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quite different from it in the indumentum and in the cymes. In 

 general appearance it greatly resembles the Indian L. hyalina Nees. 



L. Lindaviana Buscalioni & Muschler in Engl. Jahrb. xlix. 

 494 (1913) = L. nemorosa S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1910, p. 253. 



Justicia andongensis C. B. Clarke. 

 Angola, common in thickets about the Forte Princeza Amelia 

 and elsewhere ; Gossweiler, 2394. 



Justicia (i Calophanoides) umbratilis, sp. nov. Suffrutex 

 ramosus caule ramulisque foliosis quadrangularibus scabriusculis, 

 foliis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis obtusis basi obtusissimis 

 membranaceis utrobique scabridis, floribus in axillis superioribus 

 (vetustioribus satis distantibus junioribus approximatis) 2-3-nis, 

 bracteis calycem paullo excedentibus oblongo-ovatis obtusis 

 sparsim hispidulis, bracteolis minutis, calycis segmentis 5 lineari- 

 lanceolatis longe acuminatis hispidulis, corollae extus puberulac 

 tubo calycem leviter excedente sursum paullulum amplificato 

 labio antico tubo paullo longiore suborbiculari 3-lobo lobo inter- 

 medio quam laterales multo latiore labio postico ovato-oblongo 

 apice bidentato, staminibus exsertis, capsula 4-sperma glabra. 



Hab. Like Moero, Lukongolava, under trees ; Kassner, 2804. 



Folia usque ad 3-8 x 1*3 cm., sed pleraque + 20 x 8 mm., in 

 sicco griseo-olivacea. Bracteae circa 6-7 x 2-5-3 mm. Bracteolae 

 subulata?, 1 mm. long, vel paullo ultra. Calycis segmenta 5-5 mm. 

 long. Corollae tubus 6-5 mm. long., inferne 2 mm. faucibus 

 3-5 mm. lat. ; labium anticum 75 x 6-5 mm., hujus lobus inter - 

 medius 1*5 x 2-75 mm., lobi laterales 1*5 x T25 mm. ; palatus 

 optime prominens ; labium posticum 6*5 x 2-5 mm. Filamenta 

 4-5 mm. long; antherarum loculus sup. basi obtusus, 125 mm. 

 long., loc. inf. (calcare incurvo incluso) fere 2 mm. Ovarium 

 1-5 mm., stylus 7 mm. long., hie deorsum pilosus. Capsula 

 oblongo-ovoidea, apice subito acutata, 8 mm. long. Semina par- 

 vula, plano-compressa, subtiliter tuberculata, dilutissime brunnea, 

 diam. 1 mm. leviter excedentia. 



Differs from J. Galeopsis T. And., with which the alliance 

 seems closest, in several respects, e. g. the scabrous foliage, the 

 broad bracts, narrower more lengthily acuminate segments of 

 the calyx and smaller apparently white (or yellow) corollas. 



J. Lazarus S. Moore. 



Congo, bank of Lafuka River; Kassner, 2869 a. British 

 East Africa, Embu district ; Lieut. Orcle Browne. 



Monechma platysepalum S. Moore. 



Benguela, Lengue ; Gossweiler, 4933, 4949. 



Adhatoda Eylesii, S. Moore. 



Congo, West Kundelungu, under trees ; Kassner, 2795. 



Peristrophe usta C. B. Clarke. 



Congo, Elisabethville ; Rogers, 10242. 



3. Note on Samara polygama Roxb. 

 Two species of Samara are described in Roxburgh's Flora 

 Indica (ed. Carey, i. p. 435). For want of type specimens these 



