Plectranthus. | CII. LABIATE (BAKER). 415 
pubescent, oblong, crenate, with an entire cuneate base. Branches of 
the panicle laxer than in P. cylindraceus, the end one 5-6 in. long, one 
or few to a stem ; flowers in dense globose whorls ; pedicels very short ; 
bracts small, ovate, pubescent. Flower-calyx 4!, in. long, densely 
clothed with short white hairs; tube campanulate ; teeth subequal, 
short, deltoid. Corolla hairy, twice as long as the calyx.—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 181; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 127; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 358. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Samen: near Jaja (Dschadseha), 6000 ft., Schimper, 
387, and without precise locality, Schimper, 146! 1925! 
8. P. sanguineus, Jritten in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. ser. 2, Bot. 
iv. 36. A shrub with pubescent woody branches. Leaves developed 
after the flowers, only seen in a young state, subsessile, orbicular, with 
a cuneate base, crenate, pubescent. Inflorescence a very dense short 
terminal racemose panicle; rhachis densely hispid; whorls many- 
flowered, simple; pedicels very short. Calyx campanulate, } in. long, 
densely hairy, exuding (like the bud-scales, corolla and stamens) bright 
red resinous drops; teeth lanceolate, subequal, as long as the tube. 
Corolla } in. long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanje, 6000 ft., 
Whyte ! 
29. P. primulinus, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 292. Stems 
perennial ; branches long, softly woody. Leaves unknown. Inflores- 
cence a short very dense oblong racemose panicle 1}—2 in. long ; cymes 
sessile; pedicels very short. Calyx finally } in. long, densely pilose ; 
tube campanulate ; teeth linear, equal, longer than the tube. Corolla 
pale yellow, pilose, } in. long; tube rather longer than the calyx. 
Stamens reaching the tip of the lower lip of the corolla. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Moero Plateau, south-west of Lake 
Tanganyika, Carson, 36! 
60. P. densus, .V. #. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 12. An under- 
shrub, with erect woody pubescent branches. Leaves unknown. 
Inflorescence a racemose panicle ; branches dense, 1—1} in. long ; bracts 
obovate or oblanceolate, }—} in. long, twice as long as the pedicels. 
Calyx 2-21 lin. long, with 5 subequal lanceolate acuminate teeth. 
Corolla 5 lin. long. 
Mozamb, Dist. (erman East Africa: Higher Plateaux north of Lake Nyasa, 
Thomson ! 
Hl. Py stenosiphon, Luker. An annual, with erect simple 
slender glabrous stems 1-1} ft. long. Leaves long-petioled, mem- 
branous, ovate, crenate, obscurely pubescent, 2-3 In. long ; petiole 
longer than the blade. Inflorescence racemose, moderately dense, 3—4 in. 
long; flowers 5-6 in a whorl; bracts minute ; pedicels short, pubescent. 
Calyx pubescent, .)—,', in. long; tube campanulate; teeth ovate- 
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