Culeus.] cii. LABIATE (baker). 43i) 



compound ; pedicels reaching J in. long. Flower-calyx pubescent, J in. 

 long ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube ; lateral teeth oblong, as 

 long as the upper ; lower short, linear. Corolla J in. long ; lower lip 

 as long as the tube. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 866. 

 Iwow^er tiruiuea. Angola : province of Huilla, Welwitsch, 5612 ! 



54. C. alpinus, Vatke in Liiiiioia^ xxxvii. 322. Stem 3 ft. long, 

 herbaceous, erect, shortly pubescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, 

 crenate, 3-4 in. long, truncate at the base. Inflorescence racemose, 

 dense upwards ; cymes shortly peduncled ; pedicels as long as the fruit- 

 calyx. Calyx with an ovate upper tooth ; lower teeth short, lanceolate. 

 Corolla 5 times the length of the calyx. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 361. 



irile ^axid. Abyssinia : Begenieder ; on mountains at Edda Jesus, near Debra 

 Tabor, 9000 ft., Schimper. 



55. C. Autraniy Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boies, ii. 129. An erect 

 herb, with long simple stems, obscurely pubescent upwards. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, acute, crenate, membranous, 3-4 in. long, slightly hairy. 

 Inflorescence racemose, long, dense upwards, lax in the lower half; 

 whorls many-flowered, dense, sessile, slightly compound ; pedicels \ in. 

 long. Flower-calyx pubescent, J in. long ; upper tooth ovate ; lower 

 teeth short, broad. Corolla J in. long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 



Xffile Stand. Abyssinia : without precise locality, Schimper, 693 of 1853 col- 

 lection ! 



56. C. Scliweinrarthii) Vatke in Linncea, xxxvii. 323 in oba. 

 Nearly allied to G. latifoliiis, from which it difiers by its creeping root- 

 stock, in its leaves round-ovate, deeply crenate, truncate at the base, and 

 in its densely softly villoso-lanate and longer pedicels. — Engl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 361. 



Wrile l^and. Eritrea : Habab ; on basaltic hills, 4500-7000 ft., Eiidehrandt, 

 -i38. Abyssinia : Bellaka, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper. 



57. C. repeus, Gierke in Engl. Jnhrh. xix. 213. Stems creeping 

 at the base, rooting at the nodes, pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, 

 membranous, suborbicular, J-1 in. long and broad, rounded or narrowed 

 to the base, obtuse, deeply crenate, subglabrous or with a few adpressed 

 hairs on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, very short ; whorls remote, 

 4-6-flowered ; cymes shortly stalked ; bracts ovate, subacute; pedicels 

 \-\ in. long, pubescent like the calyx. Calyx naked inside at the 

 throat, above J in. long in fruit ; upper tooth broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 its edges not decurrent ; lateral teeth shorter, oblong, subacute ; lower 

 very long, subulate; connate downwards. Corolla whitish, with a 

 purple lower lip. 



Vpper dttinea. Cameroons : in forest near Buea, 4000 ft., Preuss, 949. 



58. C. nyikensiSy Baker. A much-branched erect low under- 

 shrub, with pubescent woody branches. Leaves contemporary with the 

 flowers, shortly petioled, very small, ovate, obtuse, entire, not cordate 



