Germanea] xcvii. labiate. 863 



posterior lip much smaller ; stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, 

 included, glabrous; the filaments rather slender, free to their 

 base, inserted at the top of the corolla tube ; style glabrous, 

 shortly exserted, rather slender, entire at the apex. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In fl. No. 5543. 



This is nearly related to G. concinna ; it was collected in the latter 

 part of 1856 or the early part of 1857. 



6. O-horrida. 



An ascending herb, 1|- to 2 ft. high, beset with pilose hairs, 

 perennial or sub-perennial; stem densely hispid-shaggy, simple 

 or not much branched up to the inflorescence ; leaves opposite 

 deltoid-ovate, obtuse at the apex, subtrunoate or very obtuse at 

 or near the base, herbaceous, somewhat fleshy, grey-green at least 

 beneath, coarsely dentate, 1 to 2f in. long by |- to 2 in. broad ; 

 petioles f- to 1-^ in. long, beset with long spreading pilose hairs, 

 often with stipuliform small leaves in their axils ; flowers blue or 

 purplish blue, f to f in. long, rather slender, on puberulous 

 slender pedicels of |- to -J- in. long, about 4 to 6 in a whorl; 

 whorls leafless arranged in terminal spikes, the upper ones 

 approximated, the lower ones less so or rather distant ; spikes 

 shortly pedunculate, about 7 to 9 in. long, with a few opposite 

 shorter branches near the base ; calyx obliquely sub-hemispherical, 

 y^g- to -^^ in. long, sparingly hispidulous outside, 5-cleft, the 

 posterior lobe ovate, scarcely longer than the subulate other lobes ; 

 corolla nearly glabrous, bilabiate, glandular about the apex in 

 bud ; the anterior lip much longer than the lower one ; the tube 

 |- to ^ in. long, narrow, funnel-shaped ; stamens 4, declinate, all 

 fertile ; the filaments free to their ba.se ; style bifid at the apex. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In swampy rocky places in the prsesidium ; 

 without fl. or fr. Jan. 1857 ; by rooks at the great cataract of the 

 river Cuanza, near Condo ; fl. March 1857. No. 5537. 



HuiLLA. — In the more elevated rocky parts of Morro de Monino ; 

 fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 5613. 



This species has the aspect of the Somali-land G. rupestris (Benth> 

 ex Vatke in Linnsea xliii. p. 89 [1881]), but it differs in the 

 herbaceous rather than suffiruticose habit ; spikes somewhat branched 

 at the base, etc. 



11. SOLENOSTEMON Thonn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1175. 



1. S. ocymoides Schum. & Thonn. in Dan.ske Vid. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 45 (1829). 



Sierra Leone. — A somewhat pubescent herb ; stem and branches 

 quadrangular, pubescent along the angles, furrowed ; leaves opposite, 

 roundly ovate, shortly acuminate at the apex, subtrunoate or sub- 

 cordate about the base, sub-decurrent on the petiole, thinly herbaceous, 

 puberulous, minutely punctulate, crenate except towards the base, 

 2^ to 3 in. long by 2 to 2^ in. broad ; venation slender, puberulous 

 beneath ; petiole 1 to \\ in. long ; inflorescence spike-like, terminal, 

 dense, 3 to 4 in. long ; verticils many-flowered, approximate ; pedicels 

 spreading, shortly pubescent, \ in. long or shorter ; flowers small ;. 



