jEolanthus] xcvii. lahiat^e. 871 



than the leaves; calyx tubular-campanulate, very shortly 5-toothoil, 

 about -j\y ill. long in flower, in fruit moderately enlarged erect- 

 spreading closed at the mouth circumsciss at the base ami 

 deciduous together with the nutlets ; the teeth subetjually and 

 very shortly deltoid ; corolla-tulM' far exserted, deciduous, quite 

 naked inside, widened towards the throat ; the lower lip giblwus 

 at the base ; stamens 4, (Hdynamous, the two sterile ones a little 

 longer than the others ; style shortly subulate-bidd at the aiiex. 



Pi Nfio Andonco. — In the more elevated rocky wooded ])art3 of 

 ]\Iut()llo by Pedras de Guinga, plentiful ; fl. and fr. March 18J7. Nos. 

 1628. 5595. 



s. m. Engleh Briq., I.e., p. 189, 



Hl'IIJ..\. — An erect shrub or a perennial frutescent herb, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high or more, woody at least at the base, throughout sweetly .scented like 

 Ovimiini bagilicuiii but not strongly so, sparingly branched at the apex ; 

 main stems nodose, cylindrical, pale greenish, .somewhat fleshy ; 

 branches mostly opposite ; leaves opposite, often with fascicles of 

 other leaves in their axils, .somewhat tleshy-coriaceous. rather rigid, 

 erect, pale green and densely but not pellucidly punctate on both faces, 

 denticulate towards the apex, pleasantly aromatic ; midrib prominent 

 above, channelled-imprcssed beneath ; Howers arranged in dense 

 compound axillary shortly pedunculate spikes, forming long terminal 

 cylindrical glandular racemes ; calyx bibracteolate at the base ; the 

 tube shortly tubular-campanulate, truncate at the mouth, deeply 

 5-crenate, minutely glandular outside ; corolla coloured as in Salria 

 pratfi)i.<!is L. : the tube much longer than the calyx, curved in the 

 middle, widened towards the throat : the limb bilabiate : the upper lip 

 erect, ;3dobed, the middle lobesub-emarginate ; the lower lip directed 

 forwards boat-shaped, subenlire : stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube, subexserted on account of the gaping of 

 the corolla-lips but rather shorter than they, naked ; anthers versatile, 

 the cells at length confluent and while dehiscing peltate-circular ; 

 style filiform, but little curved, terminating in the small subtruncate 

 more deeply coloured stigma : young nutlets obtusely ellipsoidal, 

 somewhat compressed, angular, smooth, whitish : bracteoles violet- 

 purple, much exceeding the calyx, marked near the apex outside with 

 a large circular gland which is tumid at the margin. In wooded rather 

 elevated damp thickets in Morro de LopoUo, in company with Mela- 

 stomaceie and species of A'y;vs, between Catumba and Hai : fl. beginning 

 of April IxtJd. Xo. 5615. A shrub, '.'> to 4 ft. high, erect, sparingly 

 branched ; bracts, etc., violet-purple. In thickets at the outskirts of 

 the forest between Eme and Ivantala, rather rare ; fl. and fr. end of 

 May 18GU. Xo. 5616. 



Pl<'ctra/it/in.'< WdwiUrhii Vatke, mentioned by Briquet, /.r., under 

 yE. ohtitsifiiliii.'i Briq., included ^I'L Englcri. .J-J. ()bli(.-</foHu!< is stated 

 to have been collected by Welwitsch, no. 473, at Malandsche (Malange) ; 

 this is an error ; probably Mechow was the collector intended to be 

 mentioned. I have not seen the type of ./•.'. uhlKsifo/hts, hut iroxn 

 Briquet's description I suspect that Vatke was right in considering it 

 as conspecific with .E. EtKjleri. Briquet, /.c, p. 100, describes also 

 from Angola ^E.jlnrihiaidus^ the type of which I have not seen ; but 

 he states that it is very near to . E. obtuxifolins, and that the two should, 

 perhaps, be considered as forming varieties of an aggregate species for 

 which he suggests the former name. The three species, namely, these 



