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Justicia cuneata

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Identification
Justicia cuneata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for JUSTICIA cuneata Vahl [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 cuneata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE], Symb. ii. 10;—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 41 partly; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 349.
Gendarussa cuneata Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 367; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1840) 126.
Gendarussa hyssopifolia Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Linnæa, xv. 368; Drège in Linnæa, xx. 200
Adhatoda cuneata Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 392 partly; Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 94.
Adhatoda hyssopifolia Nees var. a [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 392 partly; Sonder in Linnæa, xxiii. 94.
Information
a rigid shrub 1–2 ft. high; branches thick, glabrous or at the top minutely pubescent; leaves 2/3 by 1/6– 1/4 in., narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, glabrous, thick, drying a dark reddish-brown, narrowed at the base; petiole 0– 1/12 in.; flowers scattered, axillary, nearly sessile; bracteoles lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx; pedicel scarcely 1/20 in. long, but distinct; calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long, deeply 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, nearly glabrous except for scattered hairs on the margins; corolla 1/2 in. long, white (Bowie); one anther-cell a little below the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid, banded, with 2 stopples and 1 row of tubercles on each side of each stopple; pistil glabrous; very young capsule with 4 similar ovules apparently about to perfect seed. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 260! on exposed heights by the Sunday River, Bowie, 119!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Masson!
Notes
J. hyssopifolia, Linn., from the Canaries, is a shrub with very much larger leaves and flowers; the Cape plant which Nees has named hyssopifolia, is identical with that he has named cuneata. Nees has also named as Tyloglossa cuneata the remote Monechma foliolosum below, see p. 74, which does not match the present species in colour and has only 4 calyx-lobes (apart from the differences in capsule and seeds here treated as generic). T. Anderson does not mention J. foliolosa, Drège, but cites Nees in DC. Prod. “with syn.”

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