Tinnea. | CH. LABIAT# (BAKER). 497 
1. T. physaloides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 163. A shrub, 
with slender woody densely pubescent branches. Leaves petioled, ovate, 
2-3 in, long, acute, broad)y rounded at the base, entire, subglabrous on 
the upper surface, pubescent beneath. Flowers in a terminal raceme ; 
pedicels pubescent, 2-4 lin. long. Calyx at first oblong, membranous, 
pubescent, 7-8 lin. long, with two short rounded lips, finally vesicular, 
cordate-ovoid, 1-1} in. long. Corolla pubescent, 1 in. long. Stamens 
included. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Masuka Plateau, 6500- 
7000 ft., Whyte, 289! 
2. T. vesiculosa, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 129. Stem and 
branches tomentose. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 24-3 in. long, 
acuminate, rounded at the base, entire, pubescent on both surfaces. 
Flowers solitary or in 3-5-flowered cymes in the axils of the upper 
Jeaves ; pedicels short, tomentose ; bracts petioled, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Calyx pubescent, above $ in. long in the flowering stage, very accrescent, 
finally vesicular. Corolla reddish-violet. Nucules lanceelate-—Giirke 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 466. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; near Nglewenu in the Uluguru 
Mountains, 4200 ft., Stuhlmann, 8843. 
3. 'T. filipes, Baker. A shrub, with pubescent slender branchlets. 
Leaves sessile, linear, small, thick, rigid, obtuse, mucronate, finely 
pubescent. Inflorescence a lax terminal raceme, with 2 flowers in each 
whorl and with very slender pedicels reaching }-} in. long, subtended by 
very minute bracts. Flower-calyx } in. long, densely hairy. Corolla- 
tube hairy outside, longer than the calyx. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Livingstone Hills to Uluna, Johnson ! 
4. T. sethiopica, Kotschy and Peyr. Plant. Tinn. 25, t. 11. A 
much-branched shrub, 3-5 ft. high, with woody branchlets shortly 
hairy upwards. Leaves oblong, shortly petioled, usually entire, firm, 
glabrous or pubescent beneath, the upper, 1 in. or less long, the lower 
13-2 in. long, cuneate at the base. Whorls laxly dispersed, usually 
2-flowered ; bracts oblong, foliaceous, about as long as the flowers ; 
pedicels filiform, {-} in. long. Calyx finely pubescent, }-} in. long in 
the flowering stage, with lobes nearly as long as the tube, finally nearly 
1 in. long. Corolla dark purplish-brown ; lower lip 3 in. long. Anthers 
glabrous. Wing of the fruit as broad as the clavate nucleus.— Bot. Mag. 
tt. 5637 and 6744; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 139; Britten in 
Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 396; Giirke in Eng]. Jahrb. xxviii. 466. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; in the forest reyion tov ards Bongo, Malle. 
Tinne. Mittu; Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 2814! Unyoro, Speke §° Grant ! Madi; banks 
of Madi burn, “Speke & Grant, 705! Nandi district ; Nzowi River, Scott-Elliot, 
6693 ! Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2857! Nyika country, near Mombasa, i ake- 
jield ! Mombasa, Wakefield! Mombasa Island, Hildebrandt, 1924! Mkonumbi, 
Gregory. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kiri! German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., 
Johnston i Usambara ; Masheua, Holst, 3495! Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 89674 ! Usaramo 
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