Platoatonml xcvii. LABiATiE. 855 



2. P. flaccidum Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 611 (Aug. 1855) ; 

 Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 165 (1894) {Platystoma). 



OcimumJlcuscidMm A. Eich. PI. Abyss, ii. p. 179 (1851). P. sp., 

 Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 1173. P. Schimperi Hochst. in PI. 

 Schimp, Abyss., ed. 2, Hohenacker, n. 2045 (1,852). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A prostrate-ascending herb, with reddish flowers. 

 In a cultivated place on the right bank of the river Cuango, in the 

 arimo of Senhor Mariano among pot-herbs, seen only in one spot ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 5536. A tender and insignificant annual 

 herblet, erect or ascending, germinating flowering and fruiting within 

 the space of 10 to 15 days ; stem angular ; calyx bilabiate, helmet- 

 shaped after flowering, closed with the upper lip entire and the quite 

 entire lower lip more closely incumbent ; corolla pale violet in colour, 

 more deeply violet on the lobes of the upper lip. In damp cultivated 

 places in plantations of Phaseolus at the banks of the river Cuango, 

 in company with Cardamine trichocarpa Hochst. (Welw. herb. no. 1189) ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1854 and Nov. 1855. No. 5535. An annual, rooting 

 herb, ascending or rather rarely somewhat erect ; flowers very small, 

 whitish, very caducous. By streams in the primitive forest of Quisu- 

 culo, in company with Begonia oxyloha Welw. herb. no. 875 ; fr. and 

 very few fl. April 1856. No. 5534. 



Hooker, I.e., considered this species as probably only a state of 

 P. africanum P. Beauv. 



5. ACROCEPHALUS Benth. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1173. 



1. A. gracilis Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 166 (1894). 

 PUNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb, IJ to 2 ft. high ; stems in 



some instances erect, in others ascending ; flowers violet in colour. In 

 thickets on a sandy clay soU, near Luxillo ; fl. beginning of May 1857. 

 No. 5548. 



HuiLLA. — A strictly erect annual herb or undershrub, 1 to 1^ ft. 

 high ; stem quadrangular, branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, some- 

 what rigid, bright green, arohing-patent or reflected ; flowers blue or 

 white-violet in colour, spicate-capitate ; the heads very densely brac- 

 teate, shaggy, pale violet in colour. In bushy pastures on the Humpata 

 plateau, fl. April 1860 ; in very elevated sandy sparingly bushy pastures 

 m Morro de LopoUo, plentiful, fl. April and May 1860 ; also in 

 very elevated sparingly herbaceous places in Morro de LopoUo, near 

 Empalanca, fl. beginning of May 1860. No. 5515- 



2. A. praealtus Briq., I.e., p. 168. 



An erect herb, perennial, 3 to 4 ft. high, branched ; branchlets 

 trichotomous, erect -spreading, tetragonal; flowers capitate-spicate, 

 densely bracteate, whitish with a violet tinge ; bracts whitish ; 

 calyx urceolate-tubular, truncate or shortly bUobed, densely 

 shaggy-bearded at the mouth, naked inside ; corolla pale violet 

 in colour, bilabiate ; the tube exserted, nearly straight ; the 

 upper lip erect, emarginate at the apex, the lower lip trilobed, 

 the middle lobe broader than the others ; stamens 4, didynamous,' 

 exserted ; filaments shaggy at the base ; anthers versatile, the 

 cells confluent, thickly pateUiform ; style filiform, undivided ; 

 stigma somewhat acute ; young nutlets smooth. 



HuiLLA.— In the forest among tall herbs, at the lake of IvantMa ; 



