Orihosiphon?^ cii. labiate (baker). 375 



green beneath, glabrescent or pilose. Raceme lax, 2-8 in. long; whorls 

 O-flovvered ; bracts small, lanceolate; pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx 

 very variable in size, ^-^ in. long; tube campanulate, pilose; upper 

 tooth ovate, lower subulate. Corolla white, protruding \ in, from the 

 throat of the calyx ; lips small. Stamens slightly exserted. — De Wild. k. 

 Durand, 111. Fl. Congo, i. t. 37. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: Mossanze, Descampa ; Mtowa, on Lake 

 Tiiiigaiivika, Descamps. 



38. O. schinzianusy Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 173. An erect 

 annual, with a simple erect densely pubescent stem. Leaves subsessile, 

 2-3 in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, dentate, green and slightly 

 pubescent above, grey and densely pubescent beneath. Raceme siiort, 

 lax in the lower half; axis densely pubescent; upper bracts ovate, 

 purple, persistent, very pubescent ; pedicels J in. long. Calyx densely 

 pubescent, yV-;^ in. long; upper tooth ovate, the others lanceolate. 

 Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; lips small. Stamens distinctly 

 exserted. 



liO^irer Guinea. German South-West Africa : Ambolaml ; Osliiliekf, Schinz, 

 45! 



Very near O. hracteosus, Haker. 



39. O. bracteosus. Baker. Annual. Stems slender, branched, 

 hairy, erect, 1-3 ft. long. Leaves lanceolate, serrate, 2-C in. long, 

 sessile or shortly petioled, hairy on both sides. Racemes long, lax ; 

 flowers 4-() in a whorl ; rhachis hairy ; pedicels short ; upper bract 

 large, ovate, reddish, membranous, persistent. Calyx finally \ in. long; 

 upper tooth orbicular, shorter than the tube ; lower with large cusps. 

 Corolla-tube half as long again as the calyx. Stamens much exserted.. — 

 Ocimum hracteosum^ Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 41 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 

 455 ; Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 122 ; Vatke in Lmna^a, xl. 177 ; 

 Hemizygia hracteosa, Briquet in Ann. Jard. Gen. ii. (1S1)8) 248. 



Upper Gruinea. Senegal : sandy soil at Maliina, Leeard, 174. 219 (cx Briqutt) ; 

 and witlionL precise locality, Heudelot, 396 ! Niger TerritorN : Nupe, coiumor, 

 Barter, 946 ! 



AXozamb. X>i8t. German East Africa : Usambara ; Duga, Hoht, 3189 1 

 Portuguese East Africa : near Lupata, Kirk ! Rios de Sena and Boios, and n»ar Tete, 

 Peters (ex Vatke). Britislj Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Namasi, Camerun, 38 1 

 Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Shire Higlilands, Buchanan, 74! 



40. O. Marquesii, Briquet in Arm. Jard. Uen. ii. (l^i^^) 242. An 

 undershrub, with hairy, often violet branches. Leaves shortly petioled, 

 round-ovate, 1 in. long, obtuse, pubescent and green on botli surfaces, 

 slightly rugose beneath, crenate. Whorls simple, (Utlowered, forming 

 long racemes ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; lower bracts deciduous ; 

 upper large, round-ovate, violet, forming a persistent couia. Flower- 

 calyx J-J in. long, densely pibse at the base, glabrescent upwards; 

 upper tooth small, ovate, lower teeth setaceous. Corolla violet, protruded 

 4 in, from the throat of the calyx , tube shortly exserted. Stamens 



