354 CII, LABIATZ (BAKER). [ Moschosma. 
3. M. multiflorum, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 49. Perennial, 
suffruticose. Stems densely pubescent. Leaves petioled, cordate- 
ovate, membranous, deeply crenate, 3-6 in. long, pubescent on both 
sides. Flowers subunisexual, forming a lax panicle often 1 ft. long, 
about 12 in a whorl; staminate whorls less dense than the pistillate ; 
bracts minute; rhachis densely hairy. Calyx hairy, } lin. long; teeth 
small, subequal, ovate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx.—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 179; Giirke in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 349. 
Plectranthus multiflorus, Hochst. ex Benth. l.c. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia: between Sana and Ferrefera, Schimper, 776 ; near 
Jelejeranne, Schimper, 1688! Shire, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 9! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 686! Parkyns! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 8720! 
4. M. riparium, Hochst.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 49, Shrubby, 
reaching a height of 10-12 ft. Stems densely hairy. Leaves petioled, 
cordate-ovate, deeply crenate, membranous, 3—6 in. long, more or less 
hairy on both sides. Flowers subunisexual, many in a whorl, forming 
dense panicles 1 ft. or more long; rhachides hairy ; pistillate flowers 
forming much more dense spikes than the staminate. Calyx $ lin. 
long; teeth small, ovate. Corolla 4 in. long in the staminate flowers, 
smaller in the pistillate.—M. myriostachyum, Benth. in Gen. Plant. 1. 
1173. 
Mile Land, British East Africa: among dry voleanic rocks in an empty valley 
near Lake Nakuro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6801! Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 7879 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Welwitsch, 5477 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, 
Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa: Morambala Mountain, Waller! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland; near the Murchison Falls, Meller! near Blantyre, Buchanan, 
159! Last! banks of a stream betwen Blantyre and Matope, Scott! Mount Chirad- 
zulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! Meller! Masuka Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte, 300! 
Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! 
Also Natal. Doubtfully distinct from M. multiflorum, 
6. ACROCEPHALUS, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ii. 1173. 
Calyx-tube long, compressed, gibbous at the base; limb bilabiate ; 
upper lip entire or denticulate ; lower entire, emarginate or 4-toothed. 
Corolla small; tube short; limb bilabiate ; upper lip shortly 4-lobed ; 
lower scarcely longer, entire, nearly flat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
declinate, scarcely exserted ; filaments free, filiform, not appendiculate ; 
anthers l-celled. Disk a small anticous gland. Style shortly bifid at 
the stigmatose tip. Nucules ovoid or oblong, smooth.—Perennial or 
annual herbs. Leaves opposite or congested into whorls, sessile or 
petioled, usually linear or lanceolate. Whorls of flowers congested into 
dense globose heads, which are bracteate at the base, often by coloured 
