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Monechma. | XCVIIJ. ACANTHACE (CLARKE), 21% 
J. Gregorii, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1894, 138; Lindau in Engl. PA. 
Ost-Afr, C. 373. J. albiflora, Ehrenberg MS., not of Blume. Gendarussa 
debilis, Nees in Linnea xvi. 302. 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 261! 759! Pfund, 167! Darfur, Pfund, 424! 
Ethiopia, Kotschy, 49! Galabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 124! Eritrea: Keren ! 
Steudner, 1520! Bogos, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 441! Abyssinia: Kilet, Ehrenberg ! 
Wadi Togodele, Ehrenberg ! Gageros, 3500 ft., Schimper, 179! Gapdia, Schimper, 
759 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 419! 749 ! 756! Somaliland : Adda Galla, 
James § Thrupp! Ogaden, Riva, 339! Berbera, Robecchi, 243, and without precise 
locality, Miss Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort-Phillips! British East Africa: near Lake 
Baringo, Gregory ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe, Speke & Grant, 433! 
Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 2175! Usambara, Holst, 10! Ukami; Mrogoro, 1600 
ft., Stuhlmann, 8200! Unyamwezi; Iramba District, Stuhlmann, 4217! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; ‘langanyika Plateau at Fort Hill, 3000-4000 ft., Whyte ! 
between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 94! 
Var. 8 hirsutior, C, B, Clarke. Stem very hairy. Mature leaves hairy beneath ; 
bracts densely white, ciliate on the margin.— Justicia debilis, Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. ii. 845. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Taita; Maungu Mountain, Johnston ! and 
Ndara Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2397. Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6749 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 8991 ! 
All the specimens of this have dried a very dark green instead of the grey yellow- 
green of typical UM. bracteatum. 
Var. y angustifolia, C. B. Clarke. Leaves narrower, in an extreme form 5 by 
2 in.— WU. angustifolium, Nees in DC. Prod. xi, 412. Justicia blepharostegia, Drége, 
Zwei Pf. Docum. 160, 195; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn, Soe. vii. 43. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, near Sena, Kirk / 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire River, Kirk / 
Var. 5 non-strobilifera, C. B. Clarke. Flowers 3-1 clustered in distant leaf- 
axils ; upper clusters approximate. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 442! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Kondowe to Karonga, 
2000-6000 tt., Whyte ! 
Var, ¢ stricta, C. B. Clarke. Bracts elliptic-oblong ; spikes narrower, 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Keren, Stewdner, 1499! Abyssinia, Schimper, 207! 
511! 876! Steudner, 1521! . 
Var. ¢ eciliata, C. B. Clarke. Bracts without cilia; otherwise as typical 
M. bracteatum, Hochst. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: near Ginda, 3300 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 2195 ! . 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika Plateau, 6000- 
7000 ft., Whyte! 135! 1183! 
Also in Arabia, 
3. M. (?) scabrinerve, ('. B. Clurke. Leaves 2 by } in., neat 
late beneath by prominent nerves (both primary and secon ~ ) 
minutely scabrous. Bracts 4 by 4 in., elliptic, acute, scabrous nerves 
and with a few long white simple hairs; otherwise as typical AW. brac- 
teatum., 
