Hypoestes. | ACANTHACEX (Clarke). 89 
Abundant in Tropical Africa. 
Nees cites ‘‘ Hypoestes clinopodia, E. Meyer in Cat. Pl. Drage, a 1837.” 
I find no such Hypoestes in Drége’s book of 1843. Nees (as usual) omits to 
cite the page. The Hypoestes clinopodia cited by Nees is not an error for 
Justicia clinopodia, HE. Meyer, which is a dissimilar plant, referred by Nees 
himself to Dicliptera. Moreover, T. Anderson in reducing the Hypoestes 
clinopodia, Nees, says that his was the plaut collected by Drége. 
6. H. Forskalei (R. Br. Prod. 474, in Obs.); stem and leaves 
‘nearly glabrous; leaves up to 13 by 2 in., lanceolate, obtuse ; 
2 outer bracts of the spikelet glabrate or scarcely puberulous ; 
otherwise as H. verticillaris, KR. Br. Nees in DO. Prod. xi. 507; T. 
Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 49; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 333, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. CO. 371; O. B. 
Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 249. H. depauperata, Lindau in 
Engl. Jahrb, xx.52. Justicia paniculata, Forsk. Fl. Afgypt.-Arab. 4. 
J. Forskalei, Vahl, Symb. i. 2. 
KALAHARI Ree@ion: Bechuanaland; near the pass in Kamhanin Mountains, 
Burchell, 2182! Kuruman, Marloth, 1120! 
Frequent in Tropical Africa. 
Imperfectly known Species. 
7. H. menthefolia (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. 
Documente, 160, 193). 
SourH Arrica: Natal; hills near Durban, below 500 ft., Drége. 
This name is not mentioned either by Nees or by T. Auderson. 
8. H. glabrata (Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 96). 
Sout Arrica ; without precise locality, Krebs, 252. 
XXIX. MACRORUNGIA, C. B. Clarke. 
Calyx divided about half-way down into 5 lanceolate segments. 
Corolla red; tube about 3 in, long; anticous lip 1 in. long er more, 
outside in the bud; posticous lip exceeding 1 by 4 in., emarginate. 
Stamens 2; tilaments much exserted; anther-cells 2, oblong, muti- 
cous, one a little below the other ; pollen ellipsoid, with several 
rows of small tubercles and 2 stopples, longitudinal bands obseure. 
Capsule ovoid or oblong-ovoid ; placent# rising elastically from the 
base of the valves. 
Shrubs; leaves entire, ultimately glabrous; flowers in strobilate spikes ; 
bracts prominent, imbricate. 
Species 3 in Tropical Africa, besides the one here described, 
If the genus is sunk, the species must be placed in Rungia, as by T, Anderson. 
1. M. longistrobus (C. B. Clarke); a shrub; branches, young 
leaves beneath, and innovations densely shortly white hairy ; leaves 
5 by 12 in., narrowed at either end, soon glabrate, tip obtuse ; 
petiole 2 in. long; spikes 3 by { in., terminal on the main stem and 
on short axillary branches ; bracts } by } in., imbricate, green with 
