Gernumea] xcvii. labiat.k. 8G3 



posterior lip much smaller; stamens 4, didyiiamous, declinate, 

 included, glabrous; the filaments rather slender, free to their 

 base, inserted at the top of the corolla tube; style glabrous, 

 shortly exserted, rather slender, entire at the apex. 



PrN<;() Ani)(.N(;().— In H. No. 5543. 



This is nearly related to (i. courinna ; it was collected in the latter 

 part of !><.')(') or the early part of 1857. 



G. G. horrida. 



An ascending herb, 1^ to 2 ft. high, beset with pilose hairs, 

 perennial or sub-perennial ; stem densely hispid-shaggy, simple 

 or not much branched up to the inflorescence ; leaves opposite 

 deltoid-ovate, obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or very obtuse at 

 or near the base, herbaceous, somewhat fleshy, grey-gi-een at least 

 beneath, coarsely dentate, 1 to 2^ in. long by ^ to 2 in. broad ; 

 petioles ^ to ^\ in- long, be.set with long spi-eading pilo.se hairs, 

 often with stipuliform small leaves in their axils ; flowers blue or 

 purplish blue, ~ to t in. long, rather slender, on puberulous 

 .slender pedicels of i to \ in. long, about 4 to 6 in a whorl ; 

 whorls leafless arranged in terminal spikes, the upper ones 

 approximated, the lower ones less so or rather distant ; spikes 

 shortly pedunculate, about 7 to 9 in. long, with a few oppo.site 

 shorter branches near the base ; calyx obliquely sub-hemispherical, 

 J^ to y'^ in. long, sparingly hispid ulous outside, 5-cleft, the 

 posterior lobe ovate, scarcely longer than the subulate other lobes ; 

 corolla nearly glabrous, bilabiate, glandular alwut the apex in 

 bud ; the antei-ior lip much longer than the lower one ; the tube 

 1 to ^ in. long, narrow, funnel-shapeil ; stamens 4, declinate, all 

 fertile ; the filaments free to their ba.se ; style bifid at the apex. 



PuN(;(> Andoncjo. — In swampy rocky places in the prtcsidium ; 

 without fl. or fr. Jan. 1857 : by rocks at the great cataract of the 

 river Cuanza, near Condo ; fl. March 1«57. No. 5537- 



HuiM.A. — In the more elevated rocky parts of Morro de Monino ; 

 fl. beginning of April 1800. No. 5613. 



This species has the aspect of the Somali-land G. rupestris (Benth. 

 ex Yatke in Linnasa xliii. p. 89 [1881]), but it differs in the 

 herbaceous rather than suffruticose habit ; spikes somewhat branched 

 at the base, etc. 



11. SOLENOSTEMON Thoun. ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1175. 



1. S. ocymoides Schum. & Thonn. in Dan.ske Vid. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 45 (18l'9). 



SiKKKA Lkone. — A somewhat pubescent herb ; stem and branches 

 quadrangular, pubescent along the angles, furrowed ; leaves opposite, 

 roundly ovate, shortly acuminate at the apex, subtruncate or sub- 

 cordate about the base, sub-decurrent on the petiole, thinly herbaceous, 

 puberulous, minutely punctulatc, crenate except towards the base. 

 '2h to ?) in. long by 2 to 2.!, in. broad ; venation slender, puberulous 

 beneath; petiole 1 to 1^ in. long; inflorescence spike-like, terminal, 

 dense, 3 to 4 in. long : verticils many-flowered, approximate ; pedicels 

 spreading, shortly pubescent, ^ in. long or shorter ; flowers small ; 



