Jussica, | LIX. ONAGRARIEZ (OLIVER). 489 
peduncle of 2,4 in. Seeds oblong, subterete, each enclosed at first 
i an obovate compressed investment, bony within, of the endocarp. 
Upper Guinea. Nigritania, Barter! : 
Nile Land. White Nile, 12° N. lat., Dr. Brownell! Marshes, 3° N. lat., and Nile 
banks, 10° N, lat. (as J. villosa), Speke and Grant! a 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Shire valley, and elsewhere, Dr. Kirk! 
Differs from J. diffusa in little but the erect or ascending (not rooting) habit. 
Also in Tropical America. 
3. J. acuminata, Sw. Fl. Ind. Oce. ii. 745. An erect simple or 
sparingly branched glabrous herb, from a few inches to 1-2 ft. Stem 
obtusely angled. Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
distinctly petiolate, narrowed to an acute or subacute apex, base cuneate 
or slightly rounded narrowing into the petiole, entire, with 13-17 
lateral veins curving forward on each side of the rather prominent 
midrib ; 3-4 in, long, 1-14 in. broad. Flowers yellow, small, about 
+ in. in diameter, tetramerous, shortly pedunculate or subsessile. Ovary 
and peduncle usually not exceeding 4—3in. Capsule narrow, apparently 
hot exceeding ?in. in length. Seeds (at least the lower ones) each singly 
enclosed in ultimately dehiscent segments of endocarp. 
adap Guinea. Sierra Leone and Nigritania, Barter! Dr. Baikie! Gaboon, 
4HaNN | 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Burton! 
“ai Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Peters (Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot., 70. ex. 
Also in Tropical America. 
4. J. villosa, Lam. Dict. iii. 331. An erect branching herb from a 
few inches to 3 or 4 ft. in height. Stem firm, woody, often slender, 
terete, with raised decurrent lines or extremities subalate, more or less 
hirsute above, at least at the leafy extremities, usually glabrescent below, 
rarely so throughout. Leaves from narrow-linear to linear-lanceolate, 
wcute, gradually narrowed to the base, usually without distinct petiole, 
2~9 In. long, frequently not exceeding 1—12th in. in breadth. Flowers 
small, subsessile, yellow, 4-merous. Capsule 3-14 (2) in. long. Seeds 
nearly round, compressed, about 4 line diameter. 
a. (Leaves linear-lanceolate.) 
Pper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Barter! Camaroons river, Mann! 
Nile Land. Ukidi and Madi U Nile, Speke and Grant 
: Madi, Upper Nile, Speke and Grant. : 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi and Gen valley of Shire, Drs. Kirk and Meller! Zan- 
vibar, 74° S. lat. (as J. angustifolia), Speke and Grant ! 
8. (Leaves uarrow-linear.) J. linearis, Willd. Sp. ii. 575. : 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia! Bassa, 7. Vogel ! Abbeokuta, Irving! Confluence 
of Quorra and Tschadda (form with shorter hirsute linear leaves), Barter! I have not 
i ae Abyssinian plant cited by Richard. 
Videly spread in tropical countries, 
5. J. linifolia, Vahl, Eclog. Amer, 32. Erect with a firm but slender 
Woody terete stem, marked with faint decurrent lines or very narrowly 
alate above, from a few inches to 2ft. or more (8-10 o in height, 
usually freely branched above, branches divaricate, wholly glabrous. 
“aves linear-lanceolate, narrowed to each end, acute or subacute, 
