Erythrochlamys. | Cli. LABIATE (BAKER). 349 
2, ERYTHROCHLAMYS, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 222. 
Calyx very accrescent ; tube campanulate; upper lip broad, with 
decurrent margins, finally very large and wrapped round the other 
teeth, which are deltoid-acuminate. Corolla-tube slightly exserted 
from the calyx, nearly straight; limb bilabiate; upper lip 4-lobed ; 
lower ovate, entire, shorter than the upper. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 
filaments free, toothless, very long, much exserted; anthers 1-celled. 
Disk subequal. Style apparently subentire. Nucules crustaceous, 
smooth, included in the persistent calyx. 
Endemic and monotypic, 
1. E. spectabilis, Giirke in Hngl. Jahrb. xix. 223. A branched 
undershrub, pubescent upwards. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, 
3-4 in. long, about 1 in. broad, crenate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 
scabrous above, pubescent beneath. Racemes simple, terminal ; whorls 
simple, 6-flowered ; pedicels } in. long ; bracts orbicular, acute, pubes- 
cent, 4-1 in. long. Calyx clothed like the pedicels with long branched 
hairs; tube 1 in. long; upper tooth ovate, mucronate, subcordate at 
the base, } in. long in the flowering stage, finally j in. long, red and 
wrapped round the others. Corolla pubescent. Posticous filaments 
bearded at the base.—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 348, t. 43, fig. A—J. 
Nile Land. Somaliland; in swamps near the Dagatto Torrent, Giika. 
British East Africa : Plateau between Ulu and Ukamba, Fischer, 500. 
3. PLATYSTOMA, P. Beauv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gens Plant. ii. 
1172. 
Calyx deflexed in fruit; tube campanulate ; limb deeply bilabiate, 
with two subequal oblong lips, the upper not decurrent, with a small 
tooth on each, Corolla-tube short, funnel-shaped ; limb bilabiate ; 
upper lip 4-toothed, lower scarcely longer, slightly concave, entire. 
Stamens 4, declinate; filaments free, dilated at the base; anthers 1- 
celled. Disk glandular. Style shortly bifid at the apex. Nucules 
ovoid, minutely reticulated.— Habit of Ocimum. 
One species also in Tropical Asia. 
Corolla not much longer than the calyx 
Corolla much longer than the calyx 
1. P. africanum, P?. Beauy.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 47. An 
erect aanual, with a much-branched slender slightly pubescent, stem, 
1-2 ft. long. Leaves petioled, ovate, crenate, membrancnsy 8 is tly 
pubescent, 1-2 in. long. Racemes moderately dense, se in. long : 
flowers about 10 in a whorl; bracts as long as the whorls; pe ice s 
short. Calyx js in. long. Corolla pale lilac, not much longer than 
the calyx ; lips short. Stamens not exserted.—P. Beauv. | 2 war ; 
95, fig. 2; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 149 ; Briquer Va " . ° ‘ 
Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 75. P.flaccidum, Benth. ; Hook. f. 5 rit. Ind. 
iv. 611. Ocimum flaccidum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. u. Led. 
1. P. africanum. 
2. P. buetinerianum. 
