Entry for JUSTICIA Bolusii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
JUSTICIA BolusiiC. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
shrubby, nearly glabrous except the flowers; branches 12 in. long, leafy; leaves 2 by 1/2– 2/3 in., elliptic, obtuse, base narrowed; petiole 1/8– 1/4 in. long; peduncles many towards the top of the branches, about 1 in. long, rigid, mostly simple, with 2–5 flowers clustered at the top; bracts and bracteoles inconspicuous; calyx 1/4 in. long, divided to the base; segments 5, very narrowly lanceolate, minutely pubescent and glandular; corolla 2/3 in. long; one anther-cell much below the other, with a large forked tail; pollen ellipsoid, longitudinally striated, stopples 2, tubercles 0; ovary densely shaggy; style slightly hairy. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; margins of woods near Komgha, 1800 ft., Flanagan, 608!
Notes
This species comes between J. Gendarussa, Linn. f., and J. cordata, T. Anders.
