294 SÉANCE DU 24 AvniL 1896. 
floralia subsessilia; flores majusculi, ad axillas solitarii, sessiles, 
2-bracteolati, in spicas terminales brevissimas, fere capituliformes 
conferti; bracteolæ foliaceæ, ample, oblongo-lanceolatæ acute, 
dimidium florem :equantes, calycem arcte includentes eoque fere 
sesquilongiores; calycis herbacei, crebre glandulosi, 5-partiti 
segmenta :equalia, angusta, lineari lanceolata acutissima, 3-nervia ; 
corolla rosea, glandulosa, pubescens, tubo recto infundibulari, 
calyce 2-plo longiori, lobis :equalibus tubo dimidio brevioribus, 
ovato-orbiculatis, patentibus, æstivatione imbricatis, antico ex- 
timo, lateralibus margine posticos dextrorsum contortos obtegen- 
tibus; stamina 4, didynama, inclusa, filamentis infra medium 
tubi affixis, discretis, complanatis, glabris; antheræ oblongæ, 
glabræ, loculis parallelis, basi mucronato-calcaratis altero altius 
affixo; ovarium oblongum, glabrum, apice attenuatum; stylus 
filiformis, glaber, apice brevissime bifidus, ramis dentiformibus 
minutis; ovula in quoque loculo 2; capsula ignota. — 3. 
Fol. petiol. 1/2-1 1/2 cent., lamin. 3 1/2-5 cent. long., 1-2 cent. 
lat.; bract. (fol. floral.) 1-2 1/2 cent. long.; bracteol. 1 1/2 cent. 
long., 1/4-1/3 cent. lat.; calyx 1 cent. long.; filament. 3 mill.; 
anther. 2 1/2 mill.; styl. 7-8 mill. long. 
Species inflorescentia prætereaque tubo corollæ a basi sensim 
ampliato Petalidium genus referens ; sed æstivatio vere imbricata 
Justiciæis nec Ruelliis pertinet. 
Hab. in convallibus regionis montanæ inferioris. — Legi in 
wadi Dhabab, prope pagum Haifan (Bil. Hodjerya), mense Maio 
ineunte florentem ; It. ann. 1889-90, Exss. n^ 537 et 556. 
9. JUSTICIA CALYCULATA spec. nov. (Raphidiospora). 
Herba ramosa, diffusa; rami debiles, 4-sulcati, internodiis 
alternatim lineis pilosis oppositis instructi; folia parvula, ovata, 
in petiolum brevem abrupte attenuata, utrinque setulis appressis 
conspersa, ad basin et secus petiolum pilis mollibus, complanatis, 
patulis longe ciliata; cymæ axillares, scorpioideæ, laxæ, graciles, 
folio multo longiores; flores parvi, sessiles, calyculo minuto € 
bracteolis 4, subulatis, calyce 4-plo-brevioribus constante invo- 
lucrati; calyx herbaceus, 5-partitus, minute puberulus, segmentis 
subulatis, acutissimis, 3 posticis longioribus tubum coroll: supe- 
rantibus; corolla pallide flava, bilabiata, tubo e basi sensim am- 
pliato, facie postica piloso, antice floccis barbatis 2 instructo, 
