23 i xcviii. ACAXTHACE.E (clarke) [Isoglossa. 



red glands. Leaves 4 by 1 J in., ovate, hairy on both surfaces ; nerves 

 reticulated beneath ; petioles short. Panicle terminal, branched ; 

 flowers clustered, running into continuous spikes towards the tips of 

 the branches ; floral leaves lanceolate, larger in the lower part of the 

 panicle. Calyx -i in. long. Corolla rose ; tube f in. long ; lips ^ in. 

 long, both deeply lobed. Anther-cells at nearly equal height ; pollen of 

 the genus. — Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. :5 B. 344, and 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. 



KTlle Iiand. British East Africa : Ruwenzori, 9300-10,000 ft., StuJdmann^ 

 2397 '. 2424a ! 



l[). I. Ixodes, Lindau in Emjl. Jahrh. xxii. 124. Branches 

 pubescent upwards. Leaves 2 by | in., ovate, margins near the base 

 hairy ; petiole |-^ in. long. Panicle terminal, of closely contracted 

 cymes ; flowers sessile ; floral leaves J-f in. long, ovate, acuminate, 

 sessile ; bracts \ in. long, linear. Sepals J in. long, with long white 

 multicellular hairs at the tip. Corolla glabrous, cannine ; tube | in. 

 long, cylindric ; lips nearly |- in. long. Anther-cells muticous, some- 

 what divaricate, one slightly below the other ; pollen of the genus. 

 Pistil glabrous, of the genus. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Ukami ; Uluguru Mountains, near 

 Lukwangulu, Stuhlmann, 9174 ! 



49. CHLAMYDOCARDIA, Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. 39. 



Sepals 5, small, linear. Corolla slender, 2-lipped ; tube narrow- 

 cylindric ; anticous lip o-lobed, posticous emarginate. Stamens 2 ; 

 anther-cells 2, elliptic, placed obliquely, nearly at equal height, not tailed 

 at the base ; pollen spherical, with 6 equatorial pores and meridional 

 lines of raised points. Stigma subcapitate. Capsule small, stalked, 4- 

 seeded ; placentje not rising elastically from the base of valves. — Herbs. 

 Panicles terminal, linear-cylindric (or nearly reduced to racemes) ; 

 floral leaves (in the two well-ascertained species) spathulate or obovate, 

 prominent. 



Species 2 or 3, endemic. 



This differs from Isoglossa in the pollen and in the inflorescence, to which the 

 peculiar floral leaves give a marked character. 



Leaves pubescent ; petiole 0— | in. long . . . ] . C. Bucitneri. 



Leaves glabrous ; petiole ^-1 in. long . . . 2. C. suhrhomboidea. 



1. C. Buettneri, Lindau in Emjl. Jahrh. xx. ;)0. Stems 12-16 in. 

 long, weak, creeping, rooting at the base, with 2 lines of minute 

 crisped hair. Leaves up to 3^ by \l in., ovate-acute, much tapering at 

 the base, minutely puV>escent on the nerves ; cystoliths on upper 

 surface many, small ; petiole 0-J in. long. Panicles terminal, up to 4 

 by 2 in., nearly glabrate ; flowers in 1-4 clusters on the branches, 

 sessile ; floral leaf (or bract), \-\ in. long, obcordate, sub-3-lobed, 

 apiculate, on a linear petiolule, mostly 1 -flowered, minutely gland-hairy 

 on the margin ; fruiting panicle-branches loose, but lower bracts imbri- 



