jEulanthus] xcvii. labiat.*:. 869 



Nearly related to .h'. Wehcltic/i ii Br\q., but with broader leaves, a 

 more rigid habit, etc. 



I. 2E. elongatus 15ri(i., I.e., ]•. 1S8. 



.Eolanthus sp., Ficjillio, PI. Uteis, p. 241 (1884). 



G(>Li'Ni:o Ai/ro. — A strongly aromatic herb, introduced from 

 Casange to the banks of the Luinha : fr. Dec IK.'.l. No. 5597. 



PiNco Andonco.— No notes. In fl. and fr. No. 5592. 



Hili.i,.v. — An annual, erect herb, branched from the base, rarely 

 simple or nearly so, from '^ in. to scarcely a foot high, the whole plant 

 very sweetly aromatic and beset everywhere with glandular pa])ill;u 

 intermi.xed on the stem and bracts with viscid hairs ; stem cylindrical 

 or somewhat tetragonal, as well as the spread ing-ascending branches 

 glaucescent fleshy and brittle ; leaves oblong-obovate, pale or glaucous- 

 green, somewhat Heshy, pellucid-punctate, brittle : flower-spikes 

 terminal and axillary, distichou.s or secund, bracteate ; bracts marked 

 below the apex with a large round reddish gland ; calyx shortly 

 tubular, sub-truncate, densely .shaggy-glandular outside and on the 

 margin ; corolla purplish, coloured like that of rosemary, tubular- 

 bilabiate : the tube curved, longer than the calyx ; the upper lip 

 trilobulate, .somewhat concave : the lower lip entire, boat-shaped ; 

 stamens 4. didynamous : filaments ascending, smooth : anthers 2-celled ; 

 the cells at length confluent, patelliform : style filiform, shortly bilobed 

 at the apex ; young nutlets 4, globular, smooth. Cultivated in negro 

 gardens about villages (Libata), and occasionally wild in neglected 

 plots ; apparently introduced from eastern or northern regions, fo** it 

 is altogether wanting from the western coast region. In Cazengo 

 Welwitsch was told that it had come from the further side of the river 

 Cuango beyond Canange ; it is grown for the sake of its fragrance 

 and is chiefly used for making women's pomatum. In elevated rocky 

 places on the Humpata plateau at an elevation of 58U0 ft., about 

 Sambo de Ferrao, rather rare ; fl. April 18G0 : also by the IMonino, 

 end of ]\Iay and !)eginning of June 18GU. Native name " Capiana." 

 No. 5598. 



5. M. rivularis Jlieru, sp. n. 



An annual, succulent, scentless herb, glabrous or nearly so, 4 to 

 9 in. long; stem prostrate, fleshy, rather thick, purplish and 

 divaricately branched below ; leaves ovate or elliptical, rather 

 obtu.sely narrowed at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped or 

 attenuate at tlie base, decnrrent on the short petiole or the upper 

 ones sessile, fle.shy, thick, j)nrplisli beneath, obtu.'^t'ly paucidentate, 

 ]- to 1 in. long by y to ^ in. broad ; petioles ranging up to nearly 

 }t in. long ; flowers bluish pui-ple or violet in colour, about \ to 

 ] in. long, sessile, arranged in divaricately paniculate spikes ; 

 inflorescence terminal, 1^ to Sin. long; bracts ranging up to V in. 

 long, usually smaller ; calyx small, about .}^ in. long, shortly 

 tubular-campanulate, subtruncate at the apex, somewhat rejiand- 

 dentate or emarginate, at length bur.sting in a circnmsciss manner 

 leaving a little cup behind ; corolla-tube about J- in. long, gradually 

 dilated upwards, gibbous above ; the limb deeply bilabiate ; the 

 upper lip subequally 4-lobed ; the lobes spreading like an erect 

 fan, each marked at the base with a transver.se purple velvety 

 line ; the lower hp unguiculate, deeply sagittate-trilobate, the 



