(^Okus] XCVII. LABIATE. 867 



many-flowered, numerous, the lower ones more or less distant the 

 upper ones contiguous ; axillary cymes sessile or subsessile ; pedicels 

 about gin long, shortly pubescent ; flowers purplish, ver<?in- on 

 blue i m. long ; calyx about ^ in. high in flower, I in. long in 

 fruit, spreadnig or turning downwards in fruit ; the tube pubescent • 

 the hmb bilabiate spreading; one lobe broad and larger than the 

 rest, about ^\ in. long in the flower and i in. long in fruit ; throat 

 naked; corolla curved m a sigmoid manner, subglabrous, slightly 

 puberulous outside with short scattered hairs, bilabiate • the lips 

 mgro-punctulate; the larger lip ^ in. long, bent at a right angle 

 at the base concave-conduphcate, enclosing the andrcecium • 

 stamens 4 didynamous ; filaments united at the base into a short 

 tube; style slightly thickened at the apex; nutlets yellowish, 

 glabrous, ovoid, -^^ m. long. *^ ' 



HuiLLA^In herbaceous places close to the banks of the Lopollo 

 stream at Ferrao da Sola ; fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5612 



14. SYMPHOSTEMON Welw. ms. in Herb., gen. nov. 

 Calyx at the time of flowering obliquely campanulate, gibbous 

 at the back of the base, 5K.left, sub-bilabiate, in fruit simewhat 

 increased and usually pendulous; the teeth unequal, the posterior 

 tooth broadly ovate and obtuse or apiculate, the other teeth 

 narrower and acute ; corolla-tube exserted, shortly tubular-funnel- 

 shaped, not sigmoid, a little curved and gibbous at the back near 

 the base; the throat wide, scarcely oblique; the limb bilabiate 

 the posterior lip shortly 4-lobed, the anterior one longer entire 

 boat-shaped and laterally embracing the genital organs ; stamens 4 

 didynamous, declinate, all fertile, falling a little short of the 

 anterior corolla-lip ; filaments widening at the base and united 

 in a short flat lamina inserted on the corolla- throat at the base 

 ot the anterior lip; anthers roundish, the cells confluent; disk 

 fleshy, produced into 4 thick obovoid glands beside the base of the 

 nutlets; ovary 4-partite ; style shortly exceeding the corolla-tube, 

 nearly entire ; stigma emarginate at the apex ; nutlets com- 

 pressed, obovoid. 



A nearly glabrous minutely glandular herb; leaves opposite, 

 sub-opposite, sub-ternate, and sub-alternate ; racemes terminal ' 

 pedicels alternate opposite and sub-ternate, bracteate at or near 

 the base, spreading. 



1. S. insolitus. 



Plectrcmthus insolitus C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiv 

 p. 2/5, t. 6, figs. 7 & 8 (July 1899). 



Perennial, 6 to 12 in. high, very elegant; rootstock tuberous 

 large, fleshy ; stems several, erect or ascending, simple or branched 

 near the base, rigid ; leaves sub-linear, narrowed at both ends 

 herbaceous-green, somewhat rigid, entire or pauci-denticulate' 

 sessile, t to 2 m. long by j-V to i in. broad ; inflorescence 2 to 6 in' 

 long; lower pedicels about A in. long ; bracts ranging up to i in 

 long; flowers i to | in. long, clear blue, glandular; calyx 

 glandular, i to | in. long ; style i in. long. ^ 



