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Orthosiphon. ] Cll. LABIAT# (BAKER), 375 
green beneath, glabrescent or pilose. Raceme lax, 2-3 in. long ; whorls 
6-flowered ; bracts small, lanceolate; pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx 
very variable in size, 4-1 in. long; tube campanulate, pilose; upper 
tooth ovate, lower subulate. Corolla white, protruding } in. from the 
throat of the calyx; lips small. Stamens slightly exserted.—De Wild. & 
Durand, Ill. FI. Congo, i. t. 37. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mossanze, Descamps; Mtowa, on Lake 
Tanganyika, Descamps. 
38. O. schinzianus, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 173. An erect 
annual, with a simple erect densely pubescent stem. Leaves subsessile, 
2-3 in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, dentate, green and slightly 
pubescent above, grey and densely pubescent beneath. Raceme short, 
lax in the lower half; axis densely pubescent; upper bracts ovate, 
purple, persistent, very pubescent ; pedicels } in. long. Calyx densely 
pubescent, ,-} in. long; upper tooth ovate, the others lanceolate. 
Corolia-tube as long as the calyx; lips small. Stamens distinctly 
exserted. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Amboland ; Oshiheke, Schinz, 
45! 
Very near O. bracteosus, Baker. 
39. O. bracteosus, Baker. Annual. Stems slender, branched, 
hairy, erect, 1-3 ft. long. Leaves lanceolate, serrate, 2-6 in. ngs 
sessile or shortly petioled, hairy on both sides. Racemes long, lax ; 
flowers 4-6 in a whorl; rhachis hairy; pedicels short ; upper bract 
large, ovate, reddish, membranous, persistent. Calyx finally } in. long; 
upper tooth orbicular, shorter than the tube; lower with large cusps. 
Corolla-tube half as long again as the calyx. Stamens much exsertetl.— 
Ocimum bructeosum, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 41; Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 
495 ; Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boiss, ii. 122 ; Vatke in Linnea, x]. 177; 
Hemizygia bracteosa, Briquet in Ann. Jard. Gen. 1. (1898) 248. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: sandy soil at Mahina, Lecard, 174, 219 (ex Briquet) ; 
and without precise locality, Heudelot, 396! Niger Territory: Nupe, common, 
Barter, 946! ; 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Duga, Holst, ae 
Portuguese East Africa : near Lupata, Kirk / Rios de Sena and Boros, wre ear me 
Peters (ex Vatke). British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nannasi, amen ’ . 
Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 74! 
Gen. ii. (1895) 242. An 
Leaves shortly petioled, 
on both surfaces, 
40. O. Marquesii, Briguet in Ann. Jard. 
undershrub, with hairy, often violet branches. green 
round-ovate, 1 in. long, obtuse, pubescent and gr i 
slightly rugose beneath, crenate. Whorls simple, 6-floweret, vorming 
long racemes ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; lower bracts Flower. 
upper large, round-ovate, violet, forming a persistent ceent upwards: 
calyx }-J in. long, densely pilore at, the base, glabrescent upwards 
upper tooth small, ovate, lower teeth setaceous. Corolla vio 7 ’ Pe nen 
5 in. from the throat of the calyx; tube shortly exserted. ta 
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