500 CII, LABIATA (BAKER). | Renschia. 
41. RENSCHIA, Vatke in Linnea, xlii. 94. 
Calyx campanulate, with two entire orbicular lips, small in the 
flowering stage, in fruit much enlarged, finally splitting down to the 
base into two entire lobes. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, three 
times the length of the calyx; limb bilabiate; upper lip orbicular ; 
lower lip longer, deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate ; 
lower pair the longest; anther-cells short, divaricate, Disk equal. 
Nucules 4, clavate, triquetrous on the inner face, basally attached to a 
small aureole. Style bifid, the upper fork very short. Fruit unknown. 
Endemic and monotypic. 
1. R. heterotypica, Vatke in Linnea, xiii. 94. A much-branched 
undershrub, 14-2 ft. high, with pale slender woody branchlets, finely 
pubescent upwards. Leaves ovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate, glabrous, 
the lower 1-1} in. long and broad, truncate at the base; petiole nearly 
as long as the blade. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme ; pedicels 
short ; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Flower-calyx 4—} in. long, 
pubescent. Corolla purple; tube 4 in. long; lower lip jy; in. long. 
Stamens all four slightly protruded beyond the upper lip of the corolla. 
—Tinnea heterotypica, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69, t. 185, fig. 3. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 4500 ft., Hilde- 
brandt, 1429! 
42, TEUCRIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 1221. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or campanulate, rarely inflated ; teeth 5, 
subequal or the uppermost largest. Corolla-tube usually not longer 
than the calyx; limb bilabiate; upper lip very short; lower longer, 
deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; lower pair longest ; anther- 
cells divaricate, confluent. Disk equal. Style subequally forked at the 
tip. Nucules obovoid, rugose.—Herbs or undershrubs of very various 
habit. Leaves entire or crenate, those that subtend the flowers either 
large and foliaceous, cr reduced to small bracts. Whorls usually 
2-flowered, axillary or forming terminal racemes or heads. 
Species about 100. Cosmopolitan ; concentrated in the Mediterranean region. 
Flowers in axillary whorls all down the stem —. . 1. ZT, Seordium. 
Flowers condensed into globose terminal heads. . 2. 2. Poliuin. 
1. T. Seordium, /inn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xi. DRO. A 
perennial herb, with simple or branched hairy ascending or spreading 
stems. Leaves in many pairs, sessile, oblong, obtuse, crenate, 4-1} in. 
long, hairy or nearly glabrous. Flowers in pairs from the axils 0 
large leaves all the way down the stem ; pedicels as long as the calyx 
Calyx 4 in, long; teeth ovate, equal, as long as the campanulate tube. 
Corolla red, 4 in. ong —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 202; Engl. Hoeh- 
