Ocimum] xcvii. labiate. 851 



inflorescence terminal, the central spike about a foot long; 

 verticils distant or the upper ones contiguous, 4- to 6-flowered, 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts puberulous, small, broad, caducous ; 

 pedicels very short ; flowers whitish-rosy, nearly glabrous, spread- 

 ing, large; calyx about Jin. long, tubular, somewhat puberulous, 

 pendulous in fruit, bilabiate, short 5-lobed ; the posterior lip 

 broad, entire, dark at the tip ; the anterior lip 4-lobed, denticulate- 

 fimbriate, thin, the lobes subulate at the apex from a broader 

 base ; corolla f ia. long or rather more, bilabiate, the tube about 

 ■| in. long, straight ; stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments exserted, 

 free among themselves, the longer pair about 1|- in. long, the 

 shorter pair about f in. long ; style far exserted, 1\ in. long, 

 slender, bifid at the apex ; the style-branches slender, subulate, 

 nearly equal ; nutlets 4, oblong. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In a sandy thicket between Cazella and Luxillo ; 

 only one specimen ; fl. 18 Oct. 1856. No. 5769. 



10. 0. huillense Hiem, sp. n. 



A suffruticose herb ; stem ascending from a decumbent base, 

 15 in. high, obtusely tetragonal above, leafy and clothed with 

 short whitish spreading scattered hairs ; leaves narrowly elliptical, 

 contracted towards the subacute apex, somewhat wedge-shaped at 

 the shortly petiolate base, firmly herbaceous, more or less sparingly 

 clothed with short whitish hairs, dark green above, rather ruddier 

 minutely glandular and punctulate beneath, repand or remotely 

 denticulate on the margin, about 3 in. long by f in. broad ; 

 inflorescence about 4 in. long, terminal, more or less clothed with 

 short whitish spreading hairs ; verticils about 6-flowered, the 

 lower ones distant, the upper ones approximated, the uppermost 

 ones forming the dense continuous apex of the spike ; flowers 

 subsessile, ■§ in. long ; calyx campanulate, ^ in. long, bilabiate ; 

 the posterior lip semicircular-ovate, subapiculate, i in. long, erect 

 in the flower, decurrent, dark purple, a little overlapping the 

 anterior lip at its base ; anterior lip, truncate-ovate, with two 

 short subulate teeth at the apex which reaches about as high as 

 the apiculus of the posterior lip, purple, densely ciliate along the 

 top with short hairs which form a whitish frill'; corolla-tube 

 about ■§■ in. long, funnel-shaped ; the limb bilabiate ; the posterior 

 Hp broad, trifid, with rounded lobes ; the anterior Up oval, nearly 

 as long ; stamens 4, didynamous, exserted, the filaments coiled up 

 together with the style in the bud, all free among themselves, 

 glabrous, two of them with a broad tooth or appendage at the 

 base ; style exserted, glabrous, long, cleft at the apex into 2 short 

 narrow branches. 



Htjilla.— In fl. No. 5488. 



2. HEMIZYGIA Briq. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 368 

 (1897), and in Ann. Conserv. & Jard. Geneve, ii. p. 244 (Dec. 1898), 



Ocimum sect. Hemizygia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. p. 41 (1848). 

 Ocimum Benth & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1171, partly. 



