Tab. 5637. 

 TINNEA ^thiopica. 



Violet-scented Tinnea. 



Nat. Ord. Labiate. — Didynamia Gtmnospeumia. 



Gen. Char. Calycis 2-labiati tubus subenervis, ventricosus, verticaliter 

 depressus, hbiis planis subeequalibus integerrimia semi-orbicularibus. 

 Corolla tubus brevis, rectus, latiusculus, cylindricus, limbi verticaliter 

 depressi 2-labiati labio superiore abbreviate) 2-lobo, inferiore porrecto 3- 

 lobo, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis intermedio multo majore subor- 

 biculari emarginato. Sfat?u'na 4, filatnentis baai barbellatis ; anthers in- 

 clusas, parvse, reiniformes, filamento oblique adnata?. Stylus gracilis, stig- 

 mate ina?qualiter 2-fido. Fructus . . . — Frutex erect us, ramosus, ramis tere- 

 tibus cano-pubescnifibns. Folia parva, petiolata, ovato- v. ovoideo-lanceolafa, 

 acuta v. subobtusa, integerrima. Verticillastra axillaria, pauciflora, peduncn- 

 lata. Flores odori, majusculi, pedicellate calyce viridi, corolla fusco-pur. 

 purea. 



Tixjtea asthiopica, Kotschy in ' Plantce Tinneance' ined. cum tabula. 



Amongst the more important scientific results of the late 

 gallant explorations of Central Africa, has been a great 

 accession to our knowledge of its previously little known 

 flora; and for this we are indebted almost exclusively to 

 three individuals — Dr. Kirk, during Livingstone's explora- 

 tion of the Zambesi and Shirr rivers and Lakes Shirwa and 

 Nyassa; Captain Grant, during Captain Speke's and his own 

 adventurous journey to the upper waters of the Nile ; and 

 Mdlle. Tinne and Herr Heuglin. during their disastrous 

 Nile voyage. Singularly enough, the beautiful plant here 

 figured was found by all three expeditions, and I do not know 

 to whom the merit of being its first discoverer belongs, though 

 we owe to Mdlle. Tinne the introduction of the plant, and 

 the specimen here figured. Dr. Kirk gathered it on the 

 Manganga hills, in October, 1862; and Captain Grant, in the 

 Umyoso forest, in August of the same year; but where Mdlle. 

 Tinne's party, who collected it in 1863, found it, I do not 

 know, their collections being at Vienna ; and my late friend 



apbil 1st, 1867. 



