450 cii. LABiATyE (baker). [Lavandula. 



2. L. pubescens, />-?csne. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 147. An erect 

 much-bianched perennial herb, with slender square hairy stems. Leaves 

 broad, bipiniiatidd, with linear segments. Panicles long, slender ; whorls 

 2- flowered ; bracts ovate, J in. long ; upper not dilated and mem- 

 branous. Calyx as long as the bract ; teeth all small, deltoid. Corolla- 

 tube a little longer than the calyx ; limb very small. — Engl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 863. 



M"ile Xiand. Sonouliland : Ahl ATountaiiis, 6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 854. 

 Also in Arabia and Upper Egypt. 



3. L. coronopifolia, Poir.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 147. An 

 erect much -branched perennial herb, with slender square glabrous 

 branchlets. Leaves sessile, cut down to a narrowly- winged rhachis ; 

 segments erecto-patent, linear with revolute edges, simple or pinnatifid. 

 Panicles slender, cvlindric, 2-3 in. long, lax downwards ; bracts rigid, 

 ovate-lanceolate, tne lower as long as the calyx ; upper not dilated. 

 Calyx pubescent, J in. long ; teeth equal, lanceolate. Corolla blue, 

 twice as long as the calyx-tube. 



XSrile Xiand. Harnish Island, Slade ! Nubia : Hor Tamanib, near Suakin, 

 Lord ! Erkowit Mountain, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 246 ! Coast-land, Bent ! 

 Eriticil : Geleb, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth, 1076 ! 



Also in Western Asia southward to Arabia, Northern Africa and the Cape Verdes. 



22. EIiSHOLTZIA, Willd. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 

 Plant, u. 1181. 



Calyx-tube straight, ovoid or campaniilate, dilated in fruit ; teeth 5, 

 unequal. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb with 5 short slightly unequal 

 rounded lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate ; filaments free, 

 naked ; anther-cells often confluent. Style bifid at the apex. Nucules 

 ovoid or oblong, smooth or rugose. — Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 petioled, crenate. Whorls many-flowered, forming dense or slender 

 spicate panicles ; bracts persistent. Corolla small. 



Species about 20, mostly Asiatic, mainly Indian. 



Leaves cordate-ovate, obtuse . , . 1, E. Carsonii. 



Leaves ovate, acute . . . . . . 2. E. Schimperi. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate . . . . . 3. E. aquatica. 



1. E. Carsonii, Baker. A perennial herb, with long trailing 

 pubescent stems, leafless in the upper half. Leaves cordate-ovate, 

 2-3 in. long, obtuse, deeply crenate, green and pubescent on both sur- 

 faces ; petiole long, winged upwards. Whorls of flowers forming dense 

 oblong terminal long-peduncled racemose panicles; bracts foliaceous 

 ovate-cuspidate ; pedicels short. Calyx densely pubescent, \ in. long ; 

 tube companulate ; teeth deltoid, unequal, shorter than the tube, the 

 uppermost largest. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. 



Mozamb. BlBt. British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, south of Lake 

 Tanganyika, Carson ! 



