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cabrid leaves, the long and laxly flowered spikes, the narrow 
bites ts, the broader calyx with differently shaped lobes and the 
broader corolla-tube glabrous outside. 
ACANTHACE. 
Synnema (§ Hu-Synnema) Acinos, sp. nov. Caulibus e 
rhizomate corticato ascendentibus visitas gracilibus basi foliosis 
glanduloso-pilosis pubescentibus deinde puberulis, foliis onl 
sessilibus brevissimeve petiolatis lanceolatis obtusis vel obtu 
acutis glanduloso-piloso-pubescentibus, floribus in axillis sige 
rioribus 2—3-nis brevissime pedunculatis, bracteis calyce min- 
oribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis hispide ciliatis, calycis lobis 
inter se manifeste inzequalibus lobo postico ome lato-spathulato 
longiorum filamentis inferne dilatatis, ovario puberulo, pees sub- 
incluso inferne piloso, stigmatis lobo postico subobsoleto 
Hab ne near Bu wate ee ; 
membranacea, in sicco Bractee + 0-4 cm oe 
Flores nunc cyanei nunc albi. Calyeis lobus posticus 0-8-1-:0 em 
long., juxta medium 0:3 em. lat., deorsum ad 0-075 cm. subito 
coartatus ; lobi reliqui 0-7-0°75 em. rice -, Summum 0°5 em. lat. 
Paras: tubus 0:55 em. long., basi 0°125 cm., faucibus fere 0-3 cm. 
diam. ; labium anticum 0-65 cm. long., superne 0-5 em. lat., hujus 
loi ShIsnporottin dati, Sbbastenisi 0°25 cm. long. ; labium posti- 
‘55 cm. long., hujus lobi ovati, 0°075 cm. long. Staminum 
aaissorath filamenta 0°3 cm. long., posticorum vix 0-2 em. Ova- 
rium 0:15 cm., stylus 0°6 cm. long. 
S. brevitubum Burkill is the only African species of § Hu- 
Synnema ; this differs from the plant under notice entirely in leaf 
and in corolla. 
Disperma quadrisepalum C. B. Clarke VAR. GRANDIFOLIUM var. 
nov. Folia solemniter 7-0-12-0 x 2-0-3-5 em. 
Hab. Mazoe, in sheltered valley near water ; That €. 513. 
Mr. Eyles’s note tells us that this is a plant fro m 4-1 met. 
high. It is much larger in leaf aa the type and so at first sight 
appears not to be conspecific wi 
Barleria (§ Ev-Baruerta) << rownii, sp. nov.  Fruticosa, 
plus quam biorgyalis, espinosa novellis~piloso-pubescentib 
: — puberulis tandem glabris nodos aliquantulum 
A obtusis spe breviter cuspidatis basi parum o' bia ae obtusis 
rarius leviter subrotundatis papyraceis glabratis, floribus 
pedicellatis in cymis peeveior ex evils ape ote 
matis oriundis ita paniculam brevem et anguste thyrsoideam re- 
