448 CII. LABIATiE (baker). [Ill/ptis. 



peduncles from the upper nodes. Calyx J in. long ; tube oblong ; teeth 

 subulate, shorter than the tube. Corolla white, dotted with red. — 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 489. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 922 ! Sierra Leone : Kichani on the 

 River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4343 ! and without precise locality, Morson ! 



Also in Tropical America. 



3. H. spicigera, Lam. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii.. 87. Annual. 

 Stem tall, erect, branched, pubescent. Leaves petioled, oblong, with a 

 cuneate base, thin, inciso-crenate, slightly hairy. Whorls many- 

 flowered, forming dense oblong or oblong-cylindric racemose panicles, 

 the end ones 2-4 in. long; pedicels densely hairy; bracts linear. 

 Fruit-calyx J-^- in. long ; tube oblong ; teeth shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla whitish, scarcely longer than the calyx. — Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 489 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 230 ; Briquet in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 62. 



upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 121 ! Gambia, Ingram ! Sierra Leone : 

 Samu District, near Luseniya, Scott-Mliot, 4238 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 

 1282! 



Iffile ILand. Upper Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 514 1 British East Africa : 

 Bongo; Gir, cultivated, Schweinfurth, 2495 ! Madi (Gani), SpeJce <Sf Grant ! 



Iiower Guinea. Congo, Dewevre, 862c. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Mtowa, on Lake Tanganyika, Descamps. 



X^ozamb. Bist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and 

 Karonga, Whyte ! between Songwe River and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 64 ! 



Also in Tropical America and Madagascar. 



Var. (?) CienJcotvskyi, Aschers. in Schweinf. Eeitr. Fl. Aethiop. 122. Dwarf. 

 Stem clothed with rigid deflexed hairs. Leaves ovate-oblong, subacute. Racemose 

 panicles twice as long as in the type or more. 



irile Ijand. Upper Sennar : Fazokl ; near Kassan, CienJcowsJcy. 



4. H. pectinata, Poit. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 127. Annual. 

 Stems erect, branched, pubescent, 4-6 ft. long. Leaves thin, petioled, 

 small, ovate, crenate, pubescent. Cymes compound, forming racemose 

 panicles. Fruit-calyx pubescent, \-\ in. long ; tube- oblong ; villous at 

 the throat inside; teeth small, setaceous. Corolla not longer than the 

 c^lyx.— Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 489 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 186; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 122; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. 139 ; Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 61. Mesosphairum 

 pectinatum, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 525 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 873. 



upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Kukuma, Scarcies River, Scott-Elliot, 

 4667 ! Guinea, Thonning ! Lagos : Abeokuta, Irving ! Ogbomoshi\w, Barter, 3392 ! 

 and without precise locality. Barter, 20180 ! Lower Niger : Iddn, Barter, 941 ! 



Nile Ziand. Upper Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 544 ! Eritrea : Ainsaba Valley, 

 near Keren, Steudner, 1403 ! Abyssinia : on mountains near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 

 634! ]559! British East Africa : Madi, SpeJce Sf Grant, 722! 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Gaboon River, Mann, 1018 ! Lower Congo : in a 

 marsh at Stanley Pool, Hens, 31b ! and without precise locality, Dewevre, 76, 532. 

 Angola, Welwitsch, 5487, 5530 ! 5531 ! 5532 ! 5560, 5561 ! 



