350 Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 



tuse at the apex and an orbicular bract subtending every pair of 

 flowers); Justicia (§ Nicoteba) seslerioides n. sp. (with densely- 

 flowered second heads and narrow sharp-pointed bracts and brac- 

 teoles); y. (§ Harniera) Forbesll n. sp. (nearest /. Mollugo C. B. 

 Clarke agreeing in its shortly cymulose inflorescences, but differing 

 in the larger corollas and the normal capsules twice as long) ; /. 

 (§ AnseUia) tanalensis n. sp. (differs \romJ. delicatula Elliot in the 

 small, oblong-lanceolate, petiolate, subcoriaceous leaves, the larger 

 caiyx and corolla, etc.); Hypoestes Elliotii n. sp. (nearest //. teu- 

 crioides Nees, but having obovate or obovate-oblong bracts, longer 

 involucres, larger corollas, etc.); H. leptostegia n. sp. (nearest H. 

 microphylla Baker, but with small, shortly stalked ovate leaves, limb 

 of corolla as long or longer than the tube, and differently shaped 

 lower lip); H. betsiliensis n. sp. (near H. saxicola Nees, but easily 

 distinguished by the smaller, terete, one flowered, 4-bracteolate in- 

 volucres); Amphiestes glandiilosa nov. gen. (Justicieanim) et spec. 

 (affinity with Hypoestes, but peculiar in its bilobed calyx, which re- 

 sembles in every way a third pair of bracteoles). 



The diagnoses of the two new genera are as follows : 

 Melittacanthas: Calyx amplus, campanulatus, alte 5-partitus, 

 lobis lanceolatis inter se aequalibus. Corollae tubus sat longus, su- 

 perne ampliatus; limbus 2-labiatus labio postico lato subgaleato bifido 

 (aestivatione interiore?) lateribus reflexis antico 3-lobo lobo intermedio 

 quam laterales latiore. Stamina 2, juxta medium tubum inserta; 

 filamenta breviter exserta; antherae 2-loculares, connectivo lato in- 

 structae, loculus alter altero paullo altius affixus ambo oblongi, basi 

 mutici. Staminodia 0. Pollinis grana ambitu rotunda, aliquanto com- 

 planata, lamina circumferentiali instructa, 2 porosa (Gürtel-poUen). 

 Discus breviter cupulatus. Stylus filiformis; Stigma capitato-bilobum; 

 ovarii loculi 2-ovulati. Capsula oblonga, calyce inclusa, fere a basi 

 4-sperma. Semina compressa, 2 fertilia minute scrobiculata, 2 sterilia 

 glabra, retinaculis brevibus fulta. — Suffrutex? ramosus, ramis maxime 

 divaricatis. Folia membranacea, integra. Flores mediocres, in cymas 

 terminales sessiles plurifloras aggregati. Bracteae bracteolaeque 

 parvi. 



Amphiestes: Calyx hyalinus, bilabiatus, labio antico bifido bi- 

 nervoso, postico tridentato trinervoso, labiis duobus basi 

 connatus. Corollae tubus superne gradatim dilatatus, rec- 

 tus; limbus bilabiatus, labio postico erecto integro, antico 

 ampliore tridentato. Stamine 2, faucibus inserta, breviter 

 exserta; antherae 1-loculares, muticae. Staminodia 0. Pollinis 

 grana iis Hypoestis et Periestis similia (Spangenpollen). Discus cupu- 

 laris. Stylus filiformis, apice bilobus; ovula quoque in loculo 2. 

 Capsula ovoideo-oblonga, a basi 4-sperma, placentis a valvis haud 

 solvendis. Semina fere levia, retinaculis complanatis truncatis fulta. 

 — Verisimiliter suffrutex parvus. Folia ampla, integerrima. Flores 

 in panicula terminali laxa ramosa dispositi, sessiles vel ramulos breves 

 coronantes. Bracteae parvae. Bracteolae 4, per paria decussata in- 

 sertae, involucrum teres constituentes, interiores cum calycis labiis 

 alternantes. F. E. Fritsch. 



Palibin, J. W., Quelques espfeces nouvelles de la flore 

 chinoise. (Bull. herb. Boiss. T. VI. 1906. p. 18—22.) 



Diagnoses latines de plusieurs espfeces nouvelles de la flore 

 de Chine, dont les types se trouvent dans l'herbier du Jardin 

 imperial de S a i n t - P d t e r s b o u r g. En voici les noms : Guldenstädtia 



