Lippia. | CI. VERBENACE# (BAKER). 279 
1. L. nodiflora, Rich.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 585. A peren- 
nial herb. Stems wide creeping, slender, obscurely pubescent, rooting 
from the nodes. Leaves opposite or fascicled at the nodes, obovate, 
shortly petioled, sharply dentate in the upper half. Spikes usually 
solitary, on long slender peduncles, at first globose, } in. diam., after- 
wards oblong ; bracts orbicular, obtuse, or obscurely cuspidate, the outer 
4 in. diam. Calyx ., in. long. Corolla about as long as the bract. 
Capsule ,'; in. diam., slightly adherent to the calyx.—A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 168; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 120; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 563. Zapania nodiflora, Lam. Mlustr. i. 59. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Aguar, Schimper, 1010! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 260! 1852! British Somaliland: Dooloo, Miss Edith Cole! 
Golis Range, Mrs, Lort-Phillips ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 5638! 5694! Curror! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: East shore of Lake Tanganyika, Scott 
Elliot, §367! Portuguese East Africa: Quilimane, Kirk! Lower Zambesi ; near 
Expedition Island, Kirk! British Central Africa: River Shire, Elephant Marsh, 
Kirk! 
Also in the Mediterranean Region, South Africa, Madagascar, and the warmer 
regions of Asia and America, 
2. L. Oatesii, Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ed. 2, 407. An 
undershrub with slender woody branchlets, clothed with very short 
whitish pubescence. Leaves in threes, nearly sessile, oblong, obscurely 
crenate, subcoriaceous, 1-14 in. long, rather rugose, subscabrous above, 
pubescent, with raised veins beneath. Heads globose, 4 in. diam., in 
fours on short peduncles from the upper nodes ; bracts orbicular, very 
hairy, not cuspidate, the outer 4 in. broad. Flowers not longer than 
the bracts. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: South African Gold Fields, Baines / 
Matabeleland, Oates ! 
3. L. Radula, Boker. An undershrub 3-4 ft. or more high. Stem 
stout, shortly pubescent, not branched below the inflorescence Leaves 
in threes, sessile, oblong, distinctly crenate, rigidly coriaceous, very 
Scabrous on the upper surface, densely pubescent, with raised veips 
beneath, the lower 3-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad. Heads oblong 
ovate, } in. lung, a few aggregated together at the ends of long sult 
ascending peduncles so us to form an ample terminal panicle ; me 
closely imbricated, orbicular, very hairy, not cuspidate, the outer ¢ In. 
broad. Flowers scarcely longer than the bracts. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Bongo ; Sabbi River, Schweinfurth, 2616! 
4. L. somalensis, Vatke in Linnea, xiii. 527. 2 muel 
branched undershrub 3-4 ft. high, with very scabrous slen er woody 
branchlets. Leaves in pairs, shortly petioled, obovate or or re a ; 
obtuse, very rigid, under an inch long, crenate, scabrous and rug 
