416 CLL. LABIAT.E (BAKER), { Plectranthus. 
lanceolate, subequal. Corolla | in. long; tube very slender, three 
times the length of the calyx. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; near the River Shire, 
Kirk! Zambesi (?), Kirk ! 
62. P. betonicefolius, Buker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 72. Stem 
herbaceous, perennial, 2—3 ft. long ; branchlets clothed with white down. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate, the lower 15-2 in. long, crenate, green 
on the face, clothed with white pubescence beneath. Peduncle long, 
naked. Inflorescence a dense simple cylindrical racemose panicle, 3 in. 
long ; axis densely pilose; bracts ovate, cuspidate. Calyx iz in. long, 
densely clothed with purple woolly hairs; teeth subequal, deltoid. 
Corolla pubescent, 6-7 lin. long; tube much longer than the calyx, 
dilated in the upper half; upper lip small; lower large, very concave. 
Stamens included, 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, south of Lake 
Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Carson, 64,79! Nutt! 
63. P. horridus, Baker. A coarse herb, with the habit of Urtica 
dioica. Stems erect, simple, with spreading white bristly hairs. Leaves 
ovate, membranous, pubescent, deeply crenate, 2-3 in. long; petiole 
long, clothed with bristles like those of the stem. Inflorescence race- 
mose. !ax, simple, 3—4 in. long ; flowers about six in a whorl ; rhachis 
coarsely pubescent; pedicels unequal, some longer than the calyx. 
Calyx ,;-} in. long; teeth ovate-lanceolate, subequal. Corolla 4 in. 
long ; tube scarcely longer than the calyx.—Germanea horrida, Hiern, 
Cat. Afr, Pl. Welw. i. 863. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 5537 ! 
5613 ! 
64. P. pubescens, Baker. An erect perennial, with branched 
densely pubescent stems. Leaves distinctly petioled, broadly ovate, 
about 1 in. long, acute, shallowly cordate at the base, deeply crenate, 
membranous, green and densely pubescent on both surfaces. Whorls 
lax, arranged in a long racemose panicle; bracts minute; pedicels 
pubescent, { in. long. Fruit-calyx pubescent, 4 in. long; teeth small, 
subequal, deltoid or lanceolate-deltoid. Corolla } in. long. Stamens 
included. ° 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Malosa, 4000- 
6000 ft., Whyte? Nyika Plateau, 7000 ft., Whyte ! 
65. P. nyikensis, Baker. A much-branched undershrub, with 
woody pubescent branches. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly ovate or 
suborbicular, ?-1 in. long, obtuse, broadly rounded at the base, firm, 
greenand pubescent on both surfaces. Cymes few flowered, umbellate, 
arranged in a moderately long lax racemose panicle; bracts small, ovate, 
foliaceous ; pedicels densely pubescent, i in. Jong. Calyx densely 
