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332 CI, VERBENACEE (BAKER). [ Avicennia. 
Fruit ovoid-cuspidate, compressed, 1-1} in. long.—Benth. in Hook. Niger 
Fl. 487; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 125., tot 
: Déllinger, 7 5! Senegambia : Island 0 
Upper Guinea. Senegal : Déllinger, 73! Roger, 75! Seneg and of 
St. Louis, Brunner, 1! Sierra Leone, Mann, vii.! Don ! Scott-Elliot, 41 20! Liljers « 
Cape Palmas, Vogel! Lagos, Rowland! Niger Delta: Brass, Barter, 46! Giran 
Bassa, Vogel, 101! Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 195! Fernando Po, Milne ! Mann, 
281! \ 
Lower Guinea. Portuguese Congo: Chinchocho, Soyaux, 60! Angola, ~ 
Welwitsch, 5641! 5709! 5726! Congo; Banana marsh, Dupuis. 
Perhaps not distinct specifically from the American J. nitida, Jacq. 
2. A. officinalis, Linn.; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 700. A shrub 
or small tree; branchlets clothed with thin whitish tomentum. Leaves 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 14~3 in. long, {-1 in. broad at the middle, 
acute or obtuse, narrowed gradually to a short petiole, rigidly coriaceo™s 
green and glabrous above, clothed with thin white tomentum beneath. 
Spikes globose, terminal and axillary, on short square — tomentow 
peduncles ; bracts broadly ovate, 1, iu. long, margined with whitis 
tomentum. Corolla-lobes ovate, bright yellow, glabrous inside. Style 
short or scarcely any. Fruit ovoid, compressed, 1 in. long.—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 173; Vatke in Linnea, xliii, 539 ; Klotzsch in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 266 ; Terracciano in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
v. 101; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 604. A. tomentosa, 
Jacq.; Wight, Ic. t. 1481. 
Nile Land. Red Sea: Harnish Island, Slade, 2! Dalac Archipelago, Steudner, 
1307! Nubia: sea coast about 21° N. latitude, Bent! Eritrea: Massowa, Ehren- 
berg, Quartin-Dillon, Hildebrandt, 731, Schweinfurth § Riva, 61, Schech Said, 
Beccari. Somaliland: Aloola, near Bunder Murayah, Playfair! Bay of Anfilah, 
Terracciaro. British East Africa : Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, Volkens, 160! 
Muoa, Holst, 3059! Usaramo ; Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1241! Portuguese East 
Africa : Zambesi Delta; mouth of the Kongone River, Kirk / mouth of the Luabo 
River, Kirk, 11! 45! Inhambane, Peters. 
Also in Egypt, Natal, and the tropical shores of both hemispheres. 
Orper CIT, LABIATZE (by J. G. Baker). 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, 
persistent, often accrescent ; limb usually 5-toothed, sometimes bilabiate 
or 6—-10-toothed. Corolla gamopetalous ; limb usually bilabiate, 2 lobes 
being represented by the upper lip and 3 by the lower. Stamens 
epipetalous, usually 4, didynamous, sometimes reduced to 2; anthers 
usually 2-celled; cells parallel or divaricate, often confluent. Hypo 
gynous disk thick and fleshy. Ovary superior, 4-lobed ; style produced 
from the centre of the lobes, forked at the tip. Fruit of 4 nucules, 
usually included in the persistent calyx. Seeds solitary in the nucules, 
erect ; albumen scanty or wanting; cotyledons flat or convex; radicle 
short, inferior.—Herbs or shrubs, rarely scandent; stems usually 
4-angled. Leaves exstipulate, opposite or verticillate (very rarely 
alternate), crenate or entire, sessile or petioled, usually simple, often, 
