846 xcYi. VERBENACE^. [Siphoiianthus 



to an inch long, pubescent-tomentose ; inflorescence consisting of 

 comparatively few-flowered lax leafy bracteate pubescent terminal 

 panicles narrowing towards the apex ; lower peduncles axillary^ 

 3- to 1 -flowered, slender, spreading, 1^ to 2\ in. long, the upper 

 ones successively shorter ; pedicels ranging up to 1^ in. long, 

 mostly shorter ; bracteoles narrow ; flowers violet-blue but less 

 brightly so than in S. myricoides ; calyx shortly campanulate, 

 i in. long, persistent, hairy outside, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes 

 obtuse or rounded ; corolla glabrous outside or nearly so ; the 

 tube about \ in. long and broad, ventricose ; the limb bilabiate, 

 about \ in. long ; the lobes large, obovoid, rounded at the apex, 

 spreading ; the throat hairy ; stamens 4, far exserted, nearly 1\ in. 

 long, somewhat unequal, glabrous, inserted at the top of the 

 corolla-throat; style reaching about the same height, slender, 

 glabrous, bilobed at the apex; young fruit subglobose, about 

 i in. in diameter. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the primitive woods of Mata de Pungo ; fl. 

 and young fr. Feb. 1857. No. 5702. In bushy places at the outskirts 

 of primitive forests and in shady rocky places, rather rare ; fl. and 

 young fr. April 1857. Xo. 5701. In small primitive woods in the 

 prfBsidium ; fl. April 1857. No. 5706. 



This species belongs to the section Cyclonema. 



14. S. dumalis Hiern, sp. n 



A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; branches subterete, pale brown, 

 glabrate, inconspicuously lenticellate ; branchlets softly pubescent- 

 tomentose, leafy at the extremities; buds tomentose; leaves 

 opposite, oval-obovate or elliptical, obtuse or pointed at the apex, 

 wedgeshaped at the base, firmly herbaceous, closely beset with 

 short stifi* pale hairs and minute glands especially beneath, entire 

 or nearly so, pale green, 1 to 1^ in. long by i to |^ in. broad, the 

 floral ones smaller ; petioles |- to J in. long ; inflorescence terminal 

 or sub-terminal, somew^hat leafy and bracteate, rather lax, 2 to 

 4 in. long, hispid-tomentose, the primaiy branches patent, 

 brachiate; common peduncle J to IJ in. long; pedicels ranging 

 up to 5 in. long ; bracteoles spathulate or subulate ; flowers blue, 

 rather numerous ; calyx shortly and obliquely campanulate, 

 i to i in. long, minutely glandular and beset with short whitish 

 stifi" hairs outside, smooth inside, shortly lobed ; lobes rounded at 

 the apex, imbricate at the base, ciliolate ; corolla-tube J to |^ in. 

 long, i in. broad, oblique, ventricose, minutely glandular outside ; 

 limb sub-bilabiate, spreading, veiny, unequally 5-partite ; the 

 lobes oval or obovate, rounded at the apex, \ to ^ in. long ; throat 

 shaggy, slit down one side ; stamens 4, subdidynamous, exserted ; 

 filaments glabrous above, shaggy at the base, inserted at the 

 bottom of the corolla-throat, '-^ to ^ in. long ; anthers yV in. long, 

 glabrous ; ovary glandular-squamulose ; style glabrous, equalling 

 or rather exceeding the stamens, cleft at the apex ; fruit quadrate- 

 globose, somewhat compressed, furrowed down the two sides, \ in. 

 long and broad, \ in. thick, blackish. 



HuiLLA.— In thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; fr. Jan. 1860 ;. 



