2(!2 xcviii. Af'ANTHACE.E (burkill AND clarke). [I/ieniia. 



each side, somewhat acute al)ove. Seeds each on the apex of a somewhat 

 elongated funicle ; f unicle a httle enlarged above, but not developed 

 into a true retinaculum. — A shrub with rigid branches, arising regularly 

 in pairs at each node, viscid-pubescent. Leaves narrow, sessile, scabrid. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils, shoitly pedunculate, ebracteolate. 

 Endemic. 



1. H. angolensis, aS'. 3foore in Journ. Bot. 18«(>, 197, ^. 211. A 

 spreading shrub. Branches rigid, somewhat rectangular, pubescent. 

 Leaves sessile, lanceolate, rather obtuse, scabrid on both surfaces, 2^- 

 14 lin. long, J-r) lin. broad, the midrib alone prominent. Calyx 4 lin. 

 long, with conspicuous puberulous veins. Corolla-tube 5-G lin. long. 

 Capsule 4 lin. long. — Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ;> B. 

 288. 



Jto-wer Guinea. Angola, in woods near Quitive de Cima, Wehcilsch, 5001 ! 

 Daniaraland, Een I Amboland, South-east Andonga, Schinz, 18 ! 



There is much doubt about the position of this plant. The mode of branching 

 and the loaves are as in Hi/ffrojphila pilosa, Burkill, but there are characters in the 

 ovary and in its shrubby nature which remove it; the ovary is more like that 

 of Nelsonia, but the calyx, habit, and other characters are very unlike ; the stssmens 

 again are very different from those of the first tribes of the Acanihacea, and suggest 

 a relations'nip to Ble2)haris, which can in no way be considered as close. On the 

 other hand, the habit is that of Radamea in Scrophtdariacea , and the stamens are 

 like those of some plants of its affinity ; and, finally, the oblique capsule is like that of 

 a Fedicidaris or a Melampyrtim and separates the genus so much from Acanihacece 

 that at first we were inclined to place it unhesitatingly in IScrophulariacece. The 

 pollen is characterless, and in this like that of Scrophnlariacece. 



Spencer Moore places Riernia between Nelsonia and Hygrophila ; Lindau places 

 it near yelsonia ; while doubting if it really belongs to AcanihacecB, we consider 

 that at least it ought to be placed in a tribe separate from the other plants of this 

 Order. 



Order XCIX. MYOPORINE^ (by R. A. Rolfe). 



Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular or nearly regular. Calyx inferior, 

 5-partite or 5-lobed. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube short and somewhat 

 campanulate, or elongate and infundibular ; limb subequal, oblique or 

 bilabiate, 5-, or rarely (>-, lobed ; lobes imbricate, the two posticous often 

 exterior, sometimes deeply connate. Stamens 4, didynamous or subequal, 

 rarely as numerous as the corolla-lobes, inserted on the corolla and alter- 

 nating with its lobes, included or exserted ; filaments filiform or 

 thickened at the base ; anthers normally 2-celled ; cells at first 

 parallel, afterwards often diverging from the confluent apex, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Disc hypogynous, small or nearly obsolete. Ovary 

 superior, normally 2-celled, but often spuriously many-celled by the 

 intrusion of septa between the ovules, or truly many-celled. Ovules 2, 

 collateral, or 4-8 in superposed pairs, or solitary when "the ovary is 

 many-celled; anatropous, with a superior micropyle; style simple, 

 terminal, short or somewhat elongated, filiform ; stigma terminal, small, 

 entire or obscurely emarginate, rarely oblique. Fruit drupaceous, indehis- 



