212 XCVIII. ACANTHACE.« (CLARKE). [Justicia, 



(1-8-flowered ex Schinz), nearly i by \ in., roundish, short-acuminate, 

 with a prominent scarious margin ; bracteoles \ in. long, lanceolate. 

 Sepals 5, J in. long, linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous. Corolla J in. 

 long. One anther-cell below the other, strongly tailed ; pollen ellipsoid, 

 with 2 stopples ; a single row of minute (but pointed) tubercles on each 

 side of each stopple. — Lindau in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 

 349. 



ZiOwer Culneai German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; between 

 Tiras and Rehoboth, Schinz ! 



There is no fruit ; possibly a Rungia. 



80. J. somalensis {Franch. Sert. Somal., 53). Small shrub; 

 branches slender, crispedly pubescent. Leaves obovate - oblong 

 or obovate, obtuse, sparingly adpressedly puberulous ; petiole short. 

 Racemes lax ; flowers solitary, between 2 ovate or orbicular almost 

 membranous subsessile ciliate bracts ; bracteoles subulate. Calyx 

 5-partite nearly to the base ; segments linear. Corolla \-'^ in. long, 

 concealed by the 2 flatly adpressed bracts as in Dicliptera, purple, 

 pubescent without ; tube not longer than the calyx ; limb distinctly 

 2-lipped ; upper lip narrow, 2-toothed, lower spreading. Stamens 2 ; 

 lower anther-cell long-tailed. Capsule clavate, pubescent ; cells 2-ovuled ; 

 seeds orbicular, flat. 



IVile Ziand. ISomaliland : Mana, Revoil. 



44. MONECHMA, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 374. 



Sepals 5, small, narrow, posticous one sometimes much smaller. 

 Corolla small, 2-lipped ; posticous lip subentire. Stamens 2 ; one anther- 

 cell below the other, long-tailed, tail often clavate, 2-fld at tip ; pollen 

 ellipsoid, longitudinally banded, with or without rows of tubercles. 

 Ovary slightly hairy near the top ; ovules 1-2 in each cell ; style hairy 

 at the base, subequally and shortly 2-lobed at the top. Capsule small, 

 ellipsoid, 2-seeded, compressed, hairy (except in M. lolioides), on a short 

 solid stalk or subsessile ; placentae not rising elastically from the base of 

 the valves ; seeds discoid, quite smooth without tubercles or corruga- 

 tions, usually glabrous, rarely with minute hairs. — Leaves entire. 

 Spikes strobilate or lax, or flowers axillary and solitary ; bracts ovate 

 to linear-oblong; bracteoles minute or 0. 



Species 21, African ; one extending through Arabia to Bombay. 



The present genus is not equivalent to Justicia, Sect, iv. Monechma, Lindnu (in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 349), which includes several species which do 

 not satisfy Hochstetter's characters for Monechma. The genus, as here understood, 

 differs from Justicia by the capsule having two smooth seeds ; it is Schtvabea of Nees 

 and Bentham, not of Endlicher (which had 4 stamens and did not belong to the tribe 

 Eu-Justiciece). 



*ScHWABEA. — Seeds with a tuft of rigid many-celled thick 

 hairs at the hilum, and a similar tuft at the opposite 

 margin. 

 Inflorescence hispid with long white hairs . . . \. M, hispidum. 



