Otostegia. | CII. LABIATZ (BAKER). 495 
2. O. Steudneri, Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1868, 
682. A shrub, with slender woody spineless branches clothed with 
whitish tomentum. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, subsessile. 
entire, 1-14 in. long, tomentose especially on the lower side. Flowers 
many in a whorl, sessile ; bracts lanceolate, not spinous, half as long as 
the calyx. Calyx-tube densely pubescent, 1} in. long; limb with 7 dis- 
tinct teeth and a produced orbicular lobe on the lower side. Corolla 
produced beyond the calyx-limb.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
370, 
‘Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Ghaba Valley, 9700 ft., Steudner, 1398 ; aud 
without precise locality, Schimper, 26! 
3. O. tomentosa, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 198. A shrub, with 
woody virgate pubescent branchlets, without any spines. Leaves 
shortly petioled, very smal], thick, oblong, obtuse, crenate, white- 
tomentose beneath, with much-raised veins. Flowers few in a whorl, 
sessile ; bracts not spinous. Calyx-tube, funnel-shaped, densely pubes- 
cent, $ in. long, with a small orbicular lobe on the lower side, and 
several crenations round the rest of the throat. Corolla not seen.— 
Beck in Paulitschke, Harar, 458. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Province of Wojerat, Petit / Somaliland ; near Harar, 
on Mount Haquin and at Lake Haramaja, Hardegger & Paulitschke. 
4. O. scariosa, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 522. A shrub, with 
slender square pubescent branches, without any spines. Leaves thin, 
distinctly petioled, broadly ovate, conspicuously crenate, the largest 
1 in. long, broadly cuneate and entire at the base, green and incon- 
spicuously pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath. Whorls laxly 
disposed, subtended by fully-developed leaves; bracts many, subulate, 
not spinous. Calyx-tube densely pubescent, J-} in. long; upper lip 
small, ovate, entire ; lower orbicular, obscurely crenate, } in. broad. 
Corolla much protruded beyond the calyx-lip.—A. Rich. Tent. Fi. 
Abyss. ii. 198. O. moluccoides, Jaub. & Spach ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 777. 
Clinopodium fruticosum, Forsk. F). Aigypt.-Arab. 107. 
Nile Land, Abyssinia: Enderta district ; in stony mountainous places, near 
Chelicut, Quartin-Dilion § Petit, 10! and without precise locality, Sade. 
Also in Arabia and Midian. 
5. O. repanda, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 522. A shrub, with 
pubescent branches, without any spines. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
ovate, crenate, 1-2 in. long, cuneate and entire at the base, green and 
obscurely pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath. Whorls 
humerous, many-flowered, subtended by fully-developed leaves ; pract s 
many, subulate, not spinous. Calyx-tube pubescent, ih in. Jong; 
upper lip very small, ovate ; lower orbicular, crenate, + in me . 
Corolla protruded beyond the lower lip of the calyx.—A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii, 198; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. At 370. Schueinfurth 
ia : Gebel Shellal, in the Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 
143) const te ennieres and 4000 ft., Bent! Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 4300 ft.., 
