Perist7'ophe.] xcviii. acanthace,*: (clarke). 2 4:^ 



Leaves up to 4 by IJ in., elliptic-lanceolate; petiole J in. long; leaves 

 usually smaller and very few in the inflorescence. Panicles often 1 2- IS 

 in. long, very lax, much divided, spikelets with but one perfect flower ; 

 bracts I in. long. Calyx scarcely | in. long, minutely puVjerulous. 

 Corolla J in. long, pale purple. Capsule .\ in. long, hairy at the top ; 

 seeds minutely papillose. — DC. Prod. xi. 41)6; Benth. in Hook. Nipt'r 

 Fl. 4S4 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. KK); T. Anders, in Journ. Linn 

 Soc. vii. 47 ; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 11:^), 244; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 504 ; Lindau in Engl. <k 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfara. iv. 3 B. :]81, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. ;)71, and in 

 Ann.Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. (1S9G) 80. P. kotschyana, Nees in DC. Prod. 

 xi. 497 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 160 ; Zarb, Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 

 32. DiantJiera hicahjcidala^ Retz. in Acta Holm. 1775, 297, t. 9. D. mala- 

 barica, Linn. f. Suppl. H5. Justicia hicalyculata, Vahl, Symb. ii. LI 

 J. ligulata, Lam. 111. t. 12, tig. 2 ; Cav. Ic. i. 52, t. 71. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands: St. lago, Welwitsch, 51761 Senegal, 

 Leiievre ! Perroitei ! Roger! Gambia, Boteler ! Cape Verd, Smith! Niger 

 Territory : Borgu, Barter, 767 ! Bornu ; Kuka, Vogel, 34 ! 



Wile Xiand. Nubia : coast region, Bent ! Schweinfi(rt?i, 348 ! Khartoum, Schtceui- 

 furtk, 772 1 795! Kordofan, FfuncI, 405! 406! 438! Kotschy, 50! 161! Eritrea: 

 Acrur, 6000 ft., Schioeinfurth Sf Sir a, 726! Bogos; Tsad Amba, Steudner, 1517! 

 Sarat, Steudner, 1516 ! Keren, Steudner, 1514 ! Abyssinia : Jelajeranne, Schimper, 

 694 ! Haramat district near Geraz, Schimper, 1095 ! Jaja, Schimper, 289 ! Togodele, 

 Ehrenherq ! and witliout precise locality. Salt ! Schimper, 666 ! 1511 ' Somaliland, 

 Rohecchi, 242! 251! 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland, 3300 ii., Marloth, 

 1312 ! Amboland ; Oshando, Schinz ! 



Mozamb. 3>ist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 452 ! British 

 Central Africa: Stevenson Road, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8247! Eastern 

 Bechuanaland : Tati, Hohih ! 



2. P. Hensii, C. B. Clarke. Panicle large with strongly hexagonal 

 branches, much denser, with larger spikelets ; otherwise as P. bicaly- 

 culcita. — Dicliptera Ilensii, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 120. 



South Central. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, 1000 ft., Hens, 53 ! 



This is a Peristrophe (closely allied to P. bicali/culata, which has invariably 

 a more straggling panicle) identical with one from Natal and Kaffraria. 



:l P. luteoviridis, C. B. Clarke. Stout herb, glabrous except 

 the inflorescence, yellow-green. Leaves up to ^^^J by 1 in., narrowed at 

 both ends; petiole \ in. long. Clusters of flowers approximated in 

 rather dense spikes ?> by 1 in. ; floral leaves up to ^ by \ in., intermixed. 

 Spikelets 1-flowered; bract ]^-h in. long, lanceolate; bracteoles \ in. 

 long, linear. Calyx \-\ in. long. Corolla ;|-1 in. long, rose, purple- 

 spotted (/S'c/iZ'-em/wr^/i).' Anther-cells at nearly ecjual height, rounded 

 at the base ; pollen ellipsoid with :> stopples, on the longitudinal smooth 

 bands are single rows of minute spots, one row on each side of eacli 

 stopple. Capsule J in. long, stout, solid-stalked; seeds 4, discoid, 

 smooth. — Xicoteha lanceolata, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. '^X, and m 

 Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. A B. 329. 



