Leitcas.] cii. lauiata: (kaker). 485 



lanceolate, 7 lower deltoid, all inucronate. Corolla nearly 1 in. long ; 

 upper lip only villous. 



nXozamb. Dist. (Jennaii East Africa : Ukwere district, in Usaramo, Stuhl- 

 mann, 8412. Britisli Central Africa ; Nyasaland : Fort Hill, Tanganyika Plateau, 

 4500 ft., Whyte! 



44. I«. stenophylla, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 138. Stem erect, 

 little branched, villous. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 

 ^-J in. broad, acuminate, obscurely serrate upwards, clothed with ad- 

 pressed hairs on both surfaces. Whorls many-tlowered ; bracts linear, 

 mucronate, hispid, above J in. long. Fruit-calyx pubescent, nearly 1 in. 

 long ; throat very oblique, produced on the lower side ; calyx-teeth 

 mucronate ; 3 upper linear, erect ; 7 lower reflexed, of them the 3 central 

 ovate-lanceolate. Corolla 1 in. long ; upper lip villous. 



nXozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ukami ; near Gwala, 600 ft., Stuhl- 

 mann, 8157, 8158. 



45. Ii. Nyassse, GUrke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 137. A perennial, 

 with long branched densely hairy stems. Leaves nearly sessile, linear- 

 oblong, densely hairy on both sides, obscurely crenate, the lower 2-3 in. 

 long. Whoils solitary, terminal on the branches, many-flowered, 1| in. 

 diani. ; bracts large, linear, very hispid. Calyx very hairy; tube J in. 

 long ; throat oblique, pi-oduced on the lower side ; upper teeth deltoid ; 

 lower lip with larger ciisph. Upper lip of corolla J in. long, densely 

 villous. 



Mozaml). Dist. Kritish Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, 5200 ft., Nutt ! 

 Nyasaland; Shire Hij^Mands, between Blantyre and Zomba, Buchanan, 158! 460 ! 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan, 255 ! Northern Zambesia ; Batoka Highlands, 

 near Victoria Falls, Kirk ! 



Near L. indica, R. Br. 



46. L. Descampsii, Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 59. 

 Stem robust, with long internodes, scabrous with rigid ascending or 

 spreading hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, lJ-2 in. long, closely crenate, narrowed to the base, dark green, 

 thinly clothed with long spreading hairs. Whorl of flowers dense, 

 solitary, terminal, 1 in. diam. ; bracts large, lanceolate, ciliate on the 

 margin. Calyx sassile, \ in. long in flower ; throat oblique, produced 

 on the lower side ; 3 lower teeth linear-lanceolate, \ in. long ; 7 upper 

 much smaller, deltoid. Corolla protruding J in. from the throat of the 

 calyx ; lips \ in. long. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Upper Congo ; Moliro, Descamps. 



47. L. tettensis, Vatke in Limuea, xl. 180. An erect annual 

 herb, with pubescent stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves subsessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate or linear, 2|-3 in. long, ^-J in. broad, hairy on both surfaces, 

 faintly crenate. Whorls terminal, few or solitary, many-flowered, 

 nearly 1 in. in diam. ; bracts linear, hispid. Calyx hispid, with a 



