ICONES PLANTARUM. 57 



oribus, periantliii utriculo inflato subgloboso, tubo cnrvulo supcme 

 levitor dilatato ore in limbo circulari abrupte ampliato facie pilosulo, 



inCUTYOS 



Hab. Kismayo, South Somali land, Dr Kirk i 



f 



Folia f-1^ poll, longa, basin versus |--i poll. lata. Pedunculi 

 ^1 poll, longi. Bracteoe -|-1 poll, longse, | poll, lat®, Feriantliiunn 

 1^2 poll, longum, limbo circiter 1 poll. lato. — D. Oliver. 



Fig. 1. Column with continuous marginal membrano surroundiug tlio atigma do- 

 curved, 2. Same with the membrane recurved. 3. Sis lobes of stigma from above, 

 surrounded by the upturned marginal membrane. 



Plate 1274. 



ORTHOSIPHON LINEARIS, Benih. 



Labiatj;, Tribe Ocimoide-e. 



0. linearis, Benth. sp. nov., ramis tenuibus ascendentibus v. erectis, 



!•• t '1-1 IT *1 IT X,,lv^ ^«1-r^«« -^l--.^ ^,,-r,1.^ 



an^ruste 



connatis 



longiore saperne a: 



Hab. South Africa, Malabele land, G, G. Oates. 



PlantcB pars inferior deest, ramuli ascendentes suberecti fere fili- 

 formes, glabri v. pilis brevibns raris conspersi. Folia anguatissime 

 linearia, fere subulata, crassiuscula, supra concava, integerrima, pollice 

 breviora, floralia minuta. Verticillastri in summo ramo pauci dis- 

 tantes, 3-6.flori. PedicelU tenues calyce bre\^ores. Calyx patens v. 

 demum nutans, per antbesin tubulosus 1| lin. longus, post anthesm 

 ampliatua ovoldeus, 3 lin. longus, glaber, 10-nervis, dente postico lato 

 obtuso breviter decurrente, inferioribus breviter setaceo-acumlnatls. 

 Corolke tubus rectus, 3 lin. v. paullo longior, basi tenuis, superne postice 



^ urn 



rimum. Stamina lonfnus- 



o 



declinata 



connata, postica libera. Antlierm parvEe, loculis divaricatis confluenti- 

 bus. Stylus apice minute incrassatus. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lower stamens, the upper portion. . ,_ ^ , 

 With the essential characters of Orthosiphon this species differs from the rest of 

 the genus in the very narrow foliage and in the union of the two lower filaments, 

 showing in the latter respect an approach to the genus Syncolost€?7wn.—G. Eextham. 



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