874 xcvii. LABIATE. [Origanum 



20. ORIGANUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. S^ Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii 

 p. 1185. 



1. 0. Majorana L. Sp. PI, edit. 1, p. 590 (1753). 



LOANDA.— A suffruticose herb, very pleasantly aromatic, U to 2 ft. 

 high, hoary-pubescent on all parts including the branches except the 

 white corolla ; calyx turbinate, in front cleft to the base. Cultivated 

 in gardens but rather rarely : at the quintal of Dr. Mendes Alfonso • 

 fl. 17 Oct. 1858. No. 5559. 



21.CLIN0P0DIUM Tournef., L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 587 (1753). 



Ccdcunintha Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. p. 393 (1778); Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 1190; non Adans. (1763). 



1. C. Calamintha O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 515 (1891). 



Melissa Calamintha L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 593 (1753). Cala- 

 mintha officinalis Moench, Meth. PI. p. 409 (1794); Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. p. 228 (1848). 



Yar. villosissimum (Benth., I.e. ; Lowe, Prim. Mad., app. C, 

 p. xi [1851]). 



Island of Madeira.— At Camara dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. 12 Autr. 

 1853. No. 5539. 



22. SALVIA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1194. 



1. S. pseudococcinea Jacq. Collect, ii. p. 302 (1788). 



Island of Madeira. — Woody and branched near the base ; flowers 

 scarlet. Excursion to Camara dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. 12 Aug. 1853. 

 No. 5540. 



23. ACHYROSPERMUM Blume ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 1208. 



1. A. aethiopicum Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 56 (1869). 



PuNfio Andongo. — A perennial, erect herb, 5 to 7 ft. high ; stem 

 sparingly branched, obtusely tetragonal, giving off from the middle to 

 the apex in the axils of the leaves solitary spikes of flowers ; spikes 

 tetragonal-pyramidal, Ii to 2\ in. long : calyx white, elongate-cam- 

 panulate, tubular, dilated towards the limb, 5-toothed, sub-bilabiate, 

 the three teeth of the upper lip a little larger than the two of the 

 lower lip, all acute ; corolla white, tubular ; the tube straight, closed 

 at its middle with 5 scales directed downwards; the limb 5-cleft, 

 bilabiate ; the upper lip shortly or slightly bilobed ; the lower lip 

 trifid, the middle lobe very broad, the segments obtuse ; stamens 4, 

 didynamous, sub-exserted or sometimes quite exserted, inserted at the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments sub-compressed, short ; anthers 

 bilocular or by confluence unilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; style 

 filiform ; stigma bilobed ; the lobes cylindrical, short, equal ; nutlets 

 crowned at the apex with very numerous closely inter woven membranous 

 whitish scales resembling a pappus. In the shady forest at a cataract 

 in the rocky Calundo valley, near the prassidium, sporadic and rather 

 rare ; fl. 6 May, half -ripe fr. 18 May 1857. No. 1633. 



24. STACHYS Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1208. 

 1. S. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 

 A perennial herb ; stems numerous, 4 ft. high, branched, densely 



