522 ADDENDA. 



ovate or suborbicular, 1-1 i in. long and broad, obtuse, toothed, pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, lax, simple, terminal ; 

 whorls 4-(')-flowereil. Fruit-calyx pubescent, J in. long ; upper tooth 

 broadly ovate ; lateral teeth truncate ; lower setaceous. Corolla white. 

 Stamens an inch or more long; posterior filaments with a tooth near 

 the base. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Uliehe ; plateau near Riignro, in the 

 neighbourhood of Iringa, 4800 ft., Qoetze, 542. 



23a. Ocimum huillense, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 851. A 

 suffruticose herb, with stems 15 in. long, ascending from a decumbent 

 base, clothed with short white hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, narrowly 

 elliptical, 3 in. long, | in. broad, subacute, cuneate at the base, repand 

 or remotely denticulate, sparingly clothed with short whitish hairs. 

 Inflorescence terminal, 4 in. long ; whorls 6-flowered, lower distant. 

 Calyx campanulatfe, J in. long ; upper tooth ovate ; lower teeth short, 

 subulate. Corolla |- in. long ; tube rather longer than the calyx. 

 Upper stamens with filaments toothed near the base. 



XiO^irer Guinea. Angola : district of Huiila, Welwitsch, 5488. 



23ft. Ocimum heckmannianum, GUrke in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 

 472. An undershrub i-H ft. high. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate- 

 lanceolate, 1-1 J in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, indistinctly 

 toothed, pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, short; 

 whorls G-8-flowered. Fruit-calyx J in. long; upper tooth suborbicular; 

 lateral teeth truncate ; lower subulate. Corolla violet. Stamens long, 

 much exserted ; posterior filaments with a tooth near the base. 



Mozamb. Bist* Geroian East Africa : Ukami ; Soutli Ulu;:uru Mountains, 

 on the watershed between the Mgeta River and Mbakana River, 2600 It., Goetze, 

 333. 



23c. Ocimum roseoviolaceum, Giirke in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 

 471. An undershrub 6-7 ft. high. Leaves very shortly petioled, 

 crowded, broadly ovate, J-1 in. long, acute, entire, glabrous on the 

 upper surface, pubescent beneath. Inflorescence racemose, short, 

 terminal. Fruit-calyx pubescent, \-\ in. long: upper tooth obovate; 

 lateral teeth truncate ; lower very long, setaceous. Corolla red-violet, 

 striate. Stamens 1 in. long; posterior filaments with a tooth near the 

 base. 



IKozanib. Blst. German East Africa : Ubebe; on Uchungwe Mountain, near 

 Dabagg8, 6500 ft., Ooetze, 640. 



25a. Ocimum tuberosum. Baker. An erect wiry herb a foot 

 high, with a thick tubeious-woody root. Stems pubescent upwards. 

 Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptical, 1-2^ in. long, obtuse or subacute, 

 cuneate at the base, toothed, glabrous or nearly so. Inflorescence 

 terminal, 1 J— 2 in. long; whorls about 6-flowered; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx campanulate, \ in. long ; upper tooth broad, minutely apiculate ; 

 lateral teeth subulate ; lower very short Corolla-tube short. Posterior 



