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sometimes narrow lanceolate, three to six lines long, and 

 occasionally nine lines. Two opposite bracts one and 

 a-half to three lines long (in the narrow-leaved variety 

 longer and linear-lanceolate). Calyx about one quarter 

 inch long. Corolla rose-tinted ; upper lip almost semi-ovate, 

 very shortly and bluntly two-toothed, or nearly entire ; 

 the lobes or" the lower lip bluntly rounded, the middle one 

 broadest ; the tube with the lower lip slightly crested in two 

 longitudinal folds, below, the cresting doubly barbed, from 

 which arise small folds ascending to the upper lip, indicating 

 possibly two suppressed stamens ; the middle lobe of the lower 

 lip outside in the bud ; the upper lip inside before unfolding ; 

 aestivation imbricate, not contorted. Stamens two, with smooth 

 slender filaments slightly thickened above. Anthers smooth, 

 coherent for a time ; the free lobe oblique and somewhat the 

 higher, the spur of the lower lobe pale and nearly mem- 

 braneous, narrow, and almost acute. Style hairlike, smooth, 

 nearly half an inch long. Stigma very small, semi-ovate. 

 Disc cup-shaped, sinuate- deutate. Ovary four-celled ; gem- 

 mules both superior. Capsule five to six lines long ; the 

 seedless base a little shorter than the hollows of the cells. 

 Seeds brown, round, a little more than one line across, with 

 flattened prickly rugosities, half surrounded by an acute 

 retinaculum. 



From the neighbouring species of Justicia hygrophila it is 

 chiefly separated, by its shorter and almost shrubby stem, 

 greater hairiness, smaller leaves (often toothed), leafy bracts, 

 the often solitary flowers, corollas more evidently hairy on the 

 outside, and (as to the variety with narrow bracts) the longer 

 stalked capsule ; aud, finally, the seeds more warty than 

 granulated with the thickened edge. 



Flowers in August and September, and prefers a limy soil. 



Schcenus Tepperi. F. v. M. ; loc. cit., p. 106. (Orel. Cyperacese). 



Very dwarf, stem very short, one-spiked, much exceeded by the 

 very narrow-chanelled leaves ; lowest bracts produced into a 

 long narrow leafy appendage ; the other bracts few, mem- 

 branous, with a rather wide margin ; a single fertile flower ; no 

 hypogynous bristles ; seed vessel three-cornered, obovate, pale 

 in colour, striated longitudinally with three narrow folds. 



Torke's Peninsula — Otto Tepper. 



Plant forms tufts. Leaves for the most part from one to 

 one and a-half inches in length, barely one-third line in width, 

 beardless, a little rough at the edge. The flowerless part of 

 the stem scarcely equal in length to the peduncular spikelet. 

 Bracts besides the leafy point two and three lines long ; the 

 upper ones narrow but rather obtuse. Stem hollowed out or 



