410 CU. LABIATE (BAKER). [ Plectranthus. 
36. P. spherophyllus, Baker. Stem slender, simple, thinly 
hairy. Leaves long-petioled, cordate-orbicular, with 3-4 broad deep 
teeth on each side, membranous, glabrous, the lower 1-1} in. long and 
broad. Panicle racemose, very lax, terminal, } ft. long; central whorls 
3—4-flowered ; pedicels reaching J} in. long. Fruit-calyx } in. long, 
glabrous ; tube campanulate ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube; 
2 lateral short cusps; 2 lower longer cusps. Corolla $ in. long; lower 
lip oblong-navicular, rather shorter than the tube. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar? Kirk ! German East Africa: Usaramo; Dar-es- 
Salaam, Kirk ! 
37. P. microphyllus, Baker. Perennial, with siender erect 
simple firm obscurely pubescent stems, 1 ft. long. Leaves small, dis- 
tinctly petioled, orbicular, crenate, cuneate and entire at the base, 
membranous, slightly pubescent. Inflorescence racemose, long, very lax ; 
whorls many-flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Fruit-calyx ; in. 
long; tube campanulate; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube; lower 
longer, lanceolate. Corolla } in. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Magila, 1000 ft., Kirk! 
38. P. paucicrenatus, Mranchet, Sert. Somal. 56. Stems herb- 
aceous, clothed with white hairs. Leaves petioled, suborbicular, deeply 
inciso-crenate, with only 2-8 teeth on each side, laxly lanate, whitish 
beneath. Inflorescence a lax racemose panicle; bracts deciduous. 
Calyx minutely pubescent, as long as the pedicel; upper tooth ovate ; 
4 lower acute. Corolla } in. long, scarcely twice the length of the 
calyx, pubescent. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Reroil. 
Nearly allied to P. madagascariensis, Benth., which, as it occurs in Arabia Felix, 
Mauritius and Natal, will most likely be found in Tropical Africa. 
39. P. herbaceus, Brijuet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 179. An erect 
annual, with branched fragile glabrous stems 1-3 ft. long, Leaves 
shortly petioled, ovate, membranous, crenate, 1-2 in. long, glabrous 
above, obscurely pubescent beneath. Panicles terminal on the main 
stem and branches, made up of many ascending forked scorpioid elon- 
gated cymes; pedicels very short. Fruit-calyx glabrous, } in. long; 
tube eampanulate; upper lip orbicular; lateral small, deltoid; lower 
lanceolate, as long as the upper. Corolla twice as long as the calyx.— 
Germanea herbacea, Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 861. 
. ~jet 
Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Huilla, at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5906 - 
5614. 
40, P., bongensis, Buker. An annual herb, with slender erect 
branched glabrous stems 2-3 ft. long. Leaves oblong, acute, petioled,. 
crenate, membranous, glabrous, the lower 2—3 in. long. Inflorescence 
a lax narrow panicle 6-9 in. long; cymes short, compound ; pedicels 
short. Calyx } in. long; tube campanulate; lateral lobes oblong 
