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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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Micromeria bijlora (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 378. 1834; Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. 12: 220. 1848; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 452. 1900, 

 pro majore parte. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, among tall grass on a rocky slope; herb 75 

 cm. high, corolla white with three purple spots on lower lip, 1430 m., May 29, 

 1946, 16077; ibid., in dense clumps on exposed rocks, 30 cm. high, flowers white, 

 blotched with purple, 1430 m., May 30, 1946, 16096. Mlanje District: Mlanje Moun- 

 tain; Luchenya Plateau, common in rocky grasslands, herb 10-20 cm. high, 2150 

 m., June 27, 1946, 16466. Abyssinia to South Africa; also in India. 



Satureja masukuensis (Bak.) Eyles, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 462. 1916. 



Leucas masukuensis Bak. Kew. Bull. 1898: 162. 1898; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 



Trop. Afr. 5: 476. 1900. 

 Nepeta usafuensis Gurke, Bot. Jahrb. 30: 394. 1901. 



Calamintha masukuensis (Bak.) S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 179. 1911. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common locally in open grasslands, 

 shrub 1 m. tall, mint-scented, erect, sparsely branched, flowers white, 2350 m., 

 Aug. 16, 1946, 17248. Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, and S. Rhodesia. 



The type-specimen of Nepeta usafuensis (Goetze- 1131 from the Poroto Mts. 

 in southwestern Tanganyika Territory) is now presumably destroyed. The descrip- 

 tion however agrees well with a specimen subsequently collected there {Greenway 

 3551) and with a sheet issued from Berlin with the name Nepeta usafuensis on it 

 (Stolz 376), both of which are certainly S. masukuensis. Gurke described the 

 calyx of Nepeta usafuensis as 15-ribbed, but I believe this to be an error of ob- 

 servation; in all the specimens I have looked at it is 13-ribbed. 



Satureja vernayana Brenan, sp. nov. 



S. myrianthae (Bak.) Brenan (vide infra) affinis, foliis basi angustatis apice 

 obtusis nec acutis differt. 



Herba vel frutex usque ad 90 cm. alta, erecta, perennis,.stolonifera, pulegii 

 graveolens (fide cl. Brassii in sched.), Caules usque ad 3 ram. diametro, tetragoni, 

 brunneo-purpurascentes, pilis adscendentibus breviter griseo-pubescentes, sub- 

 simplices, ramos breves vel brevissimos adscendentes emmittentes. Folia oppo- 

 sita, firma, parva, elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, 0.7-1.5 cm. longa, 0.3-0.9 cm. 

 lata, subintegra, denticulis utrinque 1-4 valde inconspicuis praedita, basicuneata, 

 apicem obtusum versus plus minusve angustata, supra glabra vel sub lente valido 

 et basim versus praesertim minute puberula necnon impresse punctata, costa et 

 nervis lateralibus impressis vel inconspicuis, subtus pallidiora, creberrime ac 

 conspicue glanduloso-punctata, costa nervisque lateralibus utrinque 2-4 promi- 

 nulis sursum adversis puberulis exceptis glabra, venulis hand cernendis; petiolus 

 brevissumus, 1-2.5 mm. longus. Inflorescentiae terminales, spiciformes, 9-15 

 cm. longae (vel eae ramos laterales terminantes multo breviores), circiter 1.5 cm. 

 diametro, saepe leviter purpurascentes; verticillastri dense multiflori, conferti 

 vel inferiores 1-2 cm. inter sese distantes. Bracteae inferiores foliis supremis 

 similes, sessiles, ellipticae,. 0.6-1 cm. longae, 0.3-0.6 cm. latae, superiorae 

 gradatim minores, supremae circiter 5x2 mm. Bracteolae lineari-lanceolatae, 

 valde acuminatae, 6-7 mm. longae, 0.5-1 mm. latae, pubescentes. Flores sub- 

 sessiles; hermaphroditi tantum cogniti; pedicelli 0.5-1 mm. longi, pubescentes. 

 Calyx dentibus inclusis circiter 7.5 ram. longus, extra dense patule pubescens; 

 tubus elongato-campanulatus, 13-nervius, extra glandulis sessilibus aureis nu- 

 merosis gemmatus, intus glaber, dorso 5.5 mm. longus, ventre 4.5 mm. longus, 

 dentes elongato-triangulares, acuminatae, pubescentes, tres postici 2 mm. longi 

 basi 0.6 mm. lati, quam duo antici 3 ram. longi basi 0.8 mm. lati paulo breviores. 

 Corolla alba; tubus circiter 5.5 mm. longus, basi 1 mm. diametro, sursum paulo 



