Geniospoi'um] xcvii. labiate. 853 



lower bracts about !; in. long, ovate-rhomnoid, somewhat pnboscent 

 beneath, sessile, denticulate or subcntire ; the u[)|)er ones smaller ; 

 flowers purple; calyx ■^.- in. long, obliquely campanulate-henii- 

 spherical, pube.scent, sub-bilabiate ; the .*} anterior lobes small, 

 deltoid ; the posterior lobe or lij) not exceeding the others, rounded 

 or subquadrate, entire or nearly so ; corolla I in. long, bilabiate ; 

 the tube y^- in. long ; stamens and style exserted. 



Hi" I i.i..\. — At the stream near Ferrao da Sola ; fl. May 18G0. No. 5499. 



.".. G. paniculatum Baker ms. in herb. 



An annual, usually erect herb of 2 to 4 ft., scarcely aromatic ; the 

 flowering stem simple or more or less branched, quadrangular, very 

 deeply 4-furrowed, elongate-virgate, strictly erect or ascending or 

 rarely pendulous, densely leafy up to the inllorescence excejtt the 

 lower part, puberulous or glabrate ; leaves elli})tical or ovate, 

 narrowed to the obtuse or scarcely acute apex, wedge-shaped or 

 nearly rounded at the sub.sessile or shortly petiolate base, opposite, 

 often with leafy buds or prominently leafy shoots in the axils, 

 crenate-dentate except the lower part, shortly hairy, puberulous 

 or glabrate, rather strongly nerved to the bast>, spreading or 

 pendulous, 'i to 1 r in. long by \ to -J in. broad ; flowers whitish, 

 very small, about ,\j in. long, subsessile, arranged in oblong or 

 very short bracteate capitate spikes ranging up to nearly an 

 inch long, axillary and terminal, altogether forming a terminal 

 interrupted compound or subsimple narrow inflorescence of 4 to 

 12 in. long ; bracts among the flowers broadly elliptical, pubescent 

 on the back, nearly glabrous on the front, y ., to ^ in. long ; calyx 

 campanulate in flower and -^^ in. long, hairy outside, smooth 

 inside, 5-cleft, scarcely bilabiate, 10-nerved, oblong and i in. long 

 in fruit ; the lobes ovate or lanceolate ; corolla puberulous outside ; 

 the tube very short, funnel-shaped,, nearly straight ; the limb 

 small, bilalnate ; the upper lip purplish, erect, emarginate or 

 obsoletely bilobed ; the lower lip directed forwards, shortly un- 

 guiculate at the ba.se, hemispherical-concave, sub-entire, white ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, ascending ; anthers becoming blackish, 

 almost circular, unilocular by the confluence of the cells ; style 

 cleft at the apex with 2 short spreading branches ; nutlets 4, 

 ovoid, somewhat compressed, slightly angular, about -^^ in. long, 

 pale brown, marked with numerous minute pajiilhe. 



PfNcio And()N(;(). — In wooded swampy places by streams, near 

 Catete ; fl. beginning of May 1857. No. 5528. In swampy places 

 near Quilanga ; fl.-bud April 1857. No. 5529. In the same locality 

 at the banks of streams. A branched densely leafy form, apparently 

 belonging to this species ; without fl. or fr. Feb. 1S57. No. 5529/'. 



Hrii.i.A. — Flowers bluish white. By pools on the Monino stream : 

 fl. April 18(!0. Apparently a slender state of this species. No. 5507. 

 On the banks of the stream near Ferrao da Sola : fl. May 18G0. No. 5508. 



Var. debile. 



Stems ascending or hanging down over rocks. 



PuNGo Andonco. — At the Casalalk rivulet near Pedra Songue : H. 

 April 1857. No. 5527. 



