394 cii. LABIATE (baker). \^JLolanthvs. 



slender pubescent branchlets. Leaves sessile, thin, subglabrous, oblong 

 or linear-oblong, obtuse, entire or obscurely crenate, the lower 2 in. long. 

 Panicles lax, moderately large; branches very compound; final spikes 

 slender, subsecund, 1-2 in. long; bracts very small. Calyx very small, 

 truncate, pubescent. Corolla pubescent, ^ in. long ; lower lip orbicular, 

 concave, not longer than the upper. Stamens as long as the lower lip. 



Xrile Z>and. British East Africa : Unyoro ; in forests, growing by surface 

 rocks, Speke ^ GranI ! Kavirondo, in dry places, Scott-Elliot, 7117 ! 



20. JR. elongatus, Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 188. An annual, 

 with an erect slender simple finely pubescent stem 1 ft. long, from a 

 decumbent base. Leaves distinctly petioled, small, oblong, obtuse, 

 slightly pubescent, entire or obscurely crenate. Panicle small ; branches 

 simple; spikes lax, 1-1| in. long; bracts lanceolate, minute. Calyx 

 campanulate, -f^ in. long, obscurely bilabiate. Corolla \ in. long ;. 

 lower lip oblong, concave, as long as the tube ; upper shorter. Stamens 

 not longer than the lower lip. 



Zio^irer Guinea. Angola : provinces of Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Weltvitsch, 

 5592 ! 5597, 5598 I 



21. iE. pubescens, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 80. An annual, 

 with branched erect slender stems, 2—3 ft. long, pubescent upwards. 

 Leaves petioled, thin, slightly pubescent, oblong or lanceolate, entire or 

 obscurely crenate, 1-2 in. long. Panicle large, very lax ; branches 

 erecto-patent, compound ; spikes slender, at most 1-1 J in. long ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx yV in. long, obscurely bilabiate, pubescent. Corolla 

 bright blue, -J— J in. long; lower lip oblong, concave, nearly as long as 

 the slender tube, pubescent outside. Stamens not protruded beyond 

 the lower lip. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 489. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Abeokuta, Irvingy 112 ! Niger Territory : near the 

 River Quorra (Niger) at .Jeba, Sorter ! Lower Niger; Mount Patteh, Vogel, 174! 



22. .ffi. Cameronii, Burkill in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiv. 278. 

 Annual. Stems tall, erect, fragile, red-brown, nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, distant, opposite, oblong, 1 in. long, acute, deeply 

 toothed, entire and cuneate at the base, green and nearly glabrous on 

 both surfaces. Cymes spicate, scorpioid, peduncled, forming a very lax 

 ample panicle ; bracts lanceolate, small. Calyx i in. long, tubular, 

 slightly pubescent; teeth minute, deltoid. Corolla lilac; tube rather 

 longer than the calyx, abruptly deflexed ; lips equal, i in. long, the 

 lower deeply saccate. Stamens included. 



IVIozaml). Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron, 18 t 



2o. JEL. tuberosus, Jliern, Cat. Afr. PL Wehc. i. 8(1'.). A peren- 

 nial, with a slender erect square glabrous stem from a decumbent base, 

 which .sends out roots from its nodes. Leaves oblanceolate, firm, sessile, 

 subentire, the lowest 1 in. long, the upper grov;ing gradually smaller. 

 Panicle small, with few distant erecto-patent very slender slightly pubes- 

 cent branches^ spikes lax, the end one 1 in. long ; bracts small, oblong, 



