Moschosma.] cii. labiat.^^. (maker). 353 



Species 6, spread through llie tropical regions of the Old World. 



Annual. Cal.vx-teeth unequal . . . . I. M. polyxtachtfum 



Perennial. Calyx-teeth subequal. 



Racemes very slender 2. M. vrddfulium. 



Racemes not very slender. 



Pedicels always very short 3. 3/. muUiJlorum. 



Pedicels of stamiuate flowers often as long as the 



^^^y^ • • • • . . . . 4. J/, ripariuvi. 



1. M. polystachyum, Benth. ; DC. Prod. xii. 4s. Annual. 

 Stems much branched, slender, tetragonous, obscurely pubescent, 

 1-2 ft. long. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, crenate, membranous, 

 slightly pubescent. Whorls 6-10-flowered, forming copious lax racemes 

 2-4 in. long; pedicels short; bracts minute. Calyx j^.,-J in. long; 

 tube campanulate ; upper tooth orbicular, obtuse ; lateral' teeth ovate ; 

 lower teeth cuspidate. Corolla pale lilac. — Benth. in Hook. Ni^^er 

 Fl. 488; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 18G ; Durand c^- De WUd. 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 82; Britten in Gregory, Great Rift 

 Valley, 39G ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 612. M. dimidiatum, Benth. 

 in DC. Prod. xii. 48. Basilicum j)olystachion, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 

 14?) ; Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 123. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, J'Aowmw^. Cape Coast Castle, To^e^ .' Lagos: ne.ir 

 Lagos, Rowland I Niger Territory; Nupe, Barter, 1167 ! 



mie Iband. Sennar, Koischy, 140! 219 ! Kordofan : in dried mud on Arash- 

 kol Mountain, Kotschti,lQ^\ British East Africa : White Nile ; Pefherick ! Speke S^- 

 Grant ' Schweinfnrth, 989 ! Sabatier. Ribe ; near Mombasa, Wakefield ! Kau and 

 Lake Dumi in the Tana Valley, Gregory. 



Xiower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Lower Congo; Sicia, Dupuls, 43, 

 Dewevre, 184. Angola, Welwitsch, 5547 ! 5582 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; by the Kibali River, Schicein- 

 furth, 3543! Upper Congo: Massange, De Beerst, 84. Uvira, De Beerst, 45. 

 Mtowa, Descamps. 



AXozatab. 3>lst. Zanzibar, Bojer ! German East Africa : Zanguehar, Kirk, 97 ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Elephant Marsh, by the River Shire. Kirk .' 

 Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Chiradzuiu, 4000 ft., Whyte ! 



Also in the Mascarene Islands, and through Tropical Asia and North Australia. 

 Briquet in Engl. & Prantl., Nat, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, 368, gives names to several 

 varieties of this polymorphous species. 



2. M. urticifoliuniy Baher. Perennial. Stem slightly pubescent. 

 Leaves long-petioled, ovate, membranous, deeply and irregularly crenate, 

 3-4 in. long, slightly pubescent on both sides. Flowers many in a 

 whorl, forming a lax panicle 1 ft. or more long, with compound 

 branchlets; bracts nf\inute ; rhachides densely clothed with white 

 tomentum. Calyx densely tomentose, ^ lin. long; tube campanulate; 

 teeth subequal, ovate, finally as long as the tube. Corolla twice as long 

 as the calyx. 



IMEozamb. X>ist. German East Africa : Mount Kilimanjaro, GOOO ft., Joh.iston ! 



