862 xcvii. LABiATiE. [GermoMect 



the inflorescence sometimes sessile or subsessile ; flowers white or 

 deep blue, ^ to f in. long ; inflorescence terminal and in some 

 cases axillary also, rather lax and usually many-flowered, narrowly 

 pyramidal, more or less compound, cymose ; cymes not verticUlate ; 

 ultimate pedicels ranging up to |^ or J in. long, puberulous and 

 minutely glandular ; flowering calyx very small, -^ in. long, 

 glandular, shortly 5-lobed, one lobe broad, the other lobes narrower; 

 fruiting calyx |- to ^ in. long, punctate with scattered black 

 glands, one lobe rotund and veiuy, the other lobes lanceolate and 

 short ; corolla thin, glabrous, black -punctate, bent in a sigmoid 

 manner ; stamens 4, didynamous, all fertile ; filaments apparently 

 free to the base, inserted high vip on the corolla-tube, tapering 

 upwards, not toothed ; stigma shortly exserted, entire, somewhat 

 thickened at the apex. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In Mata de Pungo ; fl. and fr. April 1857. 

 No. 5533. 



Var. eaerulea. 



About 9 in. high ; flowers deep blue. 



Pungo Andongo. — By streams in the more elevated rocky parts 

 of the prsesidinm, sparingly ; fl. Deo. 1856. No. 5531. 



Yar. albiflora. 



A slender limp herb, 1 to 1|- ft. high ; flowers white. 



Pungo Andongo. — Id sandy places between Luxillo and Cazella, in 

 tall grass ; fl. beginning of May 1857. No. 5586 partly. 



The last variety bears a close resemblance to P. parvus Oliv., a 

 Somali-land species, but the calyx slightly differs and the corolla is 

 smaller in the latter. Part of No. 6586 consists of flowerlesa specimens 

 apparently of a different species. 



5. G-. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, apparently perennial herb ; rootstock somewhat 

 woody ; stem simple or nearly so, puberulous, striate ; internodes 

 mostly 2 to 4 in. long ; leaves ovate, narrowed or subacuminate 

 towards the obtuse tip, more or less attenuate at the base, slightly 

 puberulous, thinly herbaceous, black, punctulate beneath, crenate 

 except near the base, 2 to 3^ in. long by |-to If in. broad ; lateral 

 veins 3 or 4 on each side of the rdidrib, ascending, slender, the 

 lower ones with inflected curvature about their middle ; petioles 

 ranging up to f in. long, the uppermost ones much shorter ; 

 inflorescence terminal, somewhat oblong in outline, compound, 

 cymose, many-flowered, rather lax, about 6 in. long and an inch 

 in diameter, puberulous ; common peduncle about an inch long, 

 bibracteate at the base, the bracts foliaceous, about -I in. long, 

 sessile ; ultimately pedicels ranging up to about | in. long ; flowers 

 about ^ in. long ; calyx -^ in. long, glandillar-puberulous, 5-cleft, 

 the posterior lobe the broadest, the lateral lobes the smallest, the 

 anterior lobes united to near the apex ; corolla exserted, curved 

 in a sigmoid manner, glabrous; the tube bent forwards at the 

 middle ; the limb bilabiate, nigro-punctulate ; the anterior limb 

 broad, folded inwards along its concave axis, ^ in. long; the 



