Monechma.] ACANTHACER (Clarke). 73 
2 stopples and 2 rows of small tubercles on either side of each 
stopple ; ovary glabrous; style thinly hairy; capsule nearly 2 in. 
long, 2-seeded; seeds smooth, blotched. Justicia divaricata, Willd. 
ea Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 391. T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
vii. 42; Lindaw in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349. 
J. patula, E, Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 91, 
196 (letter / only). J. orchidioides, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vii. 42. Gendarussa incana, var. villosa, Nees in Linnea, 
xv. 367, G. patula, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 95. Adhatoda divaricata, 
Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 391. A. orchioides var. a, Nees lc. 393. 
Ruellia setigera, Zeyher ex Nees, l.c. 391. 
CENTRAL ReG@Ion: Graaff Reinet Div.; banks of the Zwart River near 
Graatl Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 748! 
WESTERN KeGion: Little Namaqualand; Kaus Mountains, 3000-1000 ft., 
Drege! between Spektakel and Komaggas, 1000 ft., Bolus S$ MacOwan, Herb. 
Norm, Aust.-Afr., 671! 
This plant is exceedingly unlike Justicia orchioides, Linn. f.; yet Nees has 
written on Drdze’s J. patula from locality b ‘ T'yloglossa orchioides, var. a.” . 
13. M. nepetoides (C. B. Clarke); branches quadrangular, glan- 
dular pubescent; leaves 1-2 in. long; corolla + in. long; capsule 
hardly exceeding 1 in. long ; otherwise as M. divaricatum. Adhatoda 
capensis, var. arenosa, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 391. 
Katanart Rea@ion: Prieska Div.; Keikams Poort (Modder Gat Poort), 
Burchell, 1616! Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Klipfontein, Burchell, 2149! 
This might be a variety of VM. divaricatum, with smaller leaves, flowers, and 
seeds; in M. divaricatum the brauches are terete. It must not be interred, from 
Nees having determined this plant as a variety of Justicia capensis, Thunb., that 
it bears any kind even of external resemblance to that species. 
14. M. namaense (C. B. Clarke); a minutely pubescent under- 
shrub; branches 16 in. long, nearly terete, with internodes up to 
2in. long; leaves 1-13 by }-} in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
glabrate, flat, the tip straight (not recurved); flowers few, scattered, 
axillary ; bracteoles + in. long, linear, densely and shortly viscous 
pubescent ; calyx Sok it, long, 4-partite to the base; segments 
linear, minutely pubescent ; corolla } in. long ; one anther-cell 
below the other, tailed ; pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples, banded, 
1 row of tubereles on either side of each stopple ; capsule 2 in. long, 
2-seeded, pubescent at the top; seeds smooth. Justicia namaensis, 
Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxi. 202; Lindau in Enyl. 
§ Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349. 
Wesrern Reeion: Great Namayualand; _Gamosab, Schinz, 25! Little 
Namaqualand ; between Garies and Springbok, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 11175! 
Katanart Rea@ion: Griqualand West, Hay Div. ; betwren Kloof Village 
and Witte Water, on the plains at the foot of the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 
2072! 
15. M. foliosum (C. B. Clarke); an undershrub, nearly glabrous 
except the innovations; branches 4-8 in. long, with internodes 
mostly very short, some up to 1 in, long; leaves 5 by 1 in., cuneate- 
