Monechma.] xcviii. acanthace.e (clarke), 215 



J. Gregorii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1894, 138; Lindau in Eiif,'l. Pri. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 373. J. alhiflora^ Ehrenberg MS., not of Blume. Gendarussa 

 debilis, Nees in Linn^ea xvi. 302. 



WHe Z.and. Kordofsin, Kotachy, 261 ! 759 ! Ffund^ 167 ! Darfur, Pfund, 424 ! 

 YaI\\\q»^\a, Kotschy, 49! Galabat : ^l\\K.Vimm2i, Schweinfurth, 124! Eritrea : Keren ! 

 iS/^ewrfner, 1520! Bogos, 5000 tt., Hildebrandt, 441! Abyssinia: Eilet, Ehrenberrj ! 

 Wadi Togodele, JEhrenberg ! Gagcros, 3500 ft., Schimper, 179 ! Gapdia, Schimper, 

 759 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 419 ! 749 ! 756 ! Somaliland : Adda Galla, 

 James cf Thrupp ! Ogaden, Riva, 339 ! IJerbera, Robecchi, 243, and without precise 

 locality. Miss Edith Cole! Mks. Lort- Phillips ! British East Africa: near Lake 

 Buringo, Gregory ! 



IVXozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Karagwe, Speke Sf Grant, 433 ! 

 Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 2175 ! Usambara, Hoist, 10 ! Ukauii ; Mrogoro, 1600 

 ft., Stuhlmann, 8200! Unyamwezi ; Iramba District, Stuhlmann, 4217 I British 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, 3000-4000 ft., Wkyte ! 

 between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 94 ! 



Var. /3 hirsutior, C. B. Clarke. Stem very hairy. Mature leaves hairy beneath ; 

 bracts densely white, ciliate on the margin. — Justicia debilis, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, Bot. ii. 345. 



XTile Iiand> British East Africa: Taita ; Maungu Mountain, Johnston! and 

 Ndara Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2397. Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6749 ! 



Mozainb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara, Kwa Mshuza, Moist, 8991 I 



All the specimens of this have dried a very dark green instead of the grey yelluw- 

 green of typical M. bracteatum. 



Var. 7 angustifolia, C. B. Clarke. Leaves narrower, in an e.xtreme form 5 by 

 •| in. — M. angustifolium, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 412. Justicia blepharostegia, Drege, 

 Zwei Pfl. Docum. 160, 195 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 43. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi, near Sena, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire River, Kirk ! 



Var. 5 non-strobilifera, C. B. Clarke. Flowers 3-1 clustered in distant leaf- 

 axils ; upper clusters approximate. 



Nile Z.and. Eritrea : Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 442 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Kondowe U> Karonga, 

 2000-6000 tt., Whyte ! 



Var. e stricta, C. E. Clarke. Bracts elliptic-oblong ; spikes narrower. 



Wile Iiand. Eritrea : Keren, Steudner, 1499 ! Abyssinia, Schimper, 207 ! 

 511 ! 876 ! Steudner, 1521 ! 



Var. ^ eciliata, C. B. Clarke. Bracts without -cilia; otherwise as typical 

 M. bracteatum, Hocbst. 



Nile Xiand. Eritrea : near Ginda, 3300 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 2195 ! 



XVKozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasalaml ; Nyika Plateau, 6000- 

 7000 ft., Whyte ! 135 ! 118b ! 



Also in Arabia. 



3. M. (?) scabrinerve, 6'. B. Clarke. Leaves 2 by j in., reticu- 

 late beneath by prominent nerves (both primary and secondary), 

 minutely scabrous. Biacts J by ^ in., elliptic, acute, scabrous-nerved 

 and with a few long white simple hairs ; otherwise as typical M. bi-ac- 

 teatum. 



