,Solenostemon] xcvii. laiuat.k. SO') 



quickly falling off in the course of dryinor - petiolo | to 1 in. long ; 

 flowers snow-white, about i in. long, clustered several together 

 on pubescent pedicels of J- to ' in. long, in subsessile or shortly 

 stalked crowded cymes, arranged in oblong terminal and sub- 

 terminal thyrsoid snow-white [)anicles 2\ to 12 in. long; caly.x 

 hairy outside, glabrous insitle, openly campanulate, ^ in. long in 

 flower, i[- in. long in fruit, unec}ually 5-cleft ; four of the lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate, j'j to ^fj in. long; the tifth lobe oval, ^ in. 

 long ; corolla sigmoidly curved ; the tube twice bent, ,'g^ in. high ; 

 the limb minutely glandular outside, the longer lip covering tiie 

 andrcvcium ; stamens 4, didynamous ; the filaments iniited at 

 the base into a short tube slit down one side ; style long, exserted, 

 bifid at the apex, the branches short and narrow ; ripe nutlets 

 nearly black. 



Br.Miio. — In the wooded more elevated parts of Serra d;i Xella l)y 

 streams, above Chao de Xella, very rare; fi. and fr. Oct. IS.'iO. 

 No. 5619, and Coll. Caki'. 858. 



12. NEOMtJLLERA Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 18G 



(21 Aug. 18! 1 4). 



1. N. Welwitschii Briq., I.e., t. 3. fig. B. 



X. (UKjole/isi.s Jiriq. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 3G3 

 (1897). 



PuNuo AxDONGO, — An annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; 

 stem juicy, acutely quadrangular, with the angles feebly winged; 

 leaves not scented ; petioles deeply channelled, acutely keeled ; flowers 

 pleasantly fragrant, very beautifully blue : calyx 5-toothed, the top- 

 most tooth much larger and longer than the rest ; upper corolla-lip 

 shortly bilobed, the lobes obtusely unidentate on the outer side ; 

 stamen.s 4, all fertile, the filaments strictly monadelphous from the 

 base to the middle, the anthers dehiscing transversely, the cells con- 

 fluent : nutlets obovoid, somewhat compressed, quite naked. In the 

 bushy wooded parts of Mata de Pungo in the priosidium, plentiful ; 

 fl. 14 April 1857. Xo. 5544. 



13. COLEUS Lour. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 117(). 



1. C. Welwitschii Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 185 (1894), 

 and in Engl. Nat. PHanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 3G1 (1897). 



Pi'Nco Anduxgo. — A suffruticose herb or a somewhat thickly fleshy 

 brittle shrublet'; stems ascending, blood-red, 2 to 4 ft. high ; leaves 

 membranous, somewhat fleshy and viscid, deep green, densely hairy 

 beneath ; flowers purple or deep or clear blue ; calyx-teeth 4, the 

 lower one shortly bilobed at the apex, the lobes acute. In rocky 

 thickets throughout the district, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857 ; fl. 

 April 1857 ; by the elevated rocks of Pedra Cabonda in the prajsidium, 

 fl. May 1S57. Xos. 5589. 5585. 



Aspect of Pkrfnnit/n/s /drfit.-< J?enth. 



2. C. amboinicus Lour. FI. Cochinch. p. 372 (1790). 



Var. violaceus Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 210(21 Aug. 

 1894). 



LoAXDA. — A decumbent or ascending undershrub, with somewhat 

 erect branches : stem and leaves clothed with long and short hairs 



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