Solenostemon] xcvii. labiate. 865 



quickly falling off in the course of drying ; petiole J to 1 in. long ; 

 flowers snow-white, about i in. long, clustered several together 

 on pubescent pedicels of |- to 4 in. long, in subsessile or shortly 

 stalked crowded cymes, arranged in oblong terminal and sub- 

 terminal thyrsoid snow-white panicles 2^ to 12 in. long; calyx 

 hairy outside, glabrous inside, openly campanulate, ^ in. long in 

 flower, f in. long in fruit, unequally 5-cleft ; four of the lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate, -^^ to Jq in. long ; the fifth lobe oval, i in. 

 long ; corolla sigmoidly curved ; the tube twice bent, J^ in. high ; 

 the limb minutely glandular outside, the longer lip covering the 

 androecium ; stamens 4, didynamous ; the filaments united at 

 the base into a short tube slit down one side ; style long, exserted, 

 bifid at the apex, the branches short and narrow ; ripe nutlets 

 nearly black. 



Bumbo. — In the wooded more elevated parts of Serra da Xella by 

 streams, above Cbao de Xella, very rare; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 5619, and Coll. Carp. 858. 



12. NEOMtiLLERA Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 186 

 (21 Aug. 1894). 



1. N. Welwitschii Briq., I.e., t. 3. fig. B. 



iV^. aiigolensis Briq. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 363 

 (1897). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; 

 stem juicy, acutely quadrangular, with the angles feebly winged ; 

 leaves not scented ; petioles deeply channelled, acutely keeled ; flowers 

 pleasantly fragrant, very beautifully blue ; calyx 5-toothed, the top- 

 most tooth much larger and longer than the rest ; upper corolla-lip 

 shortly bilobed, the lobes obtusely unidentate on the outer side ; 

 stamens 4, all fertile, the filaments strictly monadelphous from the 

 base to the middle, the anthers dehiscing transversely, the cells con- 

 fluent ; nutlets obovoid, somewhat compressed, quite naked. In the 

 bushy wooded parts of Mata de Pungo in the praesidium, plentiful ; 

 fl. 14 April 1857. No. 5544. 



13. COLEUS Lour. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1176. 



1. C. Welwitschii Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 185 (1894), 

 and in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 361 (1897). 



Pungo Andongo. — A suffruticose herb or a somewhat thickly fleshy 

 brittle shrublet* ; stems ascending, blood-red, 2 to 4 ft. high ; leaves 

 membranous, somewhat fleshy and viscid, deep green, densely hairy 

 beneath ; flowers purple or deep or clear blue ; calyx-teeth 4, the 

 lower one shortly bilobed at the apex, the lobes acute. In rocky 

 thickets throughout the district, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857 ; fl. 

 April 1857 ; by the elevated rocks of Pedra Cabonda in the prsesidium, 

 fl. May 1857. Nos. 5589, 5585. 



Aspect of Plectranthus hirtus Benth. 



2. C. amboinicus Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 372 (1790). 



Var. violaceus Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 210 (21 Aug. 

 1894). 



LoANDA. — A decumbent or ascending undershrub, with somewhat 

 erect branches ; stem and leaves clothed with long and short hairs 



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