406 APPENDIX. 



inch long ; its lobes narrowly lanceolate, very acute, ciliate. Corolla 

 6-7 lines long, pubescent ; upper lip entire, lower minutely tridenti- 

 culate. Anthers 2-celled. Capsule broadly clavate, shortly stalked, 

 J inch long, hispidulous at apex, 2-seeded ; placenta? at dehiscence 

 rising elastically from their base. 



Matabele Land. — Also from Mount Chiradzura, Manganja Hills, 

 Zambesi District ; collected by Dr. Meller, after whom the species 

 is named. 



A very marked species, belonging to Nees's section Dactylostegice, 

 in which the two outer involucral bracts are unequal, and usually 

 enclose other supernumerary ones. Dr. Meller's specimen, which was 

 mixed with a species of Hypoestes, shows only the upper part of the 

 plant ; while Mr. Oates's is a single branch of the panicle, with flowers 

 and one or two capsules. Omitted in former edition. 



46. Hypoestes verticillaris, R. Br. 



Between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River. 



A second specimen from the same locality was, in the former 

 edition, doubtfully referred to H. Forskahlii, R. Br., now considered 

 as a form of H. verticillaris, R. Br., to which I consider both 

 the specimens may be certainly referred. 



Order SELAGINE^. 



47. Hebenstreitia Oatesii, n. sp. (Plate XII.) 



Perennial, apparently over a foot high, branched ; branches sub- 

 quadrangular, with decurrent lines of short deflexed hairs from the 

 leaf-bases. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear, sub-obtuse, serrulate, 

 with numerous small teeth, except at the attenuate base, not hairy, 

 5-I5 inch long, f-2j lines broad. Spikes elongate, reaching 3 inches 

 in fruit ; bracts ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 2-2J lines long, 1 line broad. 

 Calyx ovate, obtuse, glabrous, sub-membranous, with two herbaceous 

 nerves near the centre, i-i| line long. Corolla-tube slender, 3-4 lines 

 long, split at the front almost to the middle, dilated above, and ter- 

 minating in four oblong lobes, 1 line long. Anthers versatile, linear, 

 \ line long ; filaments short, inserted on the dilated margin of the cor- 

 olla. Style a little exserted, stigma simple. Fruit oblong, 2 lines long, 

 separating into two nutlets when mature, the front one often abortive. 1 



Between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River. — A specimen 

 collected in Faku's Territory by Dr. Sutherland is smaller and un- 

 branched, though in other respects so similar that I think it must 

 be a small form of the same species. 



1 [No record of flower-colour having been preserved by Mr. Oates, and the dried specimens 

 giving no ; indications of it, the flowers in the plate have been merely shaded and otherwise 

 left uncoloured. — Ed.] 



