136 XCVIII, ACANTHACEH (CLARKE). [A systasia. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Golis Range, Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Cole! Adda 
Galla, James § Thrupp ! between Jaribule and Harr, Riva, 191! 
Very near the preceding species, but larger and with woody branches. 
15. A. ansellioides, (. B. Clarke. Sparingly minutely pubescent. 
Branches 1 ft. long, weak. Leaves 2 by 1 in., ovate; petiole 4 in. 
long. Spikes axillary, 2 in. long, slender, glabrate, 2-flowered ; flower 
subsessile ; bracts scarcely ;3; in. long. Sepals 5, linear, nearly 4 in. 
long, minutely, thinly scabrous, hairy. Corolla white, in total length 
3-2 in. ; tube somewhat inflated from the base. Stamens 4; anther- 
cells 2, oblong, muticous, at equal height. Capsule ? in. long, stalked, 
4-seeded, retrorsely thin hairy ; seeds 4 in. in diam., flattened, trapezoid, 
tubercular-scabrous, margins thickened, smooth.—A. coromandeliana, 
Balf. f. in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xxxi. 217, partly. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Tana River, Thomas, 30! 
Inflorescence and habit of Justicia, sect. Ansellia. 
34, FILETIA, Miq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1101. 
Anther-cells not parallel at equal height; inflorescence a very 
narrow panicle ; otherwise (so far as known) equal to Asystasta. 
Species 2; the type species in Java, one in West Africa. 
This genus is only known from Miquel’s account, which describes neither the 
zstivation of the corolla, the pollen, nor the fruit. Lindau refers to this genus the 
Kamerun species below (of which the fruit is unknown). 
1. F. africana, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 41. Bush, 2-4 ft. high. 
Branches slender, glabrate and with lines of crisped pubescence. 
Leaves up to 7 by 1}-2 in., from oblong to elliptic, pinnately nerved, 
margin entire wavy, base obtuse, tip acuminate, crisped hairy on the 
midrib above, very minutely hairy on the nerves beneath ; petiole up to 
} in. long. Panicle 3 by } in., minutely hairy, terminal; peduncle 
1 in. long; bracts up to } in. long., oblong; lateral panicle-branches 
3 in. long, 1-4-flowered. Calyx scarcely } in. long, divided nearly 
to the base, pubescent; sepals 5, linear, equal. Corolla-tube }-} 1. 
long, narrow; lobes 4-4 in. long. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 
glabrous ; anthers all 2-celled, muticous; those on the longer filaments 
have cells ellipsoid, one much above the other, the upper ciliate on the 
slit, those on lower filaments have cells orbicular, divergent, a little 
distant on the connective; pollen ellipsoid, 3-banded. Pistil glabrous; 
style shortly bifid; ovules 2 in each cell; disc } the height of the ovary. 
Fruit unknown.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 
335, 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Quaqua, Buchholz ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Como River, Bates, 495! 
