XCIV. ACANTHACE.E. 819 



to ^ in. long ; flowers blue or deep violet-bluish. In the damp shady 

 primitive forest of Mata de Pungo in the praesidium ; fl. May 1857. 

 Nos. 5177, 5192. 



19. LEPIDAGATHIS Willd.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1101. 



1. L. pallescens S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 308, C. B. CI. 

 in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 127. 



Pungo Andongo. — A strictly erect herb, apparently perennial, with 

 whitish rosy flowers. In sandy places at the sides of forests near 

 Quitage, rather sparingly ; fl. March 1857. No. 5084. 



2. L. scabra C. B. CI., I.e., p. 129. 



Neuracanthus scaber Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost. Afr., C, p. 369 

 (1895), partly. 



Pungo Andongo.— Flower whitish. In the moist forest between 

 Candumba and Mangue near the river Molemba, in company with 

 a Bambusacea (cf. Oxytenanthera ahyssinica Munro ; Welw. herb. no. 

 1134) ; fl.-bud and only one fl. (not seen by me), March 1857. 

 No. 5104. 



20. MONOTHECIUMHochst.; Benth. &• Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 11 04. 

 1. M. aristatum T. And. in Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 234 



(1860); S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 309; C. B. CI. in Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. v. p. 176. 



Justicia aristata Wall. List, n. 2481 (1830) ; Nees in Wall. PI. 

 As. Rar. iii. p. 115 (1832) ; non Yahl. Anthocometes aristatus 

 Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 312 (1847). 



Golungo Alto. — An erect herb ; rhizome woody ; leaves mem- 

 branous, bright green, much paler beneath ; flowers white, caducous. 

 In wooded places among the mountains of the western Queta above 

 N-delle, not uncommon ; fl. beginning of June 1856. Nos. 5155, 5198. 

 At Calomba on the Luinha ; fr. July 1856. No. 5134. A slender 

 undershrub, with rigid flexuous branches. In shady wooded places 

 close to the rivulet Quiapoza near Sange ; imperfect inflorescence 

 affected with a gall ? Feb. 1856. Doubtfully referred here. No. 1228. 



Pungo Andongo. — In fr. No. 5197. 



21. BRACHYSTEPHANTJS Nees; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 1105. 



1. B. occidentalis Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 53 (16 

 Nov. 1894) ; C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 179. 



Island of St. Thomas. — Leaves ranging up to 3 in. long by H in. 

 broad or rather broader ; inflorescence terminal, oblong, many-flowered, 

 rather dense, 2 in. long. On the coast in wooded places ; fl. Dec. 1860. 

 No. 5208. 



22. JUSTICIA Houst., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 

 1108, excl. sect. Monechma. 



1. J. nilgherrensis Wall. List, n. 2435 (1830). and ex Nees in 

 Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. p. 103 (1832) ; C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 V. p. 185 (1899). 



Adhatoda nilgherrensis Nees, I.e. A. nilgherrica Nees in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. p. 386 (1847). ./. Betonica S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 1880, p. 309, forma i. p. 310, var. neilgherriensis T. And. in 



