Justicia. } ACANTHACER (Clarke). 61 
12. J. cuneata (Vahl), Symb. ii. 10); a rigid shrub 1-2 ft. high ; 
branches thick, glabrous or at the top minutely pubescent; leaves 
% by 3-3 in., narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, glabrous, thick, 
drying a dark reddish-brown, narrowed at the base ; petiole O- 3, in. ; 
flowers scattered, axillary, nearly sessile ; bracteoles lanceolate, nearly 
as long as the calyx; pedicel scarcely », in. long, but distinct ; 
calyx 3-1 in. long, deeply 5-lobed ; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, nearly 
glabrous except for seattered hairs ou the margins; corolla } in. long, 
white (Bowie); one anther-eell a little below the other, tailed ; 
pollen ellipsoid, banded, with 2 stopples and 1 row of tubercles on 
each side of each stopple ; pistil glabrous; very young capsule with 
4 similar ovules apparently about to perfect seed. J. Anders. in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. vii. 41 partly; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349. Gendarussa cuneata, Nees in Linnea, 
xv. 367 ; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 126. G. hyssopifolia, Nees in 
Linnea, xv. 368; Drege in Linnea, xx. 200; Adhatoda cuneata, 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 392 partly ; Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 94. 
A. hyssopifolia, a, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 392 partly; Sonder in 
Linnea, xxiii. 94. 
Soutn AFRica: without precise locality, Masson / 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 260! on 
exposed heights by the Sunday River, Bowie, 119! 
J. hyssopifolia, Linn., from the Canaries, is a shrub with very much larger 
leaves and flowers; the Cape plant which Nees has named hyssopifolia, is iden- 
tical with that he has named cuneata, Nees has also named as Tyloglossa cuneata 
the remote Monechma foliolosum below, see p. 74, which does not mateh the 
present species in colour aud has only 4 calyx-lobes (apart from the differences 
in capsule and seeds here treated as generic), T. Anderson does not mention 
J. foliolosa, Drége, but cites Nees in DC, Prod, “ with syn.” 
13. J. mutica (C. B. Clarke); persistently hairy ; branches 10-20 
in. long; internodes 1-2 in. long; leaves 14 by 4 in., ovate; petiole 
up to 1 in. long; flowers axillary, scattered, solitary ; calyx-segments 
exceeding + in, in length, linear; corolla }—-} in. long; anther-cells 
at nearly equal height, muticous or most obscurely tailed at the base ; 
pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples and 1 row of tubercles on either side 
of each stopple; ovary glabrous; style thinly hairy; capsule 4 by 
1 in., 4-seeded. Adhatoda protracta, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 392 
partly. 
Coast Region : in wooded situations in Uitenhage and Albany Divs., Bowie ! — 
The anther-cells are not those of the genus Justicia : the larger calyx, capsule 
and leaves also dv not agree with any exuwple of J. pulegioides. 
14. J. odora (Vahl, Enum. i. 164); an undershrub, 1-2 ft. high, 
glabrous, except the flowers; leaves 1 by {-; 1n., narrowly elliptic, 
obtuse, base narrowed; petiole O-j; in. long; flowers axillary, 
solitary or more rarely 2-3 together; calyx-segments ¢ In. long, 
linear ; corolla 2 in. long, yellow; one anther-cell much below the 
other, tailed ; capsule } in. long, glabrous, 4-seeded ; seeds tubercular- 
