«Eolanthus. | CII. LABIATA (BAKER). 391 
9. 46. abyssinicus, /Hochst.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 80. A 
perennial, with long thick fusiform roots and short tufted slender 
glabrous stems ascending from a decumbent base. Leaves lanceolate, 
sessile, glabrous, moderately firm, 1-1} in. long, entire or obscurely 
serrate. Panicle small, lax; lower branch-bracts foliaceous ; spikes 
short ; lateral shortly peduncled ; flower-bracts oblong, foliaceous, i in. 
long. Calyx } in. long, obscurely lobed. Corolla }-4 in. long ; lower 
lip orbicular, as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the lower lip.— 
A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 185; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 362. 
_ Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Shoata, 7000-8000 ft., Schimper, 1855! and 
Without precise iocality, Schimper, 562 ! 
6. AB. Stuhlmannii, Giirke in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 345. A 
much-branched undershrub, with glabrous stem and branchlets. Leaves 
sessile, quite glabrous, rather fleshy; lower bipinnatifid, with linear- 
lanceolate lobes; upper simply pinnatifid or linear-lanceolate, entire. 
Cymes forming a terminal spike; flowers sessile; bracts round or 
broadly ovate, subvillous, rather longer than the calyx, deciduous. 
Calyx campanulate, circumscissile below the middle, truncate, sub- 
villous outside in the upper part. Corolla-tube narrow; upper lip 
nearly entire ; lower with 4 round lobes. Stamens and style exserted. 
Mozamb, Dist. (German East Africa: in the region south of the Victoria 
Nyanza at Mwanza and in the Usiha district, Stuhlmann, 4204, 4658. 
7. #&. Holstii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 221. Stem branched, 
pubescent, 8-9 in.long. Lower leaves shortly petioled, upper subsessile, 
all oblong or oblong-lanceolate, under 1 in. long, obscurely and irregu- 
larly toothed, narrowed to the base, sparsely pubescent above, dotted 
with black glands beneath. racts lanceolate, sessile, subacute, pilose, 
3-4 in. long; flowers sessile. Calyx cylindrical, pubescent, zo—} in. 
long: upper tooth deltoid; lateral lanceolate-deltoid ; lower round- 
ovate, connate. Corolla 4} in. long; tube broad, deflexed at the base; 
upper lip 4-toothed, lower cymbiform. 
Mozamb. Dist. (terman East Africa : 
8. AE. ukamensis, (iirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 147. Stem and 
branches pubescent or subglabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate- 
lanceolate, 13 in. long, entire or obscurely crenate, rather fleshy, pubes- 
cent on both surfaces. Cymes lax ; branches long, flexuose, pubescent, 
often curved at the tip; Howers remote, sessile ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, pubescent. Fruit-calyx 1—} in. long, longer than the bract, 
tubular, curved, pubescent, truncate. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa; Ukame ; (wale, 6000 ft., Stvh/mann, 
8160. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 891A. 
9. JE. rivularis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 869. An 
annual succulent subglabrous herb, with prostrate stems 4-9 in. long, 
divaricately branched in the lower part. Leaves ovate or elliptical, 
t-L in, long, subobtuse, narrowed to the base, the lower shortly petioled. 
Usambara: nesr Mlalo, Holst, 421, 
