466 cii. LABIAT.B (baker). [Stockys. 



obtuse. — Annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs. Leaves sessile 

 or petioled, entire or toothed. Whorls axillary or crowded into 

 terminal racemose panicles. Flowers small or medium-sized, various in 

 colour. 



Species about 200, cosmopolitan, concentrated in the Temperate regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



•Eu-stachts. — Herbaceous. 



Stems trailing, prickly 1. S. aculeolata. 



Stems erect, not prickly. 



Leaves lanceolate . . . . . . 2. iS". pseud onigricans. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate . . . . . 3. 5. huillensis. 



Leaves oblong . . . . . . . ^. S. nemorivaga. 



Leaves ovate-oblong . . . . . . 5. 5. andongenais. 



Leaves ovate . . . . . . . %. S. cethiopica. 



**Ambleia. — Shrubby. 

 Calyx-teeth deltoid. 



Leaves entire . . . . . . . 7. S. palcBstina. 



Leaves crenate . . . . . . . 8. <S. Hildehrandtii. 



Calyx-teeth lanceolate . . . . . . 9. /S. hizensis. 



1 . S. aculeolata, Hook.f. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vi. 18, and vii 218. 

 A perennial, with very slender trailing stems, muricated with reflexed 

 prickles. Leaves distant, distinctly petioled, cordate- ovate, conspicuously 

 crenate, pubescent on both sides, the largest 1 in. long. Whorls few, 

 distant, the lower subtended by reduced leaves. Calyx J in. long ; teeth 

 ovate-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. Corolla pinkish -white, J in. 

 long ; lower lip as long as the tube ; upper shorter. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 809. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 8000 ft., Johnston, 71 ! 

 Fernando Po : Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., Mann, 319 ! 



larile Kand. Abyssinia : Shoa : Ankober, Both, 520 ! 



2. S. pseudonigricanSy Gurke in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 315. A 

 perennial herb, with erect pubescent branched stems about 3 ft. long. 

 Leaves distant, sessile, thin, lanceolate, obscurely crenate, slightly 

 hairy on both sides, narrowed to the base, the largest 2-3 in. long. 

 Whorls many, distant, 6-flowered, the lower subtended by large leaves ; 

 pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx pubescent, J in. long ; teeth deltoid, 

 subecjual, not mucronate, shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube as long 

 as the calyx ; lower lip J in. long. 



Moxamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyjisaland ; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 28! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1 ! 



3. S. huillensiSy Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 875. A peren- 

 nial herb, with numerous erect sparingly branched hoary stems 1-2 ft. 

 long, from a woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 

 2—8 in. long, membranous, acute, crenate, cuneate or slightly rounded 

 at the base, dark green and slightly hairy above, paler and more hairy 

 beneath. Whorls 4-5, only the lowest subtended by short leaves; 



