196 XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). [ Justicia. 
hairs on both surfaces or glabrous except the midrib beneath ; petiole 
0-} in. long. Flowers 3-1 in each axil, sessile, floral leaves {—-} in. 
long, ovate or elliptic, some narrower oblong often added. Sepals 4, 
subequal, 4-} in. long, broadly lanceolate or linear-obovate, scarcely 
acute, glabrous or very minutely hispid. Corolla exceeding } in. in 
length, purple; tube very little dilated at the top; anticous lobe 
distinctly longer than the posticous 2-fid lobe. Filaments glabrous ; 
one anther-cell below the other, tailed ; pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples, 
longitudinally banded, with several rows of tubercles on the band. 
Ovary glabrous; style-base hairy. Capsule } in. long, glabrous, 
4-seeded, with a short thick solid stalk ; seeds reticulate rugose.—/. 
neglecta, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 40 (Abyssinian plant only); 
Zarb, Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund. 32; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 393 
(Abyssinian plant only). J. Rostellaria, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost- Afr. C. 373, in small 
part, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi., 1896, 82. Tyloglossa Schimper, 
Hochst. in Flora, 1843, 73. Adhatoda Rostellaria, Nees in DC. Prod. 
xi, 397; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 103, 242 ; Zarb, 
Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund, 32. Rostellaria Schimperi, Hochst. in Flora, 
1843, 73 in obs. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 39! 432! Eritrea: Marakhat Valley, Saganeitl, 
7000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1708! Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 75! 76! Abyssinia: 
near Adowa, Schimper, 106! 1101! Steudner, 1522! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 294. 
and without precise locality, Schimper, 964! Plowden! British East Africa: Bongo; 
Gurfala, Schweinfurth, 2241! 
This species should perhaps be united with J. insularis, from which it hardly 
differs except by its green (not dark) colour, T. Anderson united it with J. Galeopsis, 
which has a different calyx. The sheet in Kew Herbarium, with Hochstetter s 
printed ticket, “‘ Tyloglossa rostrata, Schimper, 1657 and 1659,” is marked Adhatoda 
Rostellaria, 8 humilis, Nees, and contains Justicia calearata and Asystasia Schimper, 
mixed. As to the specific name to be selected, J. calcarata, Hochst., represents the 
plant here described, while J. neglecta, T. Anders. (still more J. Rostellaria, Lindau) 
represents an agglomeration of plants here separated. 
32. J. Galeopsis, 7. Anders. MS. Petioles shorter than 
J. insularis, the leavesbeing mostly oblong, subsessile. Sepals 4 in. long 
and upwards, linear, very subulate upwards; otherwise as J. insularis. 
—dJ. neglecta, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 40, partly. Adhatoda 
Kotschyt, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 483. 
Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal, Zécard, 145! Gambia, Skues! Sierra Leone: 
Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 3974! Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4149! and without 
precise locality, Afzelius! Forster! Don! Winwood Reade! Dahomey, Burton 
Lagos: Abbeokuta, Irving, 65! on the road to Akokulu, Millen, 61! and ree 
precise locality, Rowland! Millen, 169! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1038 - 
Cameroons, 700 ft., Passarge, 19a! 214! 27a! 88a! 71a! 
Nile Land. Jur, Schweinfurth, 1744! 
This species differs from J, insularis, T. Anders., in the long subulate tips to the 
sepals. Millen, 169, has very thick stems, 4 in, in diam., and glabrous succulent loaves 
and may be specifically separable. Millen, 61, excellently dried, has full purple-r 7 
flowers, while there is on it the collection note of Millen (doubtless correct), “ yellow. 
