Megalochlamya.'] xcviii. acanthace.e (clarke). 241 



anther-cells are linear-oblong, exactly parallel, and at equal height, which does not 

 satisfy Anderson's diagnosis of his genus Ecteinanthus {RhijI i(/lo-ssa) ; the inflorescence 

 is really remote from that of Ecteinanthus. 



3. M. linifolia, Lhtdau in Engl. Jahrh. xxvi. o4G. Shrub, 

 woody, much branched, glabrescent. Leaves J by J in., oblong, obtuse, 

 subsessile, smooth, margins recurved, midrib glandular at the base. 

 Axillary floral leaves J by J in., cofrdate, yellow-green, glabrous ; inner 

 floral leaves narrower with 2-3 flowers in the axil of each ; flower 

 bract and bracteoles or minute. Sepals yV in. long, linear, scabrous. 

 Corolla not seen. Capsule \ in. long, 2-seeded, glabrous ; stalk short ; 

 placentse not rising elastically ; seeds tubercular, scabrous, hispid. — 

 Dicliptera (?) linifolia, Lindau in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. (IHIHI) 8(). 



Wrile Iiand. Somaliland; Ahl Mountains, 1800-3300 ft., Hildefjramlf, 830 \ 

 Merehan, Robecchi, 249 ! 250 ; Bela, Riva, 1462 ! 



52. GRAPTOPHYLLUM, Nees ; Benth. et Hook. f. (^en. 

 PI. ii. 1118. 



Calyx small, divided nearly to the base into 5 subequal linear seg- 

 ments. Corolla definitely 2-lipped, moderately large, red ; tube funnel- 

 shaped, curved ; anticous lip of 8 ovate reflexed lobes (central lobe out- 

 side in the bud) ; posticous lip ovate-oblong, very shortly 2-fid. 

 Stamens 2 (2 rudiments added) ; anther-cells 2, linear-oblong, muticous, 

 placed at equal height ; pollen very short-ellipsoid, with o broad bands 

 reaching the poles. Ovules 2 in each cell ; style clavate, hardly 2-fld at 

 the tip. Capsule (in Australian species) ellipsoid, 4-8eeded, on a .^hort 

 solid cylindric stalk ; placentae not rising elastically from the base of 

 the valves ; seeds glabrous, nearly smooth, obscurely rugose-tubercular. 

 — Glabrous shrubs. Panicles (almost racemes) many-flowered, terminal, 

 sessile, rather dense ; flowers pedicelled and subsessile, in clusters ; 

 bracts and bracteoles very small. 



Species 2, in Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia, besides the subjoined. 



1. G. hortense, Xees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 102. Leaves up to 

 () by 2J in., shortly narrowed at either end, entire ; petiole J in. long. 

 Panicles 1-2 in. long, 10-40-flowered ; pedicels 0-J in. long. Calyx 

 1 in. long. Corolla-tube J in. long; lips ^ in. long. — DC. Prod. xi. ;»2H ; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 51 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 545; Lindau in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 147. 0'. pictum, 

 Griflf. Notul. iv. 180; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 

 827, fig. 132, A-D. Justicia picia, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 21; J^ot. 

 Mag. t. 1H70 (var. luridosanyuinea). 



upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : in gardens. Barter ! near Kitchoni, .Scoff- 

 Elhot, 4326 ! Cameroons, JPreussi, 376 ! 401 ! Staudf, 4551 ! 



This plant, often cultivated with blotched leaves, is doubtless only introduced at 

 Sierra Leone; its native habitat is uncertain. Bentham gives, for the genus 

 Graptophi/llum, capsule usually 2-seeded. The capsules in the Australian species arc 

 4-8eeded. 



