214 XCVIII. ACANTHACEE (CLARKE). [ Monechma. 
ellipsoid, banded, stopples 2, no tubercles. Capsule 4 in. long, woody ; 
seeds 1 by 1, in.—Justicia ciliaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 84; Jacq. Hort. 
Vind. ii. 47, t. 104 (ciliata). J. Biittneri, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 
68, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. 3 B. 349. Pogonospermum 
ciliare and P. hispidum, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, Beil. 6. Schwabea 
ciliaris, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 384, excluding syn. Endl.; A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 154; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 482; Solms-Laub. in 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 113; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vu. 
45; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 180; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. 64, t. 2, fig. 98, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 346, 
and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. S. spicigera, Nees in DC. Prod. x1. 
384; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 45. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 167! 505 partly! Gambia, Brown- 
Lester, 51! Sierra Leone: near Bayabaya on the Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 4588 ! 
Togoland, Bittner, 148! Baumann, 326! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 239! Pfund, 83! Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 14! 
81! 84! British East Africa: Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2463 ! Madi, Speke 
Gf Grant ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland: between Kondowe and 
Karonga, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte, 381! 
Nees says the flowers are axillary and solitary in Pogonospermum ciliare, but spiked 
in his Schwabea spicigera: he has written on one example of Heudelot’s ciliaris, on 
another spicigera, and they look to me one collection. The spikes when young in Pogo- 
nospermum are dense, but they open out much in fruit ; the bracts show a passage 
from leaf to bract, and are throughout the spike so very long and leaf-like in this 
genus that they might be described as floral leaves. Jindau says the pollen 18 
tubercled ; I find it unusually devoid of rows of tubercles, or even of spots. 
2. M. bracteatum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 375, 1843, 75. Stems 
1-3 ft. high, pubescent. Leaves up to 44 by 1-14 in. (usually much 
smaller), when mature glabrate or puberulous, tip obtuse ; petiole 3-1 
in. long. Spikes subsessile (sometimes more than 2 at one node), 2 by 
% in., strobilate; bracts 1-1 in. in diam., circular or slightly elliptic, 
obtuse (sometimes with a minute point), pubescent, ciliate with long 
white several-celled hairs round the margin nearly or quite to its 
summit (but see var. enumerated below). Calyx + in. long, halty- 
Corolla 4-3 in. long. Lower anther-cell with a long tail, obtuse sub- 
clavate at the tip. Capsule } in. long, densely clothed with short white 
(mostly deflexed) hairs ; seeds yellow-brown often with black blotches.— 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 411; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 
112, 244 ; Zarb, Cat. Spéc. Bot. Pfund. 32. JI/. affine, Hochst. 10 Flora, 
1843, 76; Nees in DU. Prod. xi. 411; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss:, "e 
158. MM. debile, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 411; Solms-Laub. in Schwein’ 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 112, 224. Dianthera debilis, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. -" 
Justicia debilis, Vahl, Symb. ii. 15, and Enum. i. 135; T. Anders. jp 
Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 43; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 3935 Oliv. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 129; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanze? 
fam. iv. 3B. 349, fig. 139, q, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 373, and i 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma vi. (1896) 83. /. bracteata, Zarb, Cat. Spéc. Bot. 
Pfund. 32. J. blepharostegia, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile Append. 643. 
