:}54 (11. LABiAT.t (baketi). [Moschosma. 



-). M. multiflorum, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 49. Perennial, 

 suffruticose. Stems densely pubescent. Leaves petioled, cordate- 

 ovate, membranous, deeply crenate, o-G in. long, pubescent on both 

 sides. Flowers subunisexual, forming a lax panicle often 1 ft. long, 

 about ] 2 in a whorl ; staminate whorls less dense than the pistillate ; 

 bracts minute ; rhachis densely hairy. Calyx hairy, h lin. long ; teeth 

 small, subequal, ovate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. — A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 179; Giirke in Engl. PE. Ost-Afr. C. 340. 

 Plectranthxs mtdti/fonis, Hochst. ex Benth. I.e. 



Nile liand. Abyssinia : between Sana and Ferrefera, Schimper, 776 ; near 

 .Telejeranne, Schimj)er,\Q>^^ \ Sbire, Qtiartin-Dillon ^ Petit, 9 ! and without precise 

 locality, ScJtimper^ 68G I Parkyns ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Masheua, Hoist, 8720 ! 



4. M. riparium, llocJist. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 49. Shrubby, 

 reaching a height' of 10-12 ft. Stems densely hairy. Leaves petioled, 

 cordate-ovate, deeply crenate, membranous, 8-G in. long, more or less 

 hairy on both sides. Flowers subunisexual, many in a whorl, forming 

 dense panicles 1 ft. or more long ; rhachides hairy ; pistillate flowers 

 forming much more dense spikes than the staminate. Calyx h Hn. 

 long ; teeth small, ovate. Corolla \ in. long in the staminate flowers, 

 smaller in the pistillate. — J/, myriostachyum, Benth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 

 117:5. 



Nile Iiand. British East Africa : among: dry volcanic rocks in an empty valley 

 near Lake Nakuro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6801 ! Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., Scott- 

 Elliot, 7879 ! 



Xfower Guinea. Angola, Welivitsch, 5477 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Lower Plateau, north of Lake Xyasa, 

 Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa : Morarabala Mountain, Waller ! British Central 

 Africa : Xyasaland ; near the Murchison Fall?, Meller ! near Blantyre, Buchanan, 

 159! Last! banks of a stream betwen Blantyre and Matope, Scott! Mount Chirad- 

 zulu, 4000 ft., Whyte ! Meller! Masuka * Plateau, G500-7000 ft., Whyte, 300! 

 Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte! 



Also Xatal. Doubtfully distinct from M. muUiJiorum. 



G. ACROCEPHALXJS, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, ii. 1173. 



Calyx-tube long, compressed, gibbous at the base ; limb bilabiate 

 upper lip entire or denticulate ; lower entire, emarginate or 4-toothed 

 Corolla small ; tube short ; limb bilabiate ; upper lip shortly 4-lobed 

 lower scarcely longer, entire, nearly flat. Stamens 4, didynamous 

 declinate, scarcely exserted ; filaments free, filiform, not appendiculate : 

 anthers 1 -celled. Disk a small anticous gland. Style shortly bifid at 

 the stigmatose tip. Nucules ovoid or oblong, smooth. — -Perennial or 

 annual herbs. Leaves opposite or congested into whorls, sessile or 

 petioled, usually linear or lanceolate. Whorls of flowers congested into 

 dense globose heads, which are bracteate at the base, often by coloured 



