Goleus] xcTii. LABIATE. 867 



many-flowered, numerous, the lower ones more or less distant, the 

 upper ones contiguous ; axillary cymes sessile or subsessile ; pedicels 

 about |- in. long, shortly pubescent ; flowers purplish, verging on 

 blue, f in. long ; calyx about -^-jj in. high in flower, \ in. long in 

 fruit, spreading or turning downwards in fruit ; the tube pubescent ; 

 the limb bilabiate, spreading ; one lobe broad and larger than the 

 rest, about -^^ in. long in the flower and i in. long in fruit ; throat 

 naked ; corolla curved in a sigmoid manner, subglabrous, shghtly 

 puberulous outside with short scattered hairs, bilabiate ; the lips 

 nigro-punctulate ; the larger lip \ in. long, bent at a right angle 

 at the base, coneave-conduplicate, enclosirfg the andrcEoium ; 

 stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments united at the base into a short 

 tube ; style slightly thickened at the apex ; nutlets yellowish, 

 glabrous, ovoid, ^ in. long. 



HuiLLA. — In herbaceous places close to the banks of the Lopollo 

 stream at Ferrao da Sola ; fl. and fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 5612- 



14. SYMPHOSTEMON Welw. ms. in Herb., gen. nov. 



Calyx at the time of flowering obliquely campanulate, gibbous 

 at the back of the base, 5-cleft, sub-bilabiate, in fruit somewhat 

 increased and usually pendulous ; the teeth unequal, the posterior 

 tooth broadly ovate and obtuse or apiculate, the other teeth 

 narrower and acute ; corolla-tube exserted, shortly tubular-funnel- 

 shaped, not sigmoid, a little curved and gibbous at the back near 

 the base ; the throat wide, scarcely oblique ; the limb bilabiate, 

 the posterior lip shortly 4-lobed, the anterior one longer entire 

 boatrshaped and laterally embracing the genital organs ; stamens 4, 

 didynamous, declinate, all fertile, falling a little short of the 

 anterior corolla-lip ; filaments widening at the base and united 

 in a short flat lamina inserted on the corolla-throat at the base 

 of the anterior lip ; anthers roundish, the cells confluent ; disk 

 fleshy, produced into 4 thick obovoid glands beside the base of the 

 nutlets ; ovary 4-partite ; style shortly exceeding the corolla-tube, 

 nearly entire ; stigma emarginate at the apex ; nutlets com- 

 pressed, obovoid. 



A nearly glabrous minutely glandular herb ; leaves opposite, 

 sub-opposite, sub-ternate, and sub-alternate ; racemes terminal ; 

 pedicels alternate opposite and sub-ternate, bracteate at or near 

 the base, spreading. 



1. S. insolitus. 



Ptectranthus insolitus C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiv. 

 p. 275, t. 6, figs. 7 & 8 (July 1899). 



Perennial, 6 to 12 in. high, very elegant; rootstock tuberous, 

 large, fleshy ; stems several, erect or ascending, simple or branched 

 near the base, rigid ; leaves sub-linear, narrowed at both ends, 

 herbaceous-green, somewhat rigid, entire or pauci-denticulate, 

 sessile, -I to 2 in. long by -^ to \ in. broad ; inflorescence 2 to 6 in. 

 long ; lower pedicels about ^ in. long ; bracts ranging up to \ in. 

 long ; flowers |^ to f in. long, clear blue, glandular ; calyx 

 glandular, |- to -y in. long ; style ^ in. long. 



