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sweetly scented leaves, 2895 m., Feb. 28, 1934, Greenway 3918; ibid., upper limit of 

 temperate rain-forest, herb with purple inflorescence and salvia-like flowers and very 

 strong and quite pleasant minty smell when crushed, up to 90—120 cm. high, leaves small 

 and sessile, among the dominant plants, 2740-2875 m., Dec. 18, 1935, R. G. Turrall 56; 

 ibid., comm. W. F. Baldock 1. Southern Highlands Province, Iringa District: E. Mufindi, 

 on edge of secondary Myrica-Macaranga mist-forest in open parts of Hyparrhenia-Dissotis 

 grassland patches, locally common, perennial laxly branched herb with pinkish-mauve 

 flowers and strongly mint-scented leaves, 1890 m., Aug. 3, 1933, Greenway 3462. Rungwe 

 District: Rungwe, June 27, 1913, Stolz 1395 (Herb. Kew., Herb. Mus. Brit.). Kyimbila, 

 flowers lilac-blue, 2000 m., Feb. 16, 1914, Stolz 2523 (Herb. Kew., Herb. Mus. Brit.). 

 ? District: Lower plateau N. of L. Nyasa, Thomson s. n. 



NYASALAND: North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common on grassy edges of forest, 

 herb, stems to 80 cm. long, weak, reclining, leaves purplish, pennyroyal-scented, flowers 

 pale purple, 2300 m., Aug. 13, 1946, 17200. 



Calamintha simensis f. flaccida Vatke, Linnaea 37: 327 (1871-1873), based 

 on Schimper 721a from Abyssinia, is possibly synonymous with S. pseudosimensis, 

 but there are no corollas on the specimen at Kew. S. pseudo simensis has been 

 wrongly interpreted as Calamintha simensis by very many authors, e.g. Baker in 

 rhiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 455 (1900), pro majore parte, and Robyns, Fl. 

 Sperm. Pare Nat. Albert 2: 163 (1947). In fact the genuine S. simensis has been 

 twice distinguished from S. pseudosimensis and described as "new," with the 

 wrong idea that S. pseudosimensis was the true S. simensis. 



In true S. simensis the leaves are distinctly [2-5 (-9) mm.] petiolate, partic- 

 ularly noticeably on the flowering shoots, less broadly rounded or even cuneate 

 at base, with the nerves not impressed above; the calyx is smaller, 3-5, rarely 

 to 6 mm. long, with the lower teeth 1-2 mm. long; and, particularly at the throat, 

 less hairy; and, very important, the posticous stamens are reduced to minute 

 staminodes 0.4-0.75 mm. long. True S. simensis occurs in Abyssinia, and on the 

 Ruwenzori range in Uganda and the Belgian Congo, also in Kigezi District of 

 Uganda (Purseglove 2826 in Herb. Kew.). 



The following is the synonymy of S. simensis: 



Satureja sinensis (Benth.) Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4 3A : 303. 

 1896; Ind. Kew. Suppl. 2: 165. 1904. 

 Calamintha sinensis Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12: 230. 1848; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. 5: 455. 1900, pro min. parte. [Based on Schimper, Sect. 2, 999, in Herb. 

 Hook, now at Kewll 



Calamintha cryptantha Vatke, Linnaea 37: 328. 1871-1873; Bak. in Thiselton-Dyer, 



Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 455. 1900. (Based on Schimper 722 ! and 11441) 

 Calamintha parvula S. Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 38: 276. 1908. (Based on Wollaston 



s.n. from Ruwenzori, 3350 m., in Herb. Mus. Brit.!) 

 Calamintha cryptantha Vatke var. mildhraedii Perk. Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr.- 



Exp. 1907-1908 2: 551. 1913; Robyns, Fl. Sperm. Pare Nat. Albert 2: 164. 1947. 



(Based on Mildbraed 1634, not seen; this var. being thus interpreted e. descr.) 



I have not seen the type of Calamintha simensis var. obtusifolia Avetta, Ann. 

 1st. Bot. Roma 6: 61 (1895), and do not know where to place it. 



There is a good deal of variation in S. simensis. C. cryptantha seems to be a 

 robust form with the calyx 3.5-4 mm. long, cleistogamous flowers and two small 

 fertile stamens 0.5 mm. long. 



Gillett 5360 from Abyssinia has apparently fully developed flowers and a 

 calyx 4-5 mm. long. Hairiness varies a great deal. Schimper 107 (1853) has very 

 hairy calyces up to almost 7 mm. long and short petioles 1-2 mm. long; the leaves 

 however resemble in texture those of C. simensis, and the stamen-structure is 

 similar. It may be a hybrid. 



Satureja uhligii Giirke, Bot. Jahrb. 36: 128 (1905), based on Uhlig 517 from 

 the upper forest-limit, 2800 m., above Arusha, Tanganyika Territory, Nov. 1901 



