Monechma.] ACANTHACE® (Clarke). 71 
41 in. long; one anther-cell below the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid, 
bands and tubercles obscure; ovary below glabrous, with a few 
gland-headed hairs in the upper part, base of style with scattered 
simple hairs. Justicia Linaria, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vii. 42. J. patula, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, 108, 196 (letter a only). 
Coast ReGion: Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; near Ebenezer, below 500 ft., Drege! 
There is no capsule on the single fragmentary example, so that it is doubtful 
whether it is a Monechma or a Justicia ; it differs from the similar species of 
Monechma, by its longer calyx. Jt is really an undescribed species, for T. 
Anderson only cites the name as equivalent to Genaarussa Linaria, Nees, which 
again is unpublished except so far that Nees himself says it was his Adhafoda 
orchioides, var. angustifolia, to which again he says this fragment of Diége’s 
belonged. I suspect, from the small piece of the branch on which the shoots 
stand, that M. Linaria was 2-3 ft. high or more; Justicia orchioides, E. Meyer, 
from locality b (Uitenhage Div.; between Coega River and Sunday River, 
1000 ft.), has also been matched with M. Linaria; but it has neither flowers, 
fruit, nor indication of inflorescence. 
7. M. acutum (C. B, Clarke); undershrub; branches 6-15 in. long, 
nearly round or subquadrangular, with minute white deflexed hairs, 
becoming glabrate ; internodes attaining 1 in. in length; leaves ¢ by 
1 in., linear-lanceolate, acute at either end, subsessile, becoming 
nearly glabrous ; flowers rather numerous in the upper axils, in oue 
branch forming an interrupted spike 6 in. long; bracteoles } in long, 
linear-lanceolate; calyx } in. long, deeply 5-partite; lobes linear- 
lanceolate, acute, with white hairs on the lower margins; corolla 
2 in. long, white (Burchell); lower anther-cell much lower than the 
other, tailed ; pollen ellipsoid, bands and tubercles obscure ; ovary 
glabrous ; style thinly hairy nearly to the top, young capsules 2-seeded, 
Coast Reaion: Humansdorp Div.; between Galgebosch and Mclk River, 
Burchell, 5761! 4785! Uitenhage Div. ; Grassrug, near Uitenhage, Buur / 
Baur’s plant has broader much less obtuse leaves than in the type collections 
of Burchell above described; but it agrees so closely in the inflorescence, the 
induinentum of the stem and calyx, the small flowers and the (imperfectly ripe) 
capsule, that it cannot conveniently be treated as a species from our scanty 
muterial. 
8. M. arenicola (C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 218); 
a viscous pubescent undershrub ; branches 6-10 in. long, internodes 
mostly 1-1 in. long; leaves up to 1 by 7-3 in, lanceolate, acute, 
subsessile, with long white hairs ; flowers solitary, few, approximate 
towards the ends of the branchlets; bracteoles.2, scarcely } in. long, 
linear ; calyx 4 in. long, 4-partite nearly to the base ; lobes linear ; 
corolla 2 in, long; one anther-cell lower than the other, tailed, 
pollen ellipsoid, with 2 stopples, tubercles minute in 2 rows on each 
side of each stopple; capsule 4 in. long, pubescent, 2-seeded ; seeds 
smooth, blotched. Justicia arenicola, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 264 ; 
Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 151, and in Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 3B, 349. 
Katanart Reoron: Prieska Div.; Zand Valley, Burchell, 1631! Hopetown 
Div. ; near Hopetown, 4500 ft., Muskett in Bolus Herb., 2563 ! 
Also frequent in Lower Guinea. 
