298 LABIAT& (Brown). | Hoslundia. 
apex; stigma minutely 2-lobed. Nutlets enclosed in the fleshy 
calyx, dorsally compressed ; testa thick and slightly mucilaginous. 
Herbs or small shrubs; leaves opposite or whorled; inflorescence terminal, 
paniculate, with the primary branches simple or branched ; flowers small ; fruit 
berry-like. 
Distris. Species 3 or more, the others in Tropical Africa. 
1, H. decumbens (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 54); apparently a 
tall herb; stems angular, velvety; leaves in whorls of 3 ; petiole 
1-23 lin. long; blade 1-24 in. long, 5-13 lin. broad, lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, serrulate 
or crenate-dentate, minutely adpressed-pubescent above, minutely 
subtomentose beneath ; panicle somewhat corymbose, with simple 
raceme-like branches; whorls 2—3 lin. apart, 2—3-flowered ; bracts 
3-2 lin. long, about } lin. broad, linear, acute, minutely pubescent, 
persistent ; pedicels }#-2 lin. long, pubescent; flowering-calyx 
somewhat ovoid-campanulate, shortly 5-toothed, pubescent and 
densely covered with minute glands outside, glandular inside at the 
upper part and pubescent on the teeth; teeth subequal, 4—} lin. 
long, ovate or deltoid-ovate, subobtuse ; fruiting-calyx much enlarged, 
becoming fleshy, subglobose, nearly closed at the mouth, } in. in 
diam., orange-yellow ; corolla about 2} lin. long, exserted, glandular 
outside on the upper part; tube 2 lin. long, straight, slightly 
enlarging upwards ; upper lip erect, about 1 lin. long, with 4 small 
unequal lobes, pubescent on the back ; lower lip ? lin. long, orbicular, 
concave, obtuse ; stamens all free, inserted at the upper part of the 
corolla-tube ; upper pair reduced to staminodes, with very rudimen- 
tary anthers, included ; lower pair fertile, 1} lin. long, exserted ; style 
stout in proportion to the flower, glabrous, exserted, incurved at the 
apex ; stigma minutely 2-lobed, obtuse ; nutlets dorsally compressed, 
orbicular in outline, 1-1} lin. in diam., brown. Briq. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. 2” sér. iii. 661. H. verticillata, Brig. in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 
x. 60, not of Vahl. H. opposita, Vahl, var. decumbens, Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 377. 
Kaanari Recion: Transvaal ; Avoca, near Barberton, 1900 ft., Galpin, 1246! 
Swazieland ; near Mafutane, 1500 ft., Bolus, 12251! 
Eastern Recion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Matolla, Schlechter, 11695 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
This is easily distinguished from the other species by the pubescence on the 
leaves and simple raceme-like branches of the panicle. 
XIII. IBOZA, N. E. Br. 
(Moscnosma, Auct., not of Reichb.) 
Flowers very small, dicecious ; male larger than the female and 
having an abortive ovary or style. Calya minute, similar in both 
sexes, campanulate, 3-lobed to the middle, with the lateral lobes 
