Tsoglossa. | ACANTHACER (Clarke). 81 
segments linear, with many short few-celled hairs none gland- 
headed ; corolla 3—$ in. long. JZ. Bachmanni, Lindau in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. 57, and in Engl. §& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 344. 
Justicia ovata, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
149, 196. Dicliptera ovata, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 95. Rhytiglossa 
ovata, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 336. Hcteinanthus ovatus, T. Anders. 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 45, 
Coast Reeton: Komgha Div. ; Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 680! 
Eastern Reeton: Pondoland; on stony heights between Umtata River and 
St. Johns River, 1000-2090 ft., Drége ! and without precise locality, Bachmann, 
1272! Natal; Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 45! near Verulam, Wood, 799! 
4. I. Woodii (C. B. Clarke); stems and leaves sparingly hairy ; 
leaves up to 5 by 2-3 in., ovate, acuminate, tapering into a petiole 
1-2 in. long ; inflorescences 2 by 4-4 in., hardly interrupted, forming 
terminal panicles 2-4 in. in diam., and also remote axillary inflo- 
rescences; floral leaves 1-1 in. long, obovate, suddenly contracted 
into a small acute tip; bracteoles } in. long, linear; calyx } in. long ; 
segments linear, with many gland-headed hairs; corolla 4 in. long ; 
capsule 1 in. long, stalked, with 4 tubercular-scabrous flattened seeds 
in the upper half. 
EasteRN Region: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 786! edges of woods, Berea, near 
Durban, 100-200 ft., Wood, 8945! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
1897! 
“This plant does not flower every year; it is commonly believed to flower 
once in seven years only; this year, 1888, it has produced flowers in great 
abundance” ( Wood). 
5. I. prolixa (Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 
344) ; stems hairy; leaves up to 3 by 1} in,, ovate, pubescent on 
the nerves, apex acuminate, base obtusely rhomboid ; petioles up to 
12 in. long ; panicles terminal and axillary, loose, most of the lower 
flowers solitary but some pedicelled ; floral leaves (here mostly 
1-flowered, i.e. bracts) lower ovate-lanceolate, upper linear-Janceo- 
late ; bracteoles 4 in. long, linear; calyx } in. long; segments linear, 
densely viscous with gland-headed hairs; corolla j—; in. long ; 
capsule 3 in. long, stalked, with 4 rough flattened seeds in the upper 
half. Justicia proliza, E. Meyer in Drege Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, 150, 196. Rhytiglossa prolixa, Nees in DC. Prod. 
xi, 336 partly. Ecteinanthus prolixus, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, vii. 45. 
Eastern ReGion: Pondoland; St. Johns River, below 1000 ft., Drege ! 
Various neighbouring species have been sorted with this single collection of 
Drage which differs from them by the loose inflorescence ; in the lower flowers, 
the pedicel is sometimes }-% in. long between the bract and the bracteoles. 
6. I. eckloniana (Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 
344); inflorescence much more dense, with no solitary flowers ; calyx- 
segments broader, linear, but scarcely acute, otherwise as J. prolixa, 
Lindau. Rhytiglossa eckloniana, Nees im Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot. 
ed. ii. 445, in Linnea, xv. 365, and in DC. Prod, xi. 336, Eetei- 
nanthus ecklonianus, T'. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 45, 
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