Ecbolium.] xcviii. ACANTHACEiE (clarke). 230 



2 in each cell, lower smaller and soon shrivelling up ] style slightly 

 hairy towards the base; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsule \ in. long, 

 obovoid, compressed, 2-seeded, hairy ; stalk solid ; placenta.* not rising 

 elastically from the base ; seeds yellow, shining, very hard, smooth, 

 without hairs or tufts. — Jicsticia Anisacanthiis, Schweinf. in Verb. 

 Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, xviii. 678. Schivahea Anisacanthus, Lindau in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 340, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, vi. (1896) 82. Monechma ciliatum, Hochst. ex Nees in DC. 

 Prod. xi. 411. M. violaceum, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 411 partly. 



Nile Iiand. Nubia : between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfttrth, 130, 287 ! 

 425 ! Somaliland, Riva, 129, Eohecchi, 305 ! Donaldson Smith ! Keller, 206 ! 213 ! 

 2] 5 ! 216! Abyssinia, 3000 ft., Schimper, 62 ! 1005! 1298a ! 



Schweinfarth observes that this plant is an Echoluim, but he inchides Echolium 

 as a section in Juslicia. It is not clear why Lindau has put it in Schu-aheo, as the 

 seeds entirely want the two tufts of hairs on which that genus is poised, and the 

 anther-cells are with.out tails. 



9. E. revolutum, C. B. Clarke. Bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, 

 imbricate, puberulous. Capsule sparsely hairy ; seeds covered all over 

 by very distant glochidiate hairs; otherwise as E. Anisacanthns. — 

 Schtcahea revoluta, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 59, in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 346, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. BarUrice 

 sp., Schweinf. in Hohnel, Zum Rudolph-See u. Stephanie-See, Sonder- 

 abdr. 6. 



IVIozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Usambara ; to the West of Pare 

 Mountains, 600-2200 ft., HiJhnel, 8 ! 



10. E. hamat-um, C. B. Clarke. Shrub; branches minutely tomen- 

 tose-pubescent. Leaves up to H by J in., oblong, pubescent ; petiole 

 0-J in. long. Spikes terminal, short; bracts imbricate, up to | by 

 J in., ovate, much acuminate, hairy ; bracteoles i in. long, linear. 

 Sepals J in. long, gland-hairy. Corolla-tube | in. long, subcylindric ; 

 Hps I in. long, anticous 3-lobed, posticous oblong and subentire. Anther- 

 cells muticous ; pollen ellipsoid, pores 3. Capsule J in. long, 2-seeded ; 

 seeds hairy. — Blechum hamattcm, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossnmb. 

 220. Petalidium (?) hamatum, Lindau in Engl. S: Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 3 B. 299, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367. Schwabea ecbolioides, 

 Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 58, and in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 



3 B. 346, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. 



Wile Ziand. British East Africa: Taita; Ndara Mountain, Hildehrandt, 2436 1 



XVIozamb. I>i8t. German East Africa : Pangani Steppe, 2700 ft., Volkens, 



552 ! and without precise locality, Fischer, 296 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower 



Zambesi ; Sena, Peters ! British Central Africa : North Kalahari Desert, mar 



Chukutusa Salt Pan, Lugard, 223 ! 



11. E. trinervium, C. B. Clarke. Leaves 1^ by J in., rhom- 

 boid-ovate, obtuse. Bracts J by. \ in., broad-elliptic, narrowed at 

 the base, distinctly 3-nerved, tip acuminate ; otherwise as E. hamatum. — 

 Schwabea ecbolioides, var. tomentosa. Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 59. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africn, Fischer, 284! 



