, 359 ! Sierra 

 del Crystal, Mann, 1708! Angom, Bates, 564 1 Loango: near Majumbe, Soi/aiix, 

 135 ! 155 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo, Wehoitsch, 5177 ! 5192 ! 



Soutb Central. Lunda : Bashilange ; Mukenge, Pogge, 988 ! 



•4. E. hypocrateriforme. Poem, d- Schultes, Syst. i. 175. Shrub 

 3-4 ft. high. Branches glabrous, with 4 raised lines. Leaves up to 

 3i by 1^ in., ovate or elliptic, when mature glabrous, minutely white- 

 dotted on both surfaces, reticulate-veined beneath ; cystoliths very 

 obscure; petiole 0-J in. long. Panicles linear, 2-7 in. long; axillary 

 cymes dense, several-flowered, lower more or less spreiiding, sometimes 

 up to 1 in. long, compound ; rhachis minutely pubescent. Sepals \ in. 

 long, glabrous or very nearly so. Corolla scarlet; tube I in. long, 

 nearly glabrous without. Capsule \\ in. long. — Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 

 454 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Y\. 484 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc^ vii. 

 52. E. ajfine, Spreng. Syst. i. 80. Justicia hyjyocrateinformis, Yalil, 

 Enum. i. 165; Schumach. ct Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 11. /'s^w-^^f- 

 ranthemum hypocrateriforiiie, Radik. in Sitz.-ber. Bayr. Akad. xiii. '2^Q ; 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 330 partly. 



