498 CU. LABIATE (BAKER). [ Zinnea. 
district, Sfuhlmann, 6638! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between the River 
Songwe and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte! Masuka Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., 
Whyte ! Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! 
5. T. gracilis, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 128. A shrub, with 
pubescent branches. Leaves subsessile or very shortly petioled, lanceo- 
late or ovate-lanceolate, }-} in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 
entire, coriaceous, pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers ]—3-nate in 
the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels long. Calyx coriaceous, pube- 
scent, finally 4 in. long. Nucules narrowly obovoid, with an oblong 
basal areole. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Unyamwezi ; near Muhulalo, Stuhl- 
mann, 464. 
6. T. Fischeri, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 128. A shrub, with 
pubescent branches. Leaves long-petioled, broadly ovate, about 1 ip. 
long, narrowed or rounded to the base, deeply crenate, glabrous on both 
surfaces. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves on long 
pedicels. Calyx pubescent, not seen fully developed. 
Mozamb. Dist. East Africa: without precise locality, Fiscrer, i. 175. 
7. T. platyphylla, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 194. A shrub, 
with robust tomentose branches. Leaves suborbicular, mucronate, 
cordate, above 2 in. Jong and broad, entire, rather thick, sessile or sub- 
sessile, green and pubescent above, clothed with grey down beneath. 
Racemes 6 in. long; pedicels ;!; in. long; bracts suborbicular, much 
imbricate, 4-2 in. long. Calyx downy, finally } in. long; tube short, 
campanulate ; limb deeply bilabiate. Corolla 3-4 in. longer than the 
calyx. 
South Central. Congo Free State : Lunda; Mussumba, Pogge, 346. 
8. T. vestita, Baker. An undershrub, with slender straight densely 
tomentose branchlets. Leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, entire, 
mivutely mucronate, densely matted with thin whitish tomentum oP 
both sides, the lower 1 in. long. Flowers in pairs from the axils of 
fully-developed leaves, on short pedicels. Calyx densely pubescent, 
} in. long in the flowering stage; lobes orbicular, very short. Corolla- 
tube not longer than the calyx; lower lip of the corolla nearly Z 1D. 
broad. Anthers glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, Holub, 
716! 717! 718! 719! 
%. T. antiscorbutica, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVil. ag. 
An undershrub, with long virgate densely pubescent: branches. Leaves 
2-3-nate, sessile, ovate, entire, strongly mucronate, broadly rounded at 
the base, moderately firm, scabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1-2 1D. 
long. Flowers produced in pairs from the axils of reduced orbiculal 
mucronate leaves }—} in. long; pedicels short. Flower-calyx globose, 
