352 Cll. LABIATH (BAKER). [Geniosporum. 
6. G. paludosum, Baker. An erect perennial, with branched 
slender pubescent stems, 1-2 ft. long. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 
crenate, 1-2 in. long, thinly pubescent on both sides, Whorls forming 
dense cylindrical terminal racemes, 1—3 in. long; lower bracts, as in 
G. madagascariense, large, ovate, white ; upper small, pubescent ; pedicels 
short. Fruit-calyx pubescent, 4 in. long; tube oblong; teeth all 
deltoid. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; lips short. Stamens 
shortly exserted. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : Uganda, common in grassland, Wilson, 67 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Unangu to Lake Shirwa, Johnson, 
69! Zambesiland, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan, 
129! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Masuka Plateau, Whyte! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 719! 
7. G. scabridum, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 165. An erect 
herb, with ascending branches, clothed with violet or ferruginous hairs. 
Leaves small, shortly petioled, round-ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, 
crenate, clothed both above and below with short rigid hairs, bullate 
on the under surface. Racemes dense; pedicels 4 lin. long; bracts 
suborbicular, white at the base, green or purplish on the margin. 
Calyx pubescent, violet; tube campanulate, } lin. long; teeth shorter 
than the tube; upper ovate; 4 lower very small, deltoid. Corolla pro- 
truding 1 lin. from the throat of the calyx. Stamens exserted; upper 
filaments villous at the base. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; Lulua River, Pogge, 347. 
8. G. affine, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 197. Stems suffruticose, 
branched, clothed with reddish hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly 
ovate, acute or subobtuse, 1} in, long, 1 in. broad, cordate or round 
at the base, crenate, pubescent above, subvillous beneath. Racemes 
simple, dense ; bracts sessile, pubescent, the lower orbicular, the uppe? 
ovate ; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Flowers 
Yocrz im. long. Calyx campanulate, not pubescent. Corolla-tube 
rather longer than the calyx. Stamens exserted. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Uganda, Stuhlmann, 1351, Lendu Plateau, 
4500 ft., Stuhlmann, 2758. 
5, MOSCHOSMA, Reichb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1173. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or subunisexual. Fruit only slightly 
declinate, but little accrescent ; tube campanulate ; teeth less unequal 
than in Ocimwm, the upper not decurrent. Corolla-tube short ; limb 
bilabiate ; lobes short, the lower nearly flat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
declinate ; filaments filiform; anthers |-celled. Disk glandular. Style 
bifid. Nucules ovoid, smooth, rather compressed.— Annual or perennial 
herbs. Leaves petioled, crenate. Whorls many-flowered, forming 
panicled racemes. Flowers very small.—Basilicum, Moench, Meth. 
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