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tubo cylindrico calyce paullo breviore limbi tubo vix equilongi 
labio postico antico equilongo triente superiore bilobo, staminibus 
4, ovario lineari-oblongo glabro, ovulis quove in loculo circa 12, 
stylo exserto glabro. 
Hab. Angola, wet sandy banks of the Cuiriri River at Sangua ; 
Gossweiler, 3034. 
aules circa 4-6 cm. alt. Folia solemniter 3-5-5 mm. long., 
15-2 mm. lat. Bracteole 2°5-3 mm. long., pedunculi totidem. 
Flores griseolo-cyanei. Calyx 5°5 mm. long. Corolla egre 
long.; tubus 3 mm. long., 1 mm. lat.; labium anticum fere 3 mm. 
long., hujus lobi oblongi, obtusissimi, 2 mm. long., intermedius 
mm. lat., laterales vix totidem ; labii postici lobi oblongi, obtusi, 
1x 5m Anthere ovate, °75 mm. long. Ovarium 2 mm., 
stylus 2°6 mm. long. 
Distinguished from the last described by the branching stems, 
smaller leaves, longer peduncles, short bracteoles, and smaller 
greyish blue corollas. 
Lepidagathis (§ Eu-Lermacaruis) Kaessneri, sp.nov. Caule 
erecto sursum rariramoso tetragono breviter albo-piloso deinde 
glabrescente, foliis sessilibus breviterve petiolatis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis basi apiceque obtusis margine undulatis vel dentatis nonnun- 
quam dentatis summis imminutis in bracteas transeuntibus per- 
gamaceis utrobique pilis sparsis appressis strigillosis indutis, 
spicis ovoideis terminalibus vel ex axillis summis oriundis pluri- 
floris, foliis floralibus inferioribus obovatis cuspidulatis dorso 
appresse griseo-hirsutis superioribus lanceolatis vel lanceolato- 
linearibus obtusiusculis dorso hirsutis omnibus branaceis, 
oe Congo Free State, Kundelungu, under trees; Késsner, 
Folia solemniter 6-1i em. long., 2-2-5 cm. lat., summa circa 
2-3 x 1-15 em., in sicco olivaceo-fusca subtus pallidiora. Spica 
x 2-2°5 cm. Poet exteriores + 10 ; 
11 mm. long., ima basi 1:5 mm. ore egre 3°5 mm. lat.; labium 
posticum 7 mm. long., hujus lobi 3 x 2:5 mm.; labii antici 7 mm. 
long. lobus intermedius 4:5 x 3 mm., laterales 3 mm. Anthere 
breviter exserte, loculi minime inequialti, basi mucronulati, 
15 long. variura anguste oblongo-ovoideum sursum 
attenuatum, 2 mm. long.; stylus 11:5 mm. long., pilosus; stig- 
matis rami lineares, ‘6 mm. long. 
A curious plant, in habit more like a Barleria than a Lepid- 
agathis, and quite different from any other known to me. S 
place in the genus would seem to be next L. scariosa Nees. 
