446 cii. LABiATiG (baker). [Capitant/a. 



long as the lower lip of the corolla ; tilaments united towards the base ; 

 anthers oblong, with parallel cells ; style shortly bifid at the apex ; lobes 

 spreading. Nucules ovoid, smooth. 

 Kudeinic. Monotvpic. 



1. C. otostegioides, Gurke in Eng. Jahrh. xxi. lOG. A low fleshy 

 underahrub, clothed with grey pubescence, with decumbent main stems 

 and ascending flowering branches. Stem-leaves in distant pairs, obovate- 

 cuneate, shortly petioled, obtuse, crenate, about 1 in. long, fleshy, clothed 

 with grey pubescence on both surfaces. Whorls 6-flowered, aggregated 

 in a lax terminal racemose panicle 3-4 in. long ; pedicels as long as the 

 flower-calyx ; bracts minute. Calyx in the flowering stage \ in., finally 

 i in. long and broad. Corolla more than twice as long as the flowering 

 calyx. 



MTlle ]Land. Abyssinia : near Qualamat in the Upper Lebka Valley, 2000- 

 5S00 ft.j Muller-Frosko-Capitani/, Heuglin. Somaliland : without precise locality, 

 Qhika. 



Mozamb* Blst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro Region : in tne Steppe 

 between Ugweno Mountain and the Papyrus swamp, 2300 ft., Volkens^ 492. 



19. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 1177. 



Calyx-tube campanulate ; upper tooth large, oblong, concave, de- 

 flexed ; 4 lower teeth very short. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, 

 deflexed at the middle, with a funnel-shaped throat ; limb bilabiate ; 

 upper lip short ; lower much longer, incurved, deeply concave. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, deflexed ; filaments filiform, shortly connate at the base 

 in the African species ; anther-cells confluent. Disk glandular. Style 

 shortly bifid. Nucules ovoid, smooth. — Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 sometimes fleshy. Whorls aggregated into dense spicate panicles. 

 Flowers small. 



Species about 15, all but one East Indian. "^v 



1. A. africanns. Baker ex Scott-EUiot in Joum. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 94. A perennial herb 4 ft. high, with erect stems and densely shortly 

 pubescent branches. Leaves distant, nearly sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 

 crenate, subcoriaceous, subscabroiis above, densely pubescent with raised 

 veinlets beneath, the lower 4-5 in. long. Panicles very dense, sparingly 

 branched, peduncled, cylindric, the end one 3-4 in. long; pedicels 

 obsolete. Fruit-calyx J in. long ; upper tooth oblong, concave, deflexed, 

 much longer than the tube ; 4 lower teeth suborbicular. Corolla J in. 

 long. Stamens shortly connate at the base. — Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxvii. 65. A. Engleri, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 190. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near the Loma bum, on alluvial soil, Scott- 

 Elliot, 5033 ! 



ILower Cnlneai Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, HenSy b86. 



Soutli Central. Congo Free State : on the banks of the Upper Lulua River, 

 Pogge, 372 ; between Nyangwe and Kimbundu Mountains, Pogge, 1019. 



