226 BOTANY OF SOCOTKA. 



E. striatum, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xii. (1883), 89. Tab. 

 LXXVII, A. 



Fru ticosum ramis striatis ; foliis longe petiolatis plus minusve ovatis ; bracteis integris pilosis 

 viscidis ; bracteolis calyce longioribus ; corolke limbo tubo subajquilongo calyceque duplo- 

 longiore. 



Frutex ramis glaucis striatis lepidotis. Folia petiolata ovata v. ovato-oblonga v. subelliptica v. 

 ovato-lanceolata v. subrhomboidea 2-3 poll, longa f-1 poll, lata apice obtusa augustata 

 basi cuneatim attenuata v. subrotundata obscure crenata coriacea glabra lseto-viridia ; 

 petiolus |— 1 poll, longus striatus. Spiccv tetragonse 3 poll, longse termiuales v. in axillis 

 supremis positse pilis glanduloso-capitatis viscidie rhacbi pubescente, floribus approximatis 

 solitariis v. 1-3-nis in axillis bractearum imbricatarum oppositarum obovatarum v. 

 oblongo-ellipticarum v. obcuneatarum v. trapeziformium acutarum v. breviter acuminatar- 

 um ^— | poll, lougarum 4— £ poll, latarum integrarum vemilosarum viscido-pilosarum. 

 Bracteolce lineari-lanceolatse § poll, longse calyce longiores molliter et viscide pilosse. 

 Calyx alte 5-fidus r 7 2 poll, longus, segmentis lineari-lanceolatis apice filiformibus 

 membranaceis nervis a basi ad apicem currentibus extus viscide pilosis. Corolla 1£ poll, 

 longa, tubo sursum ampliato T V poll, longo, labii antici lobis subsequalibus linearibus obtusis 

 ^q poll, latis, labio postico vix bilobato in medio ^ poll. lato. Stamimim filamenta 

 pilosiuscula exserta; antberse oblongse basi sagittatse T ^ poll, longse. Ovarium 4-ovulatum 

 apice pilosum ; stylus 1 poll, longus basi pilosus. Ca/psula § poll, longa pubescens \ poll, 

 diam., stipite £ poll, longo. Semina orbiculata § poll. diam. rugoso-muricata. 



Nom. Vern Kilea (B.C.S.). 



Socotra. On the Haghier bills at an elevation over 2000 feet. B.C.S. n. 

 504. Schweinf. n. 652. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



A new species of tins, hitherto monotypic, genus. The other species E. 

 Linneaniim, Kurz (loc. cit.), is a well known and widely-spread type in 

 tropical Africa, Arabia, and India, and passes through a vast number of forms, 

 many of which have been described as species under the genus Justicia. From 

 that genus, however, they are readily separated by the four-celled muticous 

 anthers, and have been well associated by Kurz in his genus Ecbolium, The 

 extensive synonymy is given by T. Anderson (in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. (1864), 

 116) under the Linnean name Justicia Ecbolium. 



In habit and some technical characters our plant is very like the type, but 

 differs from all the forms of this in, firstly, the longly-petiolate leaves. In E. 

 Linneaniim, the leaves of almost all the forms are very shortly stalked, or are 

 subsessile, and in the petiolate forms the stalk never reaches nearly the length it 

 attains in our specimens. But secondly, and more markedly, our plant differs 

 in the corolla; for it wants the long narrow tube of E. Linneanum, and the broad 

 segments of the lower lip. The whole corolla is indeed much shorter, has a rela- 

 tively wider and much shorter tube, with which the limb is nearly equal, and the 

 segments of the anterior lip are narrow, linear, and subequal. and equal in length 

 to the slightly wider shortly-bilobed posterior lip. Again, the bracts in our 



