446 CH. LABIATH (BAKER). | Capitanya. 
long as the lower lip of the corolla; filaments united towards the base ; 
anthers oblong, with parallel cells ; style shortly bifid at the apex ; lobes 
spreading. Nucules ovoid, smooth. 
Endemic. Monotypic. 
1. C. otostegioides, Giirke in Eng. Jahrb. xxi. 106. A low fleshy 
undershrub, clothed with grey pubescence, with decumbent main stems 
and ascending flowering branches. Stem-leaves in distant pairs, obovate- 
cuneate, shortly petioled, obtuse, crenate, about 1 in. long, fleshy, clothed 
with grey pubescence on both surfaces. Whorls 6-flowered, aggregated 
in a lax terminal racemose panicle 3-4 in. long; pedicels as long as the 
flower-calyx ; bracts minute. Calyx in the flowering stage  in., finally 
4 in. longand broad. Corolla more than twice as long as the flowering 
calyx. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: near Qualamat in the Upper Lebka Valley, 2000- 
5800 ft., Miiller-Prosko-Capitany, Heuglin. Somaliland : without precise locality, 
Ghika. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro Region: in the Steppe 
between Ugweno Mountain and the Papyrus swamp, 2300 ft., Volkens, 492. 
19. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1177. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; upper tooth large, oblong, concave, de- 
flexed ; 4 lower teeth very short. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, 
deflexed at the middle, with a funnel-shaped throat; limb bilabiate ; 
upper lip short ; lower much longer, incurved, deeply concave. Stamens 
4, didynamous, deflexed ; filaments filiform, shortly connate at the base 
in the African species ; anther-cells confluent. Disk glandular. Style 
shortly bifid. Nucules ovoid, smooth.—Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 
sometimes fleshy. Whorls aggregated into dense spicate panicles. 
Flowers small. 
Species about 15, all but one East Indian. 
1, A. africanus, Baker ex Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXX: 
94, <A perennial herb 4 ft. high, with erect stems and densely shortly 
pubescent branches. Leaves distant, nearly sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 
crenate, subcoriaceous, subscabrons above, densely pubescent with raised 
veinlets beneath, the lower 4-5 in. long. Panicles very dense, sparingly 
branched, peduncled, cylindric, the end one 3-4 in. long; pedicels 
obsolete. Fruit-calyx } in. long; upper tooth oblong, concave, deflexed, 
much longer than the tube; 4 lower teeth suborbicular. Corolla } in. 
long. Stamens shortly connate at the base.—Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxvii. 65. A. Hngleri, Briquet in Eng). Jahrb. xix. 190. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near the Loma burn, on alluvial soil, Scott- 
Elliot, 5033 ! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Hens, B86. 
South Central. Congo Free State: on the banks of the Upper Lulua River, 
Pogge, 372; between Nyangwe and Kimbundn Mountains, Pogge, 1019. 
