Megalochlamys. | XCVIII, ACANTHACEE (CLARKE), 241 
anther-cells are linear-oblong, exactly parallel, and at equal height, which does not 
satisfy Anderson’s diagnosis of his genus Ecteinanthus (Rhytiglossa) ; the inflorescence 
is really remote from that of Ecteinanthus. 
3. M. linifolia, Lindaw in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 346. Shrub, 
woody, much branched, glabrescent. Leaves ? by } in., oblong, obtuse, 
subsessile, smooth, margins recurved, midrib glandular at the base. 
Axillary floral leaves } by ? in., cordate, yellow-green, glabrous; inner 
floral leaves narrower with 2-3 flowers in the axil of each; flower 
bract and bracteoles 0 or minute. Sepals zz in. long, linear, scabrous. 
Corolla not seen. Capsule } in. long, 2-seeded, glabrous; stalk short ; 
placentze not rising elastically ; seeds tubercular, scabrous, hispid.— 
Dicliptera (2) linifolia, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. (1896) 80. 
Nile Land. Somaliland; Ahl Mountains, 1800-3300 ft., Hildebrand?, 830! 
Merehan, Robecchi, 249! 250 ; Bela, Riva, 1462! 
52. GRAPTOPHYLLUM, Nees; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, 
Pi. ii. 1118. 
Calyx small, divided nearly to the base into 5 subequal linear seg- 
ments. Corolla definitely 2-lipped, moderately large, red; tube funnel- 
shaped, curved ; anticous lip of 3 ovate reflexed lobes (central lobe out- 
side in the bud); posticous lip ovate-oblong, very shortly 2-fid. 
Stamens 2 (2 rudiments added); anther-cells 2, linear-oblong, muticous, 
placed at equal height ; pollen very short-ellipsoid, with 3 broad bands 
reaching the poles. Ovules 2 in each cell; style clavate, hardly 2-tid at 
the tip. Capsule (in Australian species) ellipsoid, 4-seeded, on a short 
solid cylindric stalk; placenta not rising elastically from the base of 
the valves; seeds glabrous, nearly smooth, obscurely rugose-tubercular. 
—Glabrous shrubs. Panicles (almost racemes) many-flowered, terminal, 
sessile, rather dense; flowers pedicelled and subsessile, in clusters : 
bracts and bracteoles very small. 
Species 2, in Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia, besides the subjoined. 
1. G. hortense, Vees in Wail. Pi. As. Rar. iti. 102. Leaves up to 
6 by 24 in., shortly narrowed at either end, entire; petiole } in. long. 
Panicles 1-2 in. long, 10-40-flowered; pedicels 0-4 in. long. Calyx 
% in. long. Corolla-tube 3 in. long; lips 4 in. long.—DC. Prod. xi. 328 ; 
T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 51; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 545; Lindau in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 147. (. pictum, 
Griff. Notul. iv. 139; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 
827, fig. 132, A-D. Justicia picta, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii, 21; Bot. 
Mag. t. 1870 (var. luridosanguinea). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: in gardens, Barter! near Kitchom, Scott- 
Eltiot, 4326! Cameroons, Preuss, 376! 401! Staudt, 4551! 
This plant, often cultivated with blotched leaves, is doubtless only introduced at 
Sierra Leone; its native habitat is uncertain. Bentham gives, for the genus 
Craptophyliwin, capsule usually 2-seeded. The capsules in the Australian species are 
“seeded. 
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