Hyptis. | CII. LABIATH (BAKER). 449 
South Central, Congo Free State: Monbuttu; at Kussumbo River, Schwein- 
Surth, 3131 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast Africa: Umba Valley, Smith! Kilimanjaro, 
4000-5000 ft., Johnston ! Volkens, 263!  Usambara; Mashena, Holst, 8786! 
Khutu; bank of the Mgeta River at Zungomero, Speke & Grant! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland ; Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 55! Tanganyika 
Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte! South Nyika Mountains, 4000-7000 ft., 
Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 399! 435! 
W. A native of Tropical America, widely spread in the warm regions of the Old 
orld, 
do. H. suaveolens, Poit.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 126. A much- 
branched erect annual, with slender pilose stems. Leaves petioled, 
ovate, the lower cordate, irregularly crenate, thin, pubescent on both 
surfaces. Cymes few-flowered, umbellate, shortly peduncled, arising 
from the axils of the reduced upper leaves so as to form a lax terminal 
panicle. Calyx-tube campanulate, pubescent, strongly 5-ribbed, finally 
in. long ; teeth subulate, equal, shorter than the tube. 
5859 Peer Guinea. Sierra Leone : Sherbro Island, Garrett in Scott-Elliot Herb. 
50! 
A native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the Old World. 
21. LAVANDULA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ii. 1179. 
Calyx cylindric, straight, usually 13-nerved ; teeth short. Corolla- 
tube slender, cylindric; limb oblique, small, obscurely _ bilabiate. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, included in the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments free, filiform; anther-cells confluent. Disk confluent with the 
Persistent base of the ovary. Nucules smooth, glabrous.—Perennial 
erbs or shrubs, fragrant. Leaves simple or decompound. Panicles 
‘picate ; whorls 2- or many-flowered ; bracts persistent; upper often 
ge, membranous, highly coloured. Corolla small, blue or lilac. 
Species about 30, extending from Madeira to India. 
Upper bracts dilated . . . . ‘ : (LB cent 
Upper bracts not dilated, 
Calyx-teeth deltoid , . . . : : _ 1 voronopife 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate . : . ; mente san 
lL, dentata, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xi. 145. An erect 
much-branched undershrub. Stems densely clothed with white to- 
mentum. Leaves sessile, linear, pinnatifid. Panicles oblong, 1-2 mn. 
vug, On a long stifly erect peduncle; lower bracts orbicular-cuneate ; 
1 Peer large, persistent, ovate, membranous, reddish. Calyx pubescent, 
im. long ; upper tooth dilated into a cordate-ovate membranous 
nPPendage ; lower minute, deltoid. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; 
_ small.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 363. 
10 Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder ; south side of the mountains near Dendera, 
,000 ft., Schimper, 624! . 
Cape Verdes and M adeira, through the Mediterranean region to Arabia. 
VOL. v , 2a 
