462 Cll. LABIATEE (BAKER). [ Scutellaria. 
simple stems about 1 ft. long. Leaves lanceolate, entire, almost sessile, 
slightly hairy, the central ones the longest, 14-2 in. long. Inflorescence 
racemose, long, lax; whorls 2-flowered; rhachis pubescent ; bracts 
small; pedicels as long as the flower-calyx. Calyx pubescent, } in. long 
in flower, } in. in fruit ; tubecampanulate; upper lip orbicular, reflexed ; 
lower shorter. Corolla } in. long; tube widening gradually to the 
throat ; lips 4 in. long. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Kurshook Ali’s Seriba, Schweinfurth, 
1594! Mittu, Schweinfurth, 2822 ! 
2. S. polyadena, Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 56. 
Stems erect, glandular-hairy, 14-2 ft. long, simple or slightly branched. 
Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, 2-4 in. long, narrowed to 
the base, toothed, dark green above, paler beneath, thinly clothed with 
spreading hairs on both surfaces. Whorls 2-flowered, placed in the 
axils of the upper leaves; pedicels } in. long, densely glandular-pubes- 
cent. Flower-calyx } in. long, glandular-pubescent ; lips much shorter 
than the tube. Corolla violet-blue, protruded nearly an inch from the 
throat of the calyx; lips } in. long. Stamens not exserted.—De Wild. 
& Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, t. xlvii. figs. 8-10. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Upper Marangu, near Lake Tanganyika, 
De Beerst, 96. 
3. S. paucifolia, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 292. A perennial, 
much branched at the crown of the root, with erect pubescent stems 
3-6 in. long. Leaves very few and very small, very shortly petioled, 
ovate, crenate, pubescent. Inflorescence racemose, 2—3 in. long ; rhachis 
pubescent ; whorls 2-flowered ; bracts very small; pedicels 4 in. long. 
Calyx pubescent, } in. long in flower, } in. in fruit; tube campanulate ; 
upper lip orbicular, entire; lower shorter. Corolla pubescent, above 
3 in. long; tube widening gradually to the throat ; lips 4 in. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, 
Thomson! British Central Africa : Kalangwizi River at Lake Moero, Carson, 12 of 
1894 collection! Tanganyika Plateau, Carson! 
This, the following, and S, Livingstonei are very closely allied. 
4, S. De Beerstii, Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 57. A 
tall perennial herb. Stem robust, pubescent. Leaves petioled, ovate- 
oblong, 4-4 in. long, obtuse, crenate, dull green, subglabrous. Whorls 
crowded, 2-flowered ; pedicels short, pubescent; bracts small, ovate- 
lanceolate. Calyx } in. long in flower, finally } in. long, glabrescent, 
shining; lips small. Corolla violet-blue, protruding about 3} in. from 
the throat of the calyx ; lips |! in. long. Stamens not exserted.—De 
Wild. & Durand, Ill. Fl. Congo, t. xlvii. Figs. 1-7. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mpala, on Lake Tanganyika, De Beerst, 
42. 
Dd. S. Livingstonei, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 162. A 
perennial, much branched at the crown of the root, with erect wiTy 
