764 Lxxxix. scROPHULARiACE^. [Liiidemia 



-jiy to g in. long ; calyx campanulate-oblong, i in. long, shortly 

 5-cleft ; the teeth from an ovate base acuminate, acute, ciliolate, 

 about half as long as the smooth tube ; corolla bilabiate, blue ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, all perfect ; style ^ in. long, rather 

 thickened upwards ; stigma rather dilated. 



HuiLLA. — In wet pastures on the Humpata plateau, rather rare ; fl. 

 April 1860. No. 5784. 



5. L. ? montana Hiern, sp. nov. 



An erect puberulous hei-blet, simple or sparingly branched, 

 annual, 1 to 2 in. high ; stem and branches tetragonal, rather 

 slender; branches alternate when present, '|erect-patent or spread- 

 ing ; leaves opposite, ovate or broadly elliptical, obtuse at the 

 apex, obtusely narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, crenate- 

 dentate on the narrowly cartilaginous margins, subsessile, i to 

 ^- in. long by |^ to ^ in. broad ; internodes mostly longer than the 

 leaves ; flowers subfasciculate in very abbre\iated opposite 

 axillary and terminal clusters. 2 to 4 together or solitary in each 

 axil, subsessile or occasionally on slender pedicels ranging up to 

 I in. long, sometimes abortive ; calyx hispidulous, ^^ to ^ in. long ; 

 the teeth in fruit lanceolate-subulate, about J^ in. long or shorter^ 

 the tube more or less oblong ; corolla pale purple ; style Jj to 

 ^ in. long or in abortive flowers about ^ in. long, minutely bifid 

 and often capped at the apex with the remains of a portion of 

 the marcescent corolla ; fruit oblong, somewhat ellipsoidal, 

 acuminate at the apex |^ to |^ in. long, 2-celled, the cells several- 

 seeded, the pericarp thin, the seeds papillose-muriculate. 



HuiLLA. — In open mountainous places, carpeted with mosses and 

 small Cyperaceae, in Morro de Lopollo ; in late fl. Dec. 1859 and in fr. 

 end of Jan. 1860. Xo. 5787. 



This plant somewhat resembles in habit Ilysanthes nana Engl. 



11. ILYSANTHES Rafin. Ann. Nat. p. 13 (1820); Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 955. 



Bonnaya Link & Otto, Ic. PL Sel., fasc. 2, p. 25, t. 11 (1821); 

 Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 956. 



1. I. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 504, t. ix. (1897). 

 HuiLLA. — Corolla whitish, the lower lip purplish. In very elevated 



damp places in Morro de Lopollo among mosses ; fl. beginning of May 

 1860. No. 5781. 



2. I. nana Engl., I.e.. p. 505. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, annual in habit but apparently lasting for several 

 years, 1 to 2 in. high, branched at the base or nearly simple ; stem 

 tetragonal ; leaves rather fleshy, mostly purplish beneath ; corolla 

 white ; the upper lip much narrower than the lower, bilobed at the 

 apex, its lobes rather fleshy ; the lower lip purplish, 3-lobed, its lobes 

 denticulate, the middle one larger than the others and obovate ; 

 stamens 4, the two posterior ones fertile, the anterior ones inserted at 

 the base of the lower lip and sterile. In open moist places near 

 Lopollo; fl. and fr. Jan 1860. No. 5788. Flowers purple. In the 

 pastures of Empalanca among; mosses, algae, and short grasses ; fl. and 

 fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5789. 



