874 xcvii. LABIATE. [Origanum 



20. ORIGANUM Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook.- f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1185. 



1. 0. Majorana L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 590 (1753). 



LOANDA. — A suffrutioose herb, very pleasantly aromatic, 1^ to 2 ft. 

 high, hoary-pubescent on all parts including the branches except the 

 white corolla ; calyx turbinate, in front cleft to the base. Cultivated 

 in gardens but rather rarely : at the quintal of Dr. Mendes Alfonso ; 

 fl. 17 Oct. 1858. No. 5559. 



21.CLIN0P0DIUM Tournef., L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 587 (1753). 



Galamintha Lam. FL Fr. ii. p. 393 (1778); Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PL ii. p. 1190; non Adans. (1763). 



1. C. Calamintha 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PL ii. p. 515 (1891). 



Melissa Galamintha L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 593 (1753). Gala- 

 mintha officinalis Moench, Meth. PL p. 409 (1794); Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. p. 228 (1848). 



Var. villosissimum (Benth., I.e. ; Lowe, Prim. Mad., app. 0, 

 p. xi [1851]). 



Island op Madeira. — At Oamara dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. 12 Aug. 

 1853. No. 6539. 



22. SALVIA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 1194. 

 1. S. pseudocoocinea Jacq. Collect, ii. p. 302 (1788). 



Island of Madeira. — ^Woody and branched near the base ; flowers 

 scarlet. Excarsion to Camara dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. 12 Aug. 1853. 

 No. 6540. 



23. ACHYROSPERMUM Blume ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL 

 ii. p. 1208. 



1. A. aethiopicum Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 56 (1869). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial, erect herb, 5 to 7 ft. high ; stem 

 sparingly branched, obtusely tetragonal, giving ofE from the middle to 

 the apex in the axils of the leaves solitary spikes of flowers ; spikes 

 tetragonal-pyramidal, 1^ to 2J in. long ; calyx white, elongate-cam- 

 panulate, tubular, dilated towards the limb, 6-toothed, sub-bilabiate, 

 the three teeth of the upper lip a little larger than the two of the 

 lower lip, all acute ; corolla white, tubular ; the tube straight, closed 

 at its middle with 5 scales directed downwards ; the limb 5-cleft, 

 bilabiate ; the upper lip shortly or slightly bilolsed ; the lower lip 

 trifld, the middle lobe very broad, the segments obtuse ; stamens 4, 

 didynamous, sub-exserted or sometimes quite exserted, inserted at the 

 middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments sub-compressed, short ; anthers 

 bilocular or by confluence unilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; style 

 filiform ; stigma bilobed ; the lobes cylindrical, short, equal ; nutlets 

 crowned at the apex with very numerous closely inter woven membranous 

 whitish scales resembling a pappus. In the shady forest at a cataract 

 in the rocky Calundo valley, near the prassidium, sporadic and rather 

 rare ; fl. 6 May, half -ripe fr. 18 May 1857. No. 1633. 



24. STACHYS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook, f.- Gen. PL ii. p. 1208. 

 1. S. andongeusis Hiem, sp. n. 

 A perennial herb ; stems numerous, 4 ft. high, branched, densely 



