212 XCVIII. ACANTHACEZ (CLARKE). | Justicia. 
(1-3-flowered ex Schinz), nearly $ by } in., roundish, short-acuminate, 
with a prominent scarious margin; bracteoles } in. long, lanceolate. 
Sepals 5, } in. long, linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla 3 in. 
long. One anther-cell below the other, strongly tailed ; pollen ellipsoid, 
with 2 stopples ; a single row of minute (but pointed) tubercles on each 
side of each stopple.—Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 
349. 
Lower Guinea, German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand ; between 
Tiras and Rehoboth, Schinz ! 
There is no fruit; possibly a Ruxgia. 
80. J. somalensis (/ranch. Sert. Somal., 53), Small shrub; 
branches slender, crispedly pubescent. Leaves obovate - oblong 
or obovate, obtuse, sparingly adpressedly puberulous; petiole short. 
Racemes lax; flowers solitary, between 2 ovate or orbicular almost 
membranous subsessile ciliate bracts; bracteoles subulate. Calyx 
5-partite nearly to the base; segments linear. Corolla 4-4 in. long, 
concealed by the 2 flatly adpressed bracts as in Dicliptera, purple, 
pubescent without; tube not longer than the calyx; limb distinctly 
2-lipped ; upper lip narrow, 2-toothed, lower spreading. Stamens 2 ; 
lower anther-cell long-tailed. Capsule clavate, pubescent ; cells 2-ovuled ; 
seeds orbicular, flat. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Mana, Révoil. 
44, MONECHMA, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 374. 
Sepals 5, small, narrow, posticous one sometimes much smaller. 
Corolla small, 2-lipped ; posticous lip subentire. Stamens 2 ; one anther- 
cell below the other, long-tailed, tail often clavate, 2-fid at tip; pollen 
ellipsoid, longitudinally banded, with or without rows of tubercles. 
Ovary slightly hairy near the top; ovules 1-2 in each cell; style hairy 
at the base, subequally and shortly 2-lobed at the top. Capsule small, 
ellipsoid, 2-seeded, compressed, hairy (except in I. lolioides), on a short 
solid stalk or subsessile; placentz not rising elastically from the base of 
the valves; seeds discoid, quite smooth without tubercles or corruga- 
tions, usually glabrous, rarely with minute hairs.—Leaves entire. 
Spikes strobilate or lax, or flowers axillary and solitary ; bracts ovate 
to linear-oblong; bracteoles minute or 0). 
Species 21, African; one extending through Arabia to Bombay. ; 
The present genus is not equivalent to Justicia, Sect. iv. Monechma, Lindau (in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 349), which includes several species which do 
not satisfy Hochstetter’s characters for Monechma. The genus, as here understood, 
differs from Justicia by the capsule having two smooth seeds ; it is Schwabea of Nees 
and Bentham, not of Endlicher (which had 4 stamens and did not belong to the tribe 
Eu-Justiciee). 
*ScouwaBea.—Seeds with a tuft of rigid many-celled thick 
hairs at the hilum, and a similar tuft at the opposite 
margin. 
Inflorescence hispid with long white hairs . . . 1. UM. hispidum. 
