378 CII, LABIATE# (BAKER). | Hoslundia. 
hills north-east of Lake Tanganyika, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8233 ! Portuguese 
East Africa: bank of the River Luabo, Kirk,18! Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk! 
Morambala Mountain, Kirk ! Lower Shire Valley, Kirk! British Central Africa : 
Nyasaland; Manganja Hills, Meller! Zomba and east end of Lake Shirwa, Meller ! 
Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Songwe River and Karonga, 1700- 
2000 ft., Whyte, 58! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 410! 916! Rhodesia ; 
Tamasetze, Holub! Gashuma Plain, Holub, 1919! Leshuma Valley, Holud ! 
Also in South Africa and Madagascar, 
9. ALVESIA, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1176. 
Calyx small in the flowering stage, with a campanulate tube and 
very small obtuse lobes, in fruit large, scariose and inflated. Corolla- 
tube scarcely longer than the calyx; throat dilated, oblique; upper lip 
very short; lower large, oblong, concave. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
declinate; filaments free; anther-cells confluent. Disk thick, equal, 
entire or shortly lobed. Style shortly bifid. Nucules obovoid, 
granular. 
Endemic and monotypic, 
1. A. rosmarinifolia, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 55, t. 19. 
A much-branched undershrub, 3-4 ft. high, with woody branches and 
small square densely hairy branchlets. Leaves small, sessile, lanceolate, 
entire, rather rigid, with reflexed edges, very hairy. Whorls many- 
flowered, forming simple dense racemes ; bracts small, ovate ; pedicels 
4—{ in. long, densely hairy, like the rhachis. Calyx in flower } 1. 
long, densely coated with whitish pubescence, in fruit ventricose, 1 10. 
long. Corolla pale lilac; tube } in. long; lower lip decurved, as long 
as the tube. Stamens as long as the lower lip.— Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 362; De Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, i. t. 42. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, 1000 ft., Hens, 88! Angola : 
province of Huilla, 3800-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 1636! Chella Mountains, Johnston ! 
Cunene River, Johnston ! 
I think the plant mentioned in Gen. Plant. J. ¢., raised by Messrs, Rollison from 
seeds given them by Dr. Livingstone, is a form of the same species, I suppose either 
from the Mozambique or South Central districts. 
10. PYCNOSTACHYS, Hook. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ii. 1177. 
Calyx slightly accrescent ; tube short, campanulate ; teeth 9, sub- 
equal, subulate, rigid. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, deflexed and 
dilated at the throat ; upper lip short, 4-toothed ; lower longer, deeply 
concave. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate ; filaments filiform, free ; 
anther-cells confluent. Disk subequal. Style shortly bifid. Nucules 
subglobose, smooth. — Perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, broad or 
narrow, sessile or petioled. Whorls condensed into a dense terminal 
spike ; bracts small. Corolla bright blue or violet. 
