872 xcvii. LABIATE. [^Holanthus 



two and ^E. Enqleri, he placed in a new section of the genus, which 

 section he calls Cephalaeolanthus, characterised by the sessile or sub- 

 sessile cymes being congested in terminal cephaloid racemes. 



16. ALVESIA Welw. in Trans. Linn. See. xxvii. p. 55 (1869) ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1176. 



1. A. rosmarinifolia Welw., I.e., p. 55, t. 19; Wildem. & Durand, 

 Illustr. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 4, p. 83, t. 42 (June 1899). 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, in habit resembling 

 rosemary but without scent ; stems several, more or less strictly erect, 

 obtusely tetragonal, pale purple, decussately ramulose ; branchlets 

 erect-patent, mostly abortive ; leaves lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, 

 shining above : panicles terminal ; flowers racemose, brilliantly rosy, 

 handsome ; calyx shortly campanulate, bilabiate, at length very much 

 enlarged, inflated, vesicular, closed at the mouth, greenish purple, 

 membranous ; the upper lip entire, directed forwards ; the lower lip 

 somewhat emarginate ; corolla-tube cylindrical at the base, above 

 widened in the form of a helmet, vertically compressed ; limb 

 bilabiate ; the upper lip short, 3-lobed, the middle lobe erect, the 

 lateral lobes truncate ; the lower lip entire, directed far forwards, 

 sheathing the stamens ; stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, nearly 

 naked, firm ; anthers all fertile, bilocular, uniform ; the cells almost 

 distinct, obtuse, diverging ; style filiform, somewhat acute, very shortly 

 and slenderly bifid. In thin forests and in sandy rather dry secondary 

 thickets near Lopollo and between Nene and Mumpulla, from 4000 to 

 5200 ft. of elevation, not plentiful ; few fl. 26 Jan. 1860, fl. Feb. and 

 April, young fr. May 1860 ; nearly always in company with various 

 Caesalpinie«, Proteaceae, and Thymelaeacese. Called by the Portuguese 

 colonists "alecrim do mato" (wood-rosemary). No. 1636. 



It grew in company with Croialaria eriithrophleha Welw. herb. no. 

 1983 ; see ante p. 200. " Alecrim das pedras " (rock rosemary) is 

 MurothamnusflaheWfolius Welw. herb. no. 1279, ante p. 331. 



17. MESOSPH^RUM P. Br. Hist. Jam. p. 257 (1756). 

 Condea Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 504 (1763). ffi/ptisJacci. Collect, i. 



p. 101 (1786); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii.'p. 1178. 



1. M. brevipes 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL ii. p. 525 (1891). 



Hyptis brevipes Poit. in Ann. Mus. Par. vii. p. 465 (1806). 

 Leticas Poggeana Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jabrb. xix. p. 193 (21 Aug. 

 1894); cf. Briq. in Bull. See. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. p. 61 (13 Aug. 1898). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, at first erect, afterwards 

 subscandent with weak elongated branches among reeds ; root fibrous ; 

 flowers white ; calyx 5- or rarely G-cleft ; the teeth with acute points 

 but not spiny, patent or spreading in fruit ; the tube a little inflated 

 about the ripe nutlets ; nutlets obvoid-clubshaped, smooth, somewhat 

 angular, blackish purple, very delicately wrinkled ; receptacle with 

 numerous elongated hair-like whitish-pellucid erect scales. At the 

 banks of the river Muio in Sobato Quilombo Quiacatubia, sparingly ; 

 fl. and fr. middle of July 1856. No. 5576. 



PuNdo AxDOXGO.— A herb, 3 to 6 ft. high : stem tetragonal, with 

 elongated .subscandent branches ; flowers purplish, very small, aggre- 

 gated within a foliaceous many-leaved involucre. In a damp thicket 

 close to the bank of the river Cuanza at Sansamanda, seen only in one 

 spot ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5599. 



