Orthosiphon. | CI, LABIATE (BAKER). 377 
scarcely pubescent. Lower calyx-teeth long, setaceous. Corolla hairy, 
three times the length of the calyx. 
~ Mile Land. Somaliland: Gerar Amaden, Candeo § Baudi di Vesme. 
8. HOSLUNDIA, Vahi; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1174. 
Calyx small in the flowering stage, with an oblong tube and 5 
small teeth, in fruit much larger, berry-like, closed in at the throat. 
Corolla-tube straight, exserted ; upper lip small; lower larger, concave. 
Perfect stamens 2, anticous, declinate ; filaments free, filiform; anther- 
cells confluent ; posticous stamens represented by two small staminodes. 
Disk glandular. Style shortly bifid at the apex. Nucules ovoid, punc- 
tate, included in the dilated calyx. 
Monotypic. Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 
1. H. opposita, Vahl; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 54. A much- 
branched, erect or sarmentose shrub, reaching a height of 10-15 ft., 
with slender glabrous or slightly pubescent branchlets. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, crenate at the base, dentate, 
3-4 in. long, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Inflorescence 
an ample lax deltoid terminal panicle; branchlets pubescent; bracts 
very small; pedicels as long as the flower-calyx. Flower-calyx pu- 
bescent, yz in. long; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilae, more than twice as 
long as the calyx. Fruit-calyx globose, red, edible-—P. Beauv. Fl. 
Owar. i. 52, t. 33; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 77. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Skhues / Sierra Leone: in a wood neur the Loma burn, 
Scott-Elliot, 502L! French Guinea: Farana, on the River Niger, Scott-Elliot, 
5322! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 4! Aquapim (Acropong) Mountains, 
Thonning. Ashanti: Assin-yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 144! Togoland : Alnfany 0, 
Krause ! Lagos: Abeokuta, Rowland! Lower Niger: Aboh, Barter, 298 | Oware, 
Beauvois. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., Mann, 1252! Yaunde, 
2500 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 83! Fernando Po, Mann, 264! - 
Lower Guinea. Portuguese Congo: Malemba, near Landana, Phillips ! 
Angola: Ambriz, Monteiro ! 
Var. verticillata, Baker, Leaves ternate.—H. verticillata, Vahl a Jenth. le. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 41! Lagos, Barter, 3323 ! Niger Territory; 
Nupe, Barter, 1729! - 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1798 ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Dewévre, 942. 
Var, decumbens, Baker, Stem and leaves more hairy than in the type, inflores- 
cence less compound, flower-calyx larger with an oblong tube.— H. decumbens, Ben 
in DC, Prod. xii. 54. Orthosiphon physocalycinus, A. Rich, Tent. Fl}. Abyss. Hi, 180. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Ginda, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 2200 | peren 
4500 ft., Beccari, 165! Abyssinia, Schimper, 96 ! Quartin-Dillon f Petit! om \ 
East Africa: Nuer district, by the Ghazal River, Schweinfurth, 1171! Uganda, 
Wilson, 93! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 5672 ! 5673! ; 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer! Speke, 8! German East Africa Usa 
bara; Nderema, Holst, 2240! Kilimanjaro, at Marangu, 4800 ft., Volkens, 757! 
