868 xcvii. LABiATyE. [Si/mphostemon 



HuiLLA. — In hilly bushy sandy and rocky places about Lopollo, 

 towards the east, plentiful : fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 to Feb. 18(50. 

 No8. 1634, 5593. 



15. ^OLANTHUS Mart. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 1 176. 



1. M. elsholtzioi'des Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jalub. xix. p. 187 

 (21 Aug. 1894). 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb, 6 in. to about a foot high ; stem erect, 

 cylindrical or tetragonal, glandular-shaggy, somewhat viscid, purpMsh, 

 sparingly branched ; scent weak, not agreeable to every one ; leaves 

 bright green, somewhat fleshy, viscid-glandular ; flowers deep blue ; 

 calyx tubular, short, 4-toothed, the lowest tooth much larger than the 

 rest, bent inwards after flowering and then closing the tube ; corolla 

 rather long, tubular, the tube moderately curved, the limb bilabiate, 

 the upper lip trifid or (the middle lobe being deeply emarginate) 4-fid ; 

 the lower lip entire, saccate-cymbiform ; stamens 4, didynamous ; the 

 filaments free, naked ; style filiform : stigma bilobed, its branches 

 spreading. In moist meadows and by the clefts of rocks in Morro de 

 Monino, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 8 April 1860. No. 5478. A herb, 6 to 

 22 in. high. In very elevated rocky places in the same locality, in 

 company with Streptocarpna (cf. S. vionophyllus Welw. herb. n. 1660) ; 

 fl. and fr. April 18(30. No. 5479. 



2. M. Welwitschii Briq., I.e., p. 188. 



HuiLLA. — A fleshy shrublet, suffused with a reddish colour through- 

 ■out, sometimes even on the leaves ; flowers violet-purple. In the more 

 elevated rocky parts of Morro de Monino ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 5480. 

 Flowers rosy purple. By rocks in the elevated parts of Morro de 

 Monino ; fl. and fr. Jan. 18(i0. No. 5482. In the rocky parts of 

 Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. May 1860. No. 5481. 



3. JE. nodosus Hiern, sp. n. 



A hard and very rigid shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, glabrous or nearly 

 so, when out of flowei^ much resembling a species of Sedum ; stem 

 succulent, nodose, ascending, dichotomously branched ; branches 

 spreading, ascending, leafy below the terminal inflorescence; 

 leaves opposite, obovate or ovate or nearly orbicular, obtuse at 

 the apex, obtuse or attenuate at the base, fleshy, somewhat thick, 

 lepidote-glaucous, viscid, undulate-ci-enate on the margin, f to 

 2 in. long by 4 to If in. broad ; petioles ranging up to '^ in. long ; 

 flowers rosy, very crowded, lasting for a long time, ^ to }r in. long, 

 very shortly pedicellate or subsessile ; panicles pyramidal, minutely 

 viscid-glandular, 3 to 6 in. long ; their primary branches patent, 

 1 to 2^ in. long, bracteate at the base ; calyx tabular, ^^ in. long ; 

 corolla bilabiate ; the upper lip 4-lobed ; the lobes obtuse, erect- 

 reclined ; the lower lip sagittate-tripartite ; the middle lobe boat- 

 shaped, obtuse, bent downwards ; the lateral lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, erect or bent backwards ; stamens 4, didynamous, two 

 of them sterile; fertile anthers 1 -celled by the confluence of the 

 cells, dehiscing transversely ; style a little shorter than the fila- 

 ments, sub-bifid at the apex, the branches cohering ; nutlets 

 ovoid, naked. 



PuNGO Andongo. — By elevated volcanic rocks near Cabondo, 

 plentiful, but only in a few places ; fl. April 1857. Nos. 1627, 5596. 



