Orthosipho7i.] cii. labiate (baker). 377 



scarcely pubescent. Lower calyx- teeth long, setaceous. Corolla hairy, 

 three times the length of the calyx. 



irile Iiand. Somaliland : Gentr Amaden, Candeo Sf Baudi di J'esme. 



8. HOSIiUNDIA, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 1174. 



Calyx small in the flowering stage, with an oblong tube and 5 

 small teeth, in fruit much larger, berry-like, closed in at the throat. 

 Corolla-tube straight, exserted ; upper lip small ; lower larger, concave. 

 Perfect stamens 2, anticous, declinate ; filaments free, filiform ; anther- 

 cells confluent; posticous stamens represented by two small staminodes. 

 Disk glandular. Style shortly bifid at the apex. Nucules ovoid, punc- 

 tate, included in the dilated calyx. 



Monotypic. Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 



1. H. opposita, Vahl; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 54. A much- 

 branched, erect or sarmentose shrub, reaching a height of 10-15 ft., 

 with slender glabrous or slightly pubescent branchlets. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, crenate at the base, dentate, 

 8-4 in. long, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath. Inflorescence 

 an ample lax deltoid terminal panicle; branchlets pubescent; bracts 

 very small ; pedicels as long as the flower-calyx. Flower-calyx pu- 

 bescent, yV in. long ; teeth deltoid. Corolla lilac, more than twice as 

 long as the calyx. Fruit-calyx globose, red, edible. — P. Beauv. Fl. 

 Owar. i. 52, t. 33 ; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 77. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Skues ! Sierra Leone : in a wood near the Loma burn, 

 Scott-Elliot^ 502 L ! French Guinea: Farana, on the River Niger, Scott-Elliot, 

 5322! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 41 Aqnapim (Acropong) Mountains, 

 Tkonning. Ashanti : Assin-yan-Coomassio, Cummivs, 144! Togoland : Alnfanxo. 

 Krause ! Lagos : Abeokuta, Rowland ! Lower Niger : Aboh, Barter, 298 ! Oware, 

 Beauvois. Cauieroons : Cameroon Monntain, 1000-2000 ft., Mann, 1252 ! Yaunde, 

 2500 ft., Zenker ^ Staudt, 83 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 264 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Portuguese Congo : Malemba, near Landana, Phillips I 

 Angola: Ambriz, Monteiro ! 



Var. verticillata, Baker. Leaves terriatc. — S. verficillata, Veih\; Eenth. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 41 ! Lagos, Barter, 3323 ! Niger Territory ; 

 Nupe, Barter, 1729 ! 



xrile Xiand. British East Africa : Jnr ; Jur Ghattas. Schweinfurth, 1798 ! 



iMO'weT Guinea. Congo, Smith ! Dewivre, 942. 



Var. decumbens. Baker. Stem and leaves more hairy than in the t\pe, inflores- 

 cence less compound, flower-calyx larger with an oblong tube. — H. decumbens, Henth. 

 in DC. Prod. xii. 54. Orthosiphoyi physocalycinus, A. Rich. Tent, Fl. Abyss, ii. 180. 



Xrile Ziand. Eritrea : Ginda, 3000 ft., SchweinfuHh ^ Siva, 2200 ! Keren, 

 4500 ft., 5eccari, 165 ! AhyBs\ma, Schimper, 96 I Quartin- Dillon Sf Petit ! British 

 East Africa : Nner district, by the Ghazal River, Schweinfurth, 1171 ! Uganda, 

 Wilson, 93 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola, Welicitsch, 5672 ! 5673 ! 



nSozamb. Blat. Zanzibar, Bojer ! Speke, 8 1 German East Africa : Urtm- 

 bara ; Nderema, Hoist, 2240! Kilimanjaro, at Marnngu, 4800 ft., Volkent, Ibl \ 



