Tinnea. | LABIAT (Skan). 383 
XXIV. TINNEA, Kotschy et Peyr. 
Calyx campanulate, with 2 broad entire or nearly entire lips, 
ovoid, much enlarged inflated and deeply 2-valved when in fruit. 
Corolla-tube short, broad, enlarged at the throat, scarcely longer 
than the calyx; limb 2-lipped; upper lip short, broad, erect- 
spreading, emarginate or 2-lobed ; lower lip much larger, spreading, 
3-lobed ; median lobe much larger than the lateral rounded lobes, 
emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous (the lower pair longer), 
ascending under the upper lip, more rarely somewhat exserted ; 
anthers 2-celled ; cells short, divergent, finally subconfluent. Disk 
equal. Ovary shortly 4-lobed ; style shortly bifid ; lobes acute, the 
upper usually shorter. Nutlets obovoid-clavate, long-contracted at 
the base, attached by a lateral areole, furnished on the back with a 
broad membranous elliptic or orbicular wing. Seeds attached 
laterally. 
Shrubs or perennial herbs, pubescent or grey-tomentose; leaves sessile or 
petiolate, usually entire, the upper similar or gradually reduced to bracts ; 
whorls usually loosely 2-flowered, axillary or in terminal racemes; pedicels 
2-bracteolate ; flowers fragrant, rather small, usually brownish- or violet-purple, 
Distrip. Species 20, of which 18 are Tropical African ; 1 in Arabia. 
1. T. Galpini (Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™° sér. iii. 1094, 
Tinnea); an undershrub 6-15 in. high or more; _ branches 
slender, terete, densely and shortly pilose-pubescent ; leaves sub- 
sessile or shortly petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, up to 
1 in. long and } in. broad, minutely apiculate or obtuse at the apex, 
slightly narrowed at the base, entire or nearly so, sparingly pilose- 
pubescent both sides, gland-dotted beneath ; petiole up to 1} lin. 
long ; flowers violet-scented, solitary or sometimes in pairs, axillary 
or in terminal more or less unilateral racemes up to 6 in. long ; 
whorls remote ; bracts ovate-elliptic or ovate, about as long as to 
much longer than the pedicels ; pedicels up to 6 lin. long, densely 
and shortly pilose-pubescent, minutely bibracteolate; calyx (in 
flower) broadly campanulate, 3—4 lin. long, densely pilose-pubescent, 
purplish ; lips rounded, 14-2 lin. long, 34-4 lin. broad, the upper 
slightly longer than the lower; calyx (in fruit) ovoid, inflated, 
membranous, up to 8 lin. long and 5 lin. broad ; corolla claret- or 
prune-colour, about 4 lin. longer than the calyx; tube funnel- 
shaped, 4-5 lin. long ; upper lip about 1-1} lin. long, about 23 lin. 
broad, emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed ; median lobe transversely 
oblong, 24 lin. long, 44-54 lin. broad, emarginate ; lateral lobes 
broadly rounded, 1} lin. long, 13-24 lin. broad. 
KALAHARI Recion: Transvaal; Barberton and neighbourhood, 3000-4500 ft., 
Galpin, 1212! Thorncroft, 39 (Wood, 4148)! Miss Leendertz, 4114! Klippan, 
Rehmann, 5288! 5289! 
