878 xcvii. LABIATE. [Leucas 



oblong, densely hairy outside, strongly fringed, glabrous inside, 

 emarginate at the apex ; lower lip obovate, ^ in. long, trifid, 

 pubescent at the back except the middle lobe ; the middle lobe 

 the largest, bifid ; stamens scarcely equalling the upper lip, rather 

 longer than the style which is unequally bifid at the apex ; 

 nutlets 4, papillose at the apex. 



Benguella. — Among rubbish and in neglected fields, everywhere 

 around the city ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 5501. 



MosSAMEDES. — In neglected plots after cultivation, and around 

 negro-huts, between Quipola and Mata dos Carpenteiros, rather rare ; 

 fl. and fr. June 1859. Also in sandy herbaceous places at the river 

 Bero and in neglected plots ; fl. July 1859. Xo. 5516. 



Bumbo. — In fields atter being planted with Amchis hypogcea L. ; fl. 

 Oct. 1859. Only one specimen. No. 5517. 



6. L. altissima Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. p. 268 (9 Oct. 1888). 

 MossAMEDES. — An erect or ascending, very elegant herb, apparently 



annual or biennial, 2 to 2\ ft. high ; leaves herbaceous-green ; flowers 

 white ; verticils clothed with whitish wool. In sandy thickets at the 

 banks of the river Bero ; fl. July 1859. No. 5484. 



7. L. Eenii Hiern, sp. n. 



An annual, straight, erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, sparingly 

 branched; stem pubescent with short downward hairs, pallid, 

 obtusely tetragonal, sulcate ; internodes mostly longer than the 

 leaves ; leaves lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, narrowed at the 

 apex to an obtuse point, somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile 

 base, firmly herbaceous, somewhat pubescent, green above, a little 

 paler beneath, crenate-serrulate except towards the base, 1 to 2|- 

 in. long by i to 4^ in. broad ; flowers white, \ in. long or rather 

 longer, sessile or subsessile, numerous, crowded in axillary and 

 subterminal verticils ; verticils subglobose, ^ to 1 in. in diameter, 

 sessile, bracteate at the base ; bracts numerous, filiform, subulate, 

 strongly ciliate, | to J in. long, the tip cartilaginous, acute ; calyx 

 4 in. long ; the tube campanulate-oblong, nearly straight, a little 

 narrowed near the base, scarcely contracted at the mouth, \ in. 

 long, 10-nerved, pubescent outside, less conspicuously pubescent 

 inside along the nerves ; the limb slightly bilabiate in flower ; 

 teeth 5, subulate from a broad base, pubescent except the acute 

 cartilaginous apex, the two anterior ones a little longer in flower 

 and less erect than the rest; corolla about \ in. long, thinly 

 pubescent outside, bilabiate; the anterior lip spreading, trifid, 

 i- in. long ; the middle lobe obovate, entire, longer than the 

 lateral lobes; the posterior lip oval-oblong, emarginate at the 

 apex, somewhat spreading, i in. long; tube narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, \ in. long, glabrous below ; the throat not bearded ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted about the middle of the 

 corolla-tube ; style included, hairy above, obsoletely bilobed ; 

 nutlets obpyramidal, truncate, shining. 



MosSAMEDES.— In gravelly thickets at the banks of the river Bero ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5486. 



This belongs to the section Lasiocorys (Benth.); it was also collected 



