J^olanthus.'] cii. labiat.*: (haker). 391 



5. JE. abyssinicus, lfocliHt.\ Benth. in DC Prod. xii. HO. A 

 perennial, with long thick fusiform roots and short tufted slender 

 glabrous stems ascending from a decumbent base. J^eaves lanceolate, 

 sessile, glabrous, moderately firm, 1-U in. long, entire or obscurely 

 serrate. Panicle small, lax; lower branch-bracts foliaceous ; spikes 

 short; lateral shortly peduncled ; liower-bracts oblong, foliaceous, J in. 

 long. Calyx J in. long, obscurely lobed. Corolla J-.\ in. long ; lower 

 lip orbicular, as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the lower lip. — 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 185 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. :^(;2. 



wile Iiand. Abyssinia :' Mount 8hoata, 7000-8000 ft., tSchimper, 1355! and 

 witliout precise iocaliu, Schimper, 562 I 



(*». JEi, Stuhlmannii, Gilrke in Engl. Pji. Ost-AJr. ('. :\\:k A 

 much-branched undershrub, with glabrous stem and branchlets. Leaves 

 sessile, quite glabrous, rather fleshy ; lower bipinnatifid, with linear- 

 lanceolate lobes ; upper simply pinnatifid or linear-lanceolate, entire. 

 Cymes foiming a terminal spike ; flowers sessile ; bracts round or 

 broadly ovate, subvillous, rather longer than the calyx, deciduous. 

 Calyx campanulate, circumscissile below the middle, truncate, sub- 

 villous outside in the upper part. Corolla-tube narrow ; upper lip 

 nearly entire ; lower with 4 round lobes. Stamens and style exserted. 



XVIozamb. Slst. German East Africa : in the region south of the Victoria 

 Nyanza at Mwanza and in the Usiha district, Stuhlmann, 4204, 4658. 



7. JG, Holstii, Gilrke in Enyl. Jahrh. xix. 221. Stem branched, 

 pubescent, 8-1) in. long. Lower leaves shortly petioled, upper subsessile, 

 all oblong or oblong-lanceolate, under 1 in. long, obscurely and irregu- 

 larly toothed, narrowed to the base, sparsely pubescent above, dotted 

 with black glands beneath. Bracts lanceolate, sessile, subacute, pilose, 

 |-^ in. long; flowers sessile. Calyx cylindrical, pubescent, -j^-J in. 

 long ; upper tooth deltoid ; lateral lanceolate-deltoid ; lower round- 

 ovate, connate. Corolla J- J in. long; tube broad, deflexed at the base; 

 upper lip 4- toothed, lower cymbiform. 



Mozaznb. Blst. German East Africa : Usambara : ner.r Mhilo, i/c'-v^ 421 . 



8. iE. ukamensis, Gilrke in Enyl. Jahrh. xxii. 147. Stem and 

 branches pubescent or subglabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate- 

 lanceolate, \\ in. long, entire or obscurely crenate, rather fleshy, pul)es- 

 cent on both' surfaces. Cymes lax ; branches long, flexuosp, pubescent, 

 often curved at the tip ; flowers remote, sessile ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, pubescent. Fruit-calyx J- J in. long, longer than the bract, 

 tubular, curved, pubescent, truncate. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ukame ; Gwale, 6000 ft., .S7i//*/m</«». 

 81G0. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands. Buchanan. SUIa 



1». m. rivularis, Hlern in Cat. Afr. PL Wehr. i. h(ili. An 

 annual succulent subglabrous herb, with prostrate stems 4-1) in. long, 

 divaricately branched in the lower part. Leaves ovate or elliptical, 

 j-l in. long, subobtuse, narrowed to the base, the lower >hortly petioled. 



