872 xcvii. LABiATiE. \^M>lanthus 



two and yK. Engleri, he placed in a new section of the genus, which 

 section he calls Cephalaeolanthus, characterised by the sessile or sub- 

 sessile cymes being congested in terminal cephaloid racemes. 



16. ALVESIA Welw. in Trans. Linn. Sec. xxvii. p. 55 (1869) ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1176. 



1. A. rosmarinifolia Welw., I.e., p. 55, t. 19; Wildem. & Durand, 

 Illustr. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 4, p. 83, t. 42 (June 1899). 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, in habit resembling 

 rosemary but without scent ; stems several, more or less strictly erect, 

 •obtusely tetragonal, pale purple, decussately ramulose ; branchlets 

 erect-patent, mostly abortive ; leaves lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, 

 shining above ; panicles terminal ; flowers racemose, brilliantly rosy, 

 handsome ; calyx shortly campanulate, bilabiate, at length very much 

 enlarged, inflated, vesicular, closed at the mouth, greenish purple, 

 membranous ; the upper lip entire, directed forwards ; the lower lip 

 somewhat emarginate ; corolla-tube cylindrical at tbe base, above 

 widened in the form of a helmet, vertically compressed ; limb 

 bilabiate ; the upper lip short, 3-lobed, the middle lobe erect, the 

 lateral lobes truncate ; the lower lip entire, directed far forwards, 

 sheathing the stamens ; stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, nearly 

 naked, firm ; anthers all fertile, bilocular, uniform ; the cells almost 

 distinct, obtuse, diverging ; style filiform, somewhat acute, very shortly 

 and slenderly bifid. In thin forests and in sandy rather dry secondary 

 thickets near LopoUo and between Nene and MumpuUa, from 4000 to 

 5200 ft. of elevation, not plentiful ; few fl. 26 Jan. 1860, fl. Feb. and 

 April, young fr. May 1860 ; nearly always in company with various 

 CaesalpiniesB, Proteacese, andjThymelseacesB. Called by the Portuguese 

 colonists "alecrim do mato" (wood-rosemary). No. 1636. 



It grew in company with Crotalaria erythropMeba Welw. herb. no. 

 1983 ; see ante p. 200. " Alecrim das pedras " (rock rosemary) is 

 Myroihamnus flabellif alius Welw. herb. no. 1279, ante p. 331. 



17. MESOSPHJERUM P. Br. Hist. Jam. p. 257 (1756). 

 Gondea Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 504 (1763). ffyptisJa.cq. Collect, i. 



p. 101 (1786); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1178. 



1. M. brevipes 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 525 (1891). 



Hyptis brevipes Poit. in Ann. Mus. Par. vii. p. 465 (1806). 

 Leucas Poggeama Briq. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 193 (21 Aug. 

 1894); of. Briq. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. p. 61 (13 Aug. 1898). 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, at first erect, afterwards 

 subscandent with weak elongated branches among reeds ; root fibrous ; 

 flowers white ; calyx 5- or rarely 6-olef t ; the teeth with acute points 

 but not spiny, patent or spreading in fruit ; the tube a little inflated 

 about the ripe nutlets ; nutlets obvoid-clubshaped, smooth, somewhat 

 angular, blackish purple, very delicately wrinkled ; receptacle with 

 numerous elongated hair-like whitish-pellucid erect scales. At the 

 banks of the river Miiio in Sobato Quilombo Quiacatubia, sparingly ; 

 fl. and fr. middle of July 1856. No. 6576. 



PuNGO Andongq. — A herb, 3 to 5 ft. high ; stem tetragonal, with 

 elongated subscandent branches ; flowers purplish, very small, aggre- 

 gated within a foliaceous many-leavedi involucre. In a damp thicket 

 close to the bank of the river Cuanza at Sansamanda, seen only in one 

 spot ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5599. 



