172 xcviii. ACANTHACE.E (clarke). [Ercmtheiiium. 



Upper Cuinea. Sierra Leone : near Wallia on the River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 

 44511 and without precise locality, Togel, 159! Winwoode Reade I Smeathmann ! 

 Gold Coast : Accra, Don ! Krause, 60 ! Adafo, Krause, 59 ! Lagos : on rocks at 

 Eruva, Rowland ! 



5. E. ludovicianuxn, Bilttn. in Verh. Bot. Jh-andenb. xxxii. 41. 

 Shrub, up to 12 ft. high; branches round; stem quadrangular 

 (Buitner). Leaves 7 by 2| in., elliptic, when mature glabrous, upper 

 surface with scattered subobscure cystoliths, lower surface closely and 

 minutely round-dotted ; petiole up to 1 in. long. Panicle C by J in. ; 

 axillary condensed cymes 8-8-flowered ; rhachis minutely pubescent. 

 Calyx ^ in. long, minutely pubescent. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, nearly 

 glabrous without ; lobes J in. long. — E. Maiuiii, T. Anders. MS. Pseude- 

 ranthemum ludovicianum, Lindau in Engl. Sl Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 3 B. 330 ; Wild, et Dur. 111. Fl. Congo, i. (1899), p. 63, t. 32. 



Upper Guinea^ Ashanti : Assin-Yiin-Coomas-sie, Cummins, 237 1 Caineroons : 

 Yaunde, Sfaudt, 537 ! Zenker, 418 ! Fretiss, 598 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 1437 ! 

 Soutb Central. Lunda : Muene-Putu-Kassongo, Biittner, 460 1 



G. E. Hildebrandtii, C. B. Clarke. A shrub 3-G ft. high, 

 nearly glabrous. Branches terete or quadrangular. Leaves up to 4 J 

 by 1| in., ovate or elliptic; cystoliths many slender on the surfaces; 

 petiole 0-1 in. long (leaf base often long decurrent on a quasi-winged 

 petiole). Panicles linear,' 1-3 in. long, often terminal on lateral 

 branches, running into a large compound inflorescence ; rhachis 

 glabrous, shining brown ; otherwise as E. hyjwoi'ateriforme. — E. hypo- 

 crateriforme, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 398. Pseudercmthemum 

 lUldehrandtii, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 39, and in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 330, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 371. 



KTlle Iiand. Sonialilaud : Sheikh Husein, Donaldson Smith ! British East 

 Africa : Rabai Hills near Mombasa, Hildehrandt, 2308 ! Nyika country near 

 Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



Mozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Hildehrandt, 981 ! German East Africa : 

 Usambara ; Duga, Hoist, 3159 ! Mascheua, Hoist, 8800 ! Tanga, Hoist, 2110 ! 

 Magila, Kirk ! between Magila and the River Sigi, Volkens, 64 ! Usaramo, 

 Stuhlmann^ 8988 ! 



Hildehrandt, 981, has terete branches. The present species is separated from 

 E. hypocraterijorme by the shining-brown glabrous rhachis, and the leaves not 

 reticulately veined beneath. 



7. E. seticaljTX, C. B. Clarke. Branches roundish, glabra te, 

 with the rhachis of inflorescence pubescent upwards. Leaves up to 

 4|- by 2 in., ovate (in some of Kirk's examples 7 by 3J in.), when 

 young often very hairy, when mature rarely quite glabrate ; cystoliths 

 scattered, obscure; petiole 0-1 in. long. Panicles 2-3 by ^ in., dense. 

 Calyx I in. long, nearly glabrous or with white spreading small 

 bristles, also seen on the rhachis. Corolla- tube 1 in. long, pubescent 

 without. 



