Justicia. | XVCIIU, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). 189 
tailed, lower with long tail, clavate, shortly 2-lobed at the tip; pollen 
ellipsoid, longitudinally 3-banded without tubercles. Ovary shaggy. 
East Tropical Africa. Without locality, Scott-Elliot ! 
Capsule not seen, ‘This may be a Monechma, near M. depauperatum. 
15. J. fittonioides, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1878, 134. Nearly stem- 
less, Leaves 5 by 4 in., round ellipsoid, white-blotched, glabrous, 
minutely pubescent on the nerves beneath, base cordate ; petiole 4~2 in. 
long. Peduncle axillary 2-44 in. long. Spike up to 2 by 3 in., inter- 
rupted ; floral leaves } in. long, ovate, with 1-4 flowers (a condensed 
cyme); bract to flower + in. long, linear-oblong. Sepals 5, } in. long, 
linear, pubescent. Corolla scarcely $ in. long. Filaments glabrous; 
one anther-cell much lower than the other, tailed ; pollen ellipsoid, with 
3 stopples, the longitudinal ribs obscure, not reaching the pole. Ovary 
minutely hairy; style-base thinly hairy. Capsule 3-3 in. long, glabrous or 
nearly so, 4-seeded ; stalk }~} in. long, solid, rather slender ; seeds rough ; 
placente not rising elastically.—Nicoteba fittonioides, Lindau in Engl. 
& Prantl, Planzenfam. iv. 3 B. 329, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 370. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nyika country near Mombasa, Wakefield / 
This is piaced in Betonica by S. Moore, and in Nécoteba by Lindau. The pollen 
is right for Nicoteba, but the “bracts” described by S. Moore are not homologous 
with the bracts of J. Betonica. 
16. J. mossambicensis, Lindau in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 373. 
Annual, 14 ft. high, pubescent. Leaves }? by 4 in., ovate, obtuse. 
Flowers 3-1, clustered in the axils of each floral leaf; floral leaves 
in spikes terminal and on very short axillary branches; proper floral 
leaves round, } in. in diam., imbricated, interspersed with oblong leaves 
$-} in. long ; calyx ily in. long. Corolla $-4 in. long. One anther-cell 
below the other strongly tailed. Ovary 4-ovulate (Lindaw).—Adhatoda 
mossumbicensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 217 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique Isle, Peters! in Berlin 
erbarium, 
; The example is young, and nearly all the spikes have been damaged by some 
lusect. The very small flowers point to sect, Harnieria, which the round bracts do 
Not suit, 
17. J. baravensis, (. B. Clarke. Branches 2 ft. long, crooked, 
divided, nearly glabrous, with many cystoliths. Leaves b by 4 in, 
ovate, minutely scabrous, hairy, finally glabrate ; petiole 0-;/; in. long. 
pikes terminal up to 2 by $ in., more or less interrupted at the base ; 
pubescent, with many gland-tipped hairs ; middle floral leaves (even in 
fruit) loosely imbricate, } by ,!; in., narrow-elliptic, obtuse, with fia 
flowers ; bracteoles 2, } in. long, linear-obovate. Sepals 5, linear, ¢ in. 
long, hairy. Corolla (from fragments) } in. long. Capsule $ in. long, 
Sessile, 2-seeded, ellipsoid, with many detlexed hairs. Seeds compressed, 
black, ammonite-marked—i.e. resembling those of /. flava, but smaller. 
Nile Land. South Somaliland: Barava, Hildebrandt, 1809! 
No specimen at Kew. 
