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bractlets linear-filiform, half as long as the calyx ; calyx i cm. 

 long, scabrous, the lobes lance-linear or linear-subulate, nearly as 

 long as the tube ; corolla tube 2 cm. long, minutely puberulent, the 

 limb 5-6 mm. long ; capsule oblique, equaling or slightly longer than 

 the calyx, acuminate ; seeds coarsely tuberculate. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 632310, collected on 

 the western slopes of Mount Kenia, British East Africa, in the 

 bamboo zone, altitude about 3,000 meters, September 28 to October 

 7, 1909, by E. A. Mearns (no. 2338). No. 2328 from the same 

 region also represents this species. 



In general characters this plant is related to Rhamphicarpa 

 meyeri-joJiaimis Engler, described from Kilimanjaro, but that has 

 more copious pubescence and shorter, triangular calyx lobes. 



JUSTICIA ROOSEVELTII Standley, sp. nov. 



Frutex dense ramosus, ramis dense cinereo-puberulis ; folia 

 numerosa, sessilia vel subsessilia, laminis parvis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 apice acutis vel acutiusculis, basi obtusis, integris, dense cinereo- 

 puberulis, coriaceis ; flores axillares et solitariae, subsessiles, bracteis 

 subulatis, medium calycis vix aequantibus ; calyx dense puberulus, 

 lobis lanceolato-subulatis ; corolla rosea, i cm. longa, extus dense 

 puberula ; capsulae cinereo-puberulae, seminibus 4. 



Shrub about 30 cm. high, fruticose nearly throughout, intricately 

 branched, the branches stout, densely cinereo-puberulent, whitish ; 

 leaves numerous, sessile or subsessile, the blades oblong-lanceolate, 

 3-6 mm. long, 1-1.4 mm. broad, acute or acutish at the apex, obtuse 

 at the base, entire, densely cinereo-puberulent or in age subglabrate, 

 coriaceous, the margins often slightly revolute ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, subsessile ; bracts subulate, less than half as long as the 

 calyx ; calyx 3-4 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, densely cinereo- 

 puberulent ; corolla i cm. long, rose-colored, densely cinereo-puberu- 

 lent outside ; anthers hirtellous, the lower cell long-caudate ; capsule 

 6 mm. long, densely cinereo-puberulent ; seeds 4, coarsely tuber- 

 culate. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 630746, collected 

 along the Southern N'guaso Nyiro River, " Sotik Country," British 

 East Africa, altitude 1,800 to 2,100 meters, July 24 to 30, 1909, 

 by E. A. Mearns (no. 721). No. 524 from the same region is also 

 this species. 



Related, apparently, to Justicta urhaniana Lindau, of Somaliland, 

 but differing conspicviously in pubescence as well as in size of 

 flowers. 



