Stachytarpheta. 21 



4— 6V2 cM., petioles 2V2— 4 cM.; spikes stout, 15—45 

 cM. long, the flowers in excavations of the rhachis, bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, strigosely hairy, 

 0.6—1.2 cM. long; calyx 1 — 1.2 cM., with 4 acute teeth, 

 strigosely pubescent, the teeth on the outer side, the tube 

 cleft on the inner; corolla pink, the tube curved, 2Vs cM. 

 long, Hmb spreading with 5 rounded lobes; stamens with 

 villous filaments, anthers 0.12 cM.; staminodes subulate, 

 villous, 0.35—0.5 cM,;. fruit oblong, ovoid, or somewhat 

 pyriform. 



Distribution: from tropical America imported into the 

 old world, and widely spread in Southern India, Java!, 

 Ambon; also in Central Africa. 



2. S. bogoriensis Zoll. et Mor., Syst. Verz., 52, (1846). — 

 A perennial herb; branchlets glabrous; leaves obovate, 

 obtuse, glabrous, base decurrent, margins serrate, the 

 teeth mucronulate, together with the'petioles reaching 5 — ^7 '/a 

 cM. in length; spikes 15 — 30 cM. long, bracts^ subulate 

 shorter than the flowers, which are immersed in the hollows 

 of the fleshy rhachis; corolla pale blue. 



Distribution: only mentioned from Bogor (Buitenzorg, 

 Java), Zolhnger no. 849. 



Perhaps it will appear that this species, which never, as far 

 as we know, has been discovered for a second time, is iden- 

 tical with one of the other species. 



3. S. dicbotoma Vahl, Enum., I, 207, (1805); Schauer, 

 DC, Prodr., XI, 561; Koorders, Exk. fl. v. Java, III, 

 133; Backer, Ann. Jard. bot. Buitzg. suppl. 3, I, 415; 

 Martius, Fl. Brasil., IX, 199—? S. cayennensis Vahl 

 I.e. 208; Hall, f., Med.*'s Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 20. — 

 A herb?; branchlets dichotomous, quadrangular, sparsely 

 pubescent, densier on the nodes; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, base decurrent, apex acute or acuminate, margins 

 coarsely dentate-serrate, strigosely hispid, glabrous on both 

 sides, or sparsely rugose, membranous, 5 — 10 cM. long. 



