464 MISS L. 8. GIBBS ON THE 
across and 1:5 em. long, the length of the peduncle in the flower- 
ing stage is from 3:5—5:5 em. long, the bracts are +6-7 mm. 
long; the calyx is +3 mm. long and 3 mm. broad at the base of 
the lobes, the anterior calyx-lobes are 3 mm. long and 1 mm. 
broad, the posterior 3 mm. long and 3 mm. broad; the corolla is 
7 mm. long to the end of the anterior lobe and the tube is 
exserted for about 2 mm. ; the anthers and filaments are +3 mm. 
long and the style and stigma 5 mm. long. 
A small tree with spreading crown, densely covered with dark 
green pubescent leaves and small flat cymes of white flowers 
with mauve lip. 
CLERODENDRON MYnICOIDES, R. Br. 
Matopo Hills, old Kaffir lands. Fl. Oct. 282. 
Distrib. Widely distributed in Tropical Africa, Natal. 
LABIATS. 
OCIMUM OBOVATUM, Æ. Meyer. 
Matopo Hills, veld, general. Fl. Oct. 102. 
Distrib. Upper Congo, German East Africa, South Africa. 
A decumbent perennial; white flowers tinted mauve. 
MoscuosMa RIPARIUM, Hochst., forma. 
Matopo Hills, veld and kopjes, common. g 9. Sept. 3. 
Distrib. Angola, British Central Africa, Mozambique District, 
Transvaal, Natal. 
A shrub, 14-2 m., with rigid branches; usually flowers before 
the leaves, but in shady situations they were found simultaneous. 
The racemes are axillary only, and very much smaller than the 
type, especially the d. 
PLECTRANTHUS FLORIBUNDUS, JN. E. Br. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Sept. 9. 
Distrib. Swaziland, Natal. 
Shrub, with cane-like branches, flowering before the leaves. 
The flowers are deep orange-yellow, borne in dense secund 
opposite racemes towards the apex of the leafless shoots. The 
var. longipes, N. E. Br., with laxer racemes, not secund, smaller 
and lighter yellow flowers, is rather widely distributed in South 
Tropical Africa, but this is apparently the first record for the 
type. 
