NEW OR RARE TROPICAL AFRICAN LABIAT 291 
+2cm.long. Bractesee modice 7-10 x 8-12 mm. Calyx 5m 
long. ; rages posticum 2:5 mm., anticum 1:5 mm. long. Corolla 
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9-10 mm. long.; tubus 6-7 mm., juxta medium levissime con- 
pia shines + mm. faue ibaa gegre 3 mm. .; labiu 
anticum 3 mm. long.; postici lobi — 1-5 mm., lobus inter- 
medius 5 2 2x15mm. Stylus 9-10 mm 
A very distinet species, oomalaed by the short and — 
very broad ternate leaves, the few-headed cymes, and the 
dumentum 
Acrocephalus (§ ScuizEPicHint) buddleioides, sp. nov. Cau 
sat elato pubescente cito puberulo, foliis distantibus siaoate 
elongatis lineari- a te sursum attenuatis margine distanter 
denticulatis undula utrinque scabriusculis fiferiori bt longi- 
petiolatis stiperictibias subsessilibus nisi sessilibus, capitulis medio- 
cribus globosis cymam oligocephalam laxam tomentosam refer- 
entibus, bracteis exterioribus anguste oblongo-linearibus obtusis 
basi amplificatis extus inferne tomentosis alibi scaberrimis margine 
microscopice crenulatis haud coloratis, bracteis interioribus oblate 
suborbicularibus dorso superne lana densa dilute brunnea obtectis 
aliter eh necnon nitidis, ealyete villosi labiis tubum excedenti- 
bus inter se equilongis labio antico ovato-oblongo abieuiatin mo 
indian postico late ovato tridentato, corolle tubo calycem super- 
nte superne ampliato labii postici lobo intermedio ovato-ob- 
longo obtuso lobis lateralibus oblongis labio antico lobo postici 
intermedio subsimili lobis omnibus dorso ealses. stylo braviter 
exserto. 
Hab. Congo Free State, under trees at Kundelungu ; Kédssner, 
2772. 
Folia ee = 20 em. long., petiolo fere 5 cm. long. ex- 
empto, summu a 3°5 cm. lat.; folia superiora -1:4cm., 
— pleraque 35-50 x 3-7 mm. Cyme +5 x 6 cm. Foran! 
“8 i + 2 cm. long. eee exteriores sepissime 10- 17 m 
ong., interiores circa 5-6 X ee Omm. Calyx 2-2:5 mm. Lied 
wate lobi 1:25mm. Corolle tubus 4 mm. long., basi *75 mm. ore 
1:75 mm. lat. ; labii postici lobi gases 1:75 mm. long., labium 
anticum 2 m Stylus 4°5 mm. long. 
Distinguished by the long and narrow leaves and the densely 
woo 
n was accompanied by an unsatisfactory one 
apparently referable to A. venosus Bak. 
Hemizygia (§ Hu- —— nigritiana, sp. Caule 
erecto sursum ramulos breves emittente folioso Sieniabaley foliis 
lineari-oblanceolatis obtusis story in sana um brevem coartatis 
margine dimidio inferiore integris vel summum repandis superiore 
serrulatis vel distanter denticulatis Ganka sie obtusis firme mem- 
branacei . sup. mox puberulis inf. griseo-tomentellis, verticil- 
astris sepissime 3-5-floris in spicastris simplicibus vel subsimpli- 
ibe us post floritionem elongatis (ita folia tandem longe excedenti- 
bus) oS digestis, bracteis majusculis diutule persistentibus 
obovatis obtusis unguiculatis puberulis coloratis, calycis 
scentis grr: tubo superne leviter amplificato lobo ‘pea 
