448 CII. LABIATH (BAKER). | Hyptis. 
peduncles from the wpper nodes. Calyx 4 in. long; tube oblong ; teeth 
subulate, shorter than the tube. Corolla white, dotted with red.— 
Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 489. 
Upper Guinea, Senegambia, Heudelot, 922! Sierra Leone: Kicham on the 
River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4343 ! and without precise locality, Morson ! 
Also in Tropical America. 
3. H. spicigera, Lam.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 87. Annual. 
Stem tall, erect, branched, pubescent. Leaves petioled, oblong, with a 
cuneate base, thin, inciso-crenate, slightly hairy. Whorls many- 
flowered, forming dense oblong or oblong-cylindric racemose panicles, 
the end ones 2-4 in. long; pedicels densely hairy; bracts linear. 
Fruit-calyx 11 in. long; tube oblong ; teeth shorter than the tube. 
Corolla whitish, scarcely longer than the calyx.—Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl. 489; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 230; Briquet in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 62. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 121! Gambia, Ingram! Sierra Leone : 
Sama District, near Luseniya, Scott-Hiliot, 4238! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 
1282! 
Wile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 514! British East Africa: 
Bongo; Gir, cultivated, Schweinfurth, 2495! Madi (Gani), Speke & Grant ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Dewevre, 862c. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mtowa, on Lake Tanganyika, Descamps. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and 
Karonga, Whyte! between Songwe River and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 64! 
Also in Tropical America and Madagascar, 
Var. (?) Cienkowskyi, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 122. Dwarf, 
Stem clothed with rigid deflexed hairs. Leaves ovate-oblong, subacute, Racemose 
panicles twice as long as in the type or more. 
Wile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl; near Kassan, Cienkowsky. 
4. Hi. pectinata, Poit.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 127, Annual. 
Stems erect, branched, pubescent, 4-6 ft. long. Leaves thin, petioled, 
small, ovate, crenate, pubescent. Cymes compound, forming racemose 
panicles. Fruit-calyx pubescent, 4-1 in. long; tube oblong ; villous at 
the throat inside; teeth small, setaceous. Corolla not longer than the 
calyx.—Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 489; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
186; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 122; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxix. 1389; Briquet in Bull. Soe. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 61. Mesospherum 
pectinatum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 525; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 873. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Kukuma, Scarcies River, Scott-Hlliot, 
4667! Guinea, Thonning ! Lagos: Abeokuta, Irving ! Ogbomoshaw, Barter, 3392! 
and without precise locality, Barter, 20180! Lower Niger : Idda, Barter, 941 : 
Nile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 544! Eritrea: Ainsaba Valley, 
near Keren, Séeudaer, 1403! Abyssinia: on mountains near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 
634! 1559! British East Africa : Madi, Speke & Grant, 722! 
Lower Guinea. (iaboon: Gaboon River, Mann, 1018! Lower Congo: in 4 
marsh at Stanley Pool, Hens, 31B! and without precise locality, Dewevre, 76, 532. 
Angola, Welwitsch, 5487, 5530! 5531! 5532! 5560, 5561! 
