216 PLANTS COLLECTED ON MT. RUWENZORI. 
antieum. 0:8 em. long. Genitalia usque ad 1°1 cm. e tubo coroll: 
eminentia. 
А very distinct plant, known by the ample petiolate broad-based leaves 
with numerous small serrations, the broad spikes, the calyx-lobes 
indurated only at the top, the long white corollas, &с. 
MICROMERIA BIFLORA, Benth, in DC. Prod. xii. 220. 
E. 7000 ft. February. 
Distrib. Nile Land, Mozambique, Upper and Lower Guinea ; also 5. Africa, 
India. 
STACHYs ACULEOLATA, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. vi. (1862) 18. 
E. 8000 and 11,000 ft. February. 
The higher-level specimens are without prickles. 
Distrib. Abyssinia to Cameroons. 
CALAMINTHA ($ Acinos) PARVULA, sp. nov. 
Herbacea, caule gracili humili deorsum repente neenon radicante sursum 
ascendente piloso-hirsutulo deinde рифегию, foliis sparsis parvulis 
petiolatis rotundato-ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis obtusisve nequaquam 
cordatis margine serrato-crenatis planis utrinque pilis paucis strigosis 
appressis albis munitis fac. sup. in sicco nigricantibus, verticillastris 
sepissime 4-7-floris ex foliorum superiorum axillis oriundis, braeteolis 
abbreviatis angustissime linearibus pilosis, pedicellis gracilibus quam 
calyx brevioribus piloso-hirsutis, calycis tubo piloso-hispidulo deorsum 
inflato quam limbus longiore intus pilorum annulo instructo labio postico 
rotundato lobis abbreviatis subulatis labii antici lobis triangularibus 
acuminatis lobis omnibus margine longe ciliatis, corolla tubo ex calyce 
breviter eminente sursum leviter amplificato labio postico quam anticum 
breviore apice truncato integro antici lobis rotundatis intermedio latiore 
emarginato, staminibus anticis subinelusis posticis imminutis cassis, styli 
lobis admodum inzequalibus, 
Hab. Ruwenzori Е. 11,000 ft. February. 
Folia solemniter 0*7 x 0*6 em., firme membranacea, subtus in sicco griseo- 
viridia ; petioli 0:3—0-4 em. long. piloso-hirsutuli. Bracteola: cirea 
0:2 em., pedicelli 0:3 em. long. Calyx totus 06 em. ; tubus 0*4 cm., 
basi faucibusque 0°22 em. lat., medio 0:18 em. ; labium anticum 0*2 em. 
long., hujus lobi 0°15 em. long. ; posticum 0*2 em. long., lobi 0*06 em. 
pilorum annulus ad 0:1 em. infra os insertus. Corolla 0:7 cm. long. 
tubus extus superne pubescens, basi 0:1 cm. faucibus 0:2 em. lat. 
labium posticum 0:15 cem., anticum 0:3 em. long. Stylus 5:5 em. long. 
stigmatis lobus alter debilis 07025 cm., alter incurvus 0*1 em. long. 
> 
To be placed next C. simensis, Benth., from which it can be distinguished 
