Echolium. } XCVIII, ACANTHACEX (CLARKE). 239 
2 in each cell, lower smaller and soon shrivelling up; style slightly 
hairy towards the base; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsule } in. long, 
obovoid, compressed, 2-seeded, hairy; stalk solid; placente not rising 
elastically from the base; seeds yellow, shining, very hard, smooth, 
without hairs or tufts.—Justicia Anisacanthus, Schweinf. in Verh. 
Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, xviii. 678. Schwabea Anisacanthus, Lindau in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. 3 B. 346, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, vi. (1896) 82. Monechma ciliatum, Hochst. ex Nees in DC. 
Prod. xi. 411. IM. violaceum, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 411 partly. 
Nile Land. Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 130, 287! 
425 ! Somaliland, Riva, 129, Robecchi, 305! Donaldson Smith! Keller, 206! 213! 
215 ! 216! Abyssinia, 3000 ft., Schimper, 62! 1005! 12984! 
Schweinfurth observes that this plant is an Eebolium, but he includes Echolium 
as a section in Justicia. It is not clear why Lindau has put it in Schwabea, as the 
seeds entirely want the two tufts of hairs on which that genus is poised, and the 
anther-cells are without tails. 
9. E. revolutum, C. 2B. Clarke. Bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, 
imbricate, puberulous. Capsule sparsely hairy ; seeds covered al! over 
by very distant glochidiate hairs; otherwise as EL. Anisacanthus.— 
Schwabea revoluta, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 59, in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 346, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. Barlerie 
sp., Schweinf. in Hohnel, Zum Rudolph-See u. Stephanie-See, Sonder- 
abdr. 6. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; to the West of Pare 
Mountains, 600-2200 ft., Héhnel, 8! 
10. E. hamatum, C. 2. Clarke. Shrub; branches minutely tomen- 
tose-pubescent. Leaves up to 14 by $ in., oblong, pubescent ; petiole 
0-4 in. long. Spikes terminal, short; bracts imbricate, up to ¢ by 
$ in., ovate, much acuminate, hairy; bracteoles 4 in. long, linear. 
Sepals 4 in. long, gland-hairy. Corolla-tube 4 in. long, subcylindric ; 
lips } in. long, anticous 3-lobed, posticous oblong and subentire. Anther- 
cells muticous; pollen ellipsoid, pores 8. Capsule } in. long, 2-seeded ; 
seeds hairy.—Blechum hamatum, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
220. Petalidium (?) hamatum, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 3 B. 299, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367. Schwabea ecbolioides, 
Lindau in Engl. Jahrb, xx. 58, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
3 B. 346, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 372. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Taita; Ndara Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2436! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Pangani Steppe, 2700 ft., Volkens, 
552! and without precise locality, Fischer, 296! Portuguese East Africa: Lower 
Zambesi ; Sena, Peters! British Central Africa: North Kalahari Desert, near 
Chukutusa Salt Pan, Lugard, 223! 
11. E. trinervium, (. B. Clarke. Leaves 1} by { in., rhom- 
boid-ovate, obtuse. Bracts 4 by } in., broad-elliptic, narrowed at 
the base, distinctly 3-nerved, tip acuminate ; otherwise as Z. hamatum.— 
Schwabea ecbolioides, var. tomentosa, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 59. 
Mozamb. Dist, German East Africa, Fischer, 284! 
