856 xcvii. LABiATA [Aerooephalus 



fl. end of Feb. 1860. JSTo. 5601. At the outskirts of forests 

 between Monino and Erne, and in the elevated wooded parts of 

 Barrancos de Monino, at an elevation of 5000 ft. and more ; fl. 

 beginning of April 1860. No. 6600. In Morro deLopoUo ; fl. andfr. 

 April 1860. No. 5602. 



3. A. lippioides Baker ms. in Herb. Kew. 



A robust, erect, somewhat scabrid herb, 3 ft. high or more ; 

 rootstock woody ; stem bluntly quadrangular, furrowed, puberu- 

 lous, simple at least below ; leaves opposite, narrowly elliptical, 

 contracted towards both ends, firmly herbaceous, minutely punc- 

 tate on both faces, crenulate on the margin, ranging up to 8 in. 

 long by 2i in. broad ; petioles ranging up to -f- in. long ; flower- 

 heads ovoid-hemispherical, |^ to f in. in diameter, arranged in a 

 terminal somewhat leafy corymb ; basal bracts ovate-triangular, 

 sessile, f in. long, the other bracts among the flowers smaller and 

 rounder ; flowers subsessile, about i in. long ; calyx -^-g in. long, 

 hairy outside below, bilabiate, the lobes short, entire, rounded ; 

 corolla-tube glabrous, -J in. long ; the limb 4-lobed, hairy outside 

 above, scarcely bilabiate ; the lobes -^-g to -^ in. long ; stamens 

 not exserted; style exserted. 



PuNGO Andongo. — ^At Lombe ; in fl. No. 5550. 



4. A, cylindraceus Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 135, 

 t. 132 (1875). 



A. viUosus T. Thorns, in Speke, Journ., App. p. 644 (1863) ; non 

 Benth. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish ; fruit clear blue. In thickets close to 

 the Humpata river among species of Polygonum (cf. Welw. herb, 

 no. 6362) and Salix (of. Welw. herb. no. 6332), etc. ; fl. and fr. April 

 1860. No. 5611. 



5. A. suceisifolius Baker ms. in Herb. Kew. 



A perennial herb, 8 to 16 in. high ; rhizome tuberous, many- 

 headed ; the tuber as large as a walnut, densely packed with a 

 white flesh which becomes woody; stems erect, obtusely quad- 

 rangular, furrowed, puberulous and remotely leafy above, 

 glabrescent and leafy at the base ; leaves opposite, narrowly 

 elliptical or sublinear, rather bluntly pointed at the apex, 

 attenuate at the base into the petiole, glabrous or nearly so, 

 erect or ascending, serrulate or repand on the margin, the lower 

 ones 3 to 8 in. long (including the petiole of 1 to 3 in.) by i to 

 ^ in. broad, the upper ones smaller ; flowers capitate, bracteate, 

 white or soon turning dusky, numerous, |- in. long; heads sub- 

 hemispherical, ^ to -J in. in diameter, pedunculate, not numerous, 

 arranged in lax terminal corymbs; peduncles of the heads 

 ranging up to 3| in. long, shortly pubescent, terminal and sub- 

 terminal, sometimes with foliaceous bracts at their apex ; bracts 

 among or at the base of the flowers broadly rhomboidal, densely 

 shaggy on the base, glabrous on the face, ^ in. long and broad ; 

 calyx yV in- long; densely shaggy outside at least below, smooth 

 inside, bilobed ; the lobes rounded, ciliate ; corolla bilabiate ; the 



