Lippia.] CI. VERBENACEiE (baker). 281 



ITile X.and. Ab^-ssiiiia: in valleys on the sides of mountains, Schimper,7S^l 

 1079 ! Mitigouagoua, Quarfin-Dillon ! and witliout precise locality, Schimper, 42 ! 

 Plowden! British East Africa: Bongo; Kulungo, Schweinfurth, 2(587 ! Achlai, 

 SchweinfMrth, 2230! Moru District ; Neangara, Petherick ! Unvoro, Speke &■ Grant ! 

 Uganda. Wilson, 130 ! 



Xiower G-uinea. Congo, Smith! Burton! Lower Congo; Hingihi, Dvpuifi, 

 Loango, Soyaux, 67 ! Angola, Welwitsch, 5627 ! 5690 ! 5741 ! Monttiro ! 

 Johnston ! 



Native name in Sierra Leone '' Fetfettis." 



7. L. ? ukambensis^ Vatkein Liiimna, xliii. r)2H. An undershiub, 

 with hispid branchlets,. villous upwards. Leaves opposite, shortly 

 petioled, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the base, crenate, 

 hispid on both sides, reaching a length of 2 in. Heads solitaiv, shortlv 

 peduncled, subglobose, finally oblong, h in. long; bracts oblong, acumi- 

 nate, longer than the corolla-tube. 



Nile Iiand. British East Africa: Ukamba : Kitui, Hildehrandt^ 2739, 



8. Ij. Burtonii, Baker. An undershrub, with slightly bristly 

 slender woody branchlets. Leaves in threes, sessile, oblong, crenate, 

 rugose like those of L. asperifolia, scabrous above, densely pubescent, 

 with raised veins beneath. Heads many from a node, very shortly 

 peduncled, globose, J in. diam. ; bracts ovate, acuminate, very hairy, 

 ^-J in. long. Corolla not longer than the bract. 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Burton ! 



9. Ij. plicata, ^«A;er. Branches woody, densely pubescent. Leaves 

 opposite, shortly petioled, ovate, l|-2 in. long, green on both surfaces, 

 plicate, crenate, very scabrous above, densely pubescent beneath. 

 Heads forming a terminal panicle, oblong, 1-H in. long, above h in. 

 diam. ; bracts ovate, acute, green, densely pubescent, J in. long. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, above ^ in. long; lobes of the limb small, 

 orbicular. 



nzozamb. I>ist. British Central Africa : Urungu ; F\vamI)o, Carson, 81 

 128! 



4. BOUCHEA, Cham. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. ii. 1 144. 



Calyx cylindrical, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, finally splitting down one side 

 to the base. Corolla-tube long, slender, cylindrical; limb patent, 

 oblique, with 5 short broad lobes. Stamens 4, didynamou.s, included in 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments short : anther-cells parallel. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules usually solitary, erect from the base of the cells ; style long, 

 subulate ; stigma capitate, bilobed. Fruit dry, included in tlie calyx- 

 tube, oblong, separating into two pyrenes. Seed linear, exalbuminoiis. 

 — Perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, sessile or petioled. 



