Pycnostachys. | CII. LABIAT# (BAKER). 387 
}in. long. Stamens not longer than the lower lip.—Giirke in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxii. 146. 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7719! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, 
Johnson! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Movnt Zomba, cultivated specimen, 
Livingston ? Blantyre, Buchanan, 152! 207! Mbame Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk! Meller! 
Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 296! 
586 ! 
Originally described from a plant raised by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, from 
seeds given them by Dr. Livingstone from Mount Zomba. 
Also in Natal. 
11. ICOMUM, Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. 1897, 329. 
Calyx campanulate or tubular, finally circumscissile above the base ; 
upper lip 3-toothed; lower longer, 2-toothed. Corolla-tube more or 
less exserted from the calyx, slightly curved ; throat oblique ; upper 
lip erect; lower longer, concave. Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted ; 
filaments free, naked; anther-cells confluent. Disk produced on the 
lower side of the ovary into a tongue-shaped process. Style bifid at 
the apex. Nucules ovoid, smooth.—Habit of Holanthus, from which it 
differs by its alternate leaves. 
Endemic. 
Corolla-tube hardly enlarged upwards; lower lip of 
corolla shallowly saccate . . . . . 
Corolla-tube inflated upwards; iower lip of corolla 
deeply saceate. 
Subacaulescent, with large lower leaves and few 
small cauline leaves . 
Stem with many cauline leaves. . . 
Spike simple . . . . . : . 30 lineare 
Spike branched . . . . . . . 4 SD. salicifolium. 
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I. paradoxum, 
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I, subacaule. 
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1. I, paradoxum, ua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. Ne 8 in 
Rovotstock a large oblong tuber. Stem slender, erect, simp + l in. 
long. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, erecto-patent, one  b acts 
long. Spikes short, dense, forming a small terminal panic oe 
larger, linear. Calyx campanulate, pubescent ; teeth minute are 
tube cylindrical, pubescent, 4—5 times the length of t ° yrs i 
small, the lower linear, shallowly saccate. Stamens nearly as g 
the lower lip. 
Upper Gcinea. French Soudan: Fouta-Jallon ; near Timbo, Miquel, 43. 
Described from a sketch kindly sent by M. Hua. 
2.1, subacaule, Burkill in Journ. Linn. Soe. wxxiv 2) , I, i 6, Jigs. 
and 6. A tufted perennial, with stems 5-6 in. long: sual to the 
many, sessile, oblong, obtuse, 3-4 in. long, rarfaces: ‘tom. leaves few, 
se, entire, green and glabrous on both sur aces 8 ike: bracts 
small, bract-like. Flowers in a simple moderately ie On > throat 
dinear, persistent, foliaceous. Calyx campanulate, » /n. long, 
