Tan. 6792. 
PLECTRAN THUS retipvvs. 
Native of Eastern Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Lapratz.—Tribe OctmormpEZx. 
Genus Prectrantuvs, L/her ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1175.) 
Priecrrantuus (Isodon) fetidus; elatus, robustus, dense villosus, caule crasso 
obscure 4-gono, foliis amplis petiolatis late ovatis subacutis grosse crenatis 
basi rotundatis v. truncatis, petiolo crasso, floralibus deciduis, spicis dense 
Janatis elongatis angustis inclinatis, verticillastris approximatis multifloris, 
floribus subsessilibus, calyce infra medium 5-fido lobis subequalibus lanceo- 
latis acuminatis, corolla pubescente, tubo brevi exserto decurvo, labio superiore 
brevi 2-lobo recurvo lateralibus minutis rotundatis, inferiore scapheforme 
antheris exsertis. 
P. feetidus, Benth. Lah. p 35; et in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 65 (Species in F7. 
Austral, pretermissa). 
Ocimum fetidum, Banks MSS. 
This very striking plant was accidentally overlooked by 
Mr. Bentham when preparing the “ Flora Australiensis,” 
though it was published originally by himself in his “Genera 
et Species Labiatarum,” and subsequently in De Candolle’s 
**Prodromus.”’ ‘The fact is, that it is an exceedingly rare 
plant, and until the specimens here figured were received, 
it was known only from a single individual gathered by Sir 
Joseph Banks at Endeavour Bay in tropical Australia, 
during Capt. Cook’s first voyage, and preserved in the 
British Museum Herbarium. : 
The genus Plectranthus contains nearly seventy species, 
all natives of the Old World, several of which are prominent 
features in Himalayan scenery. Several have been figured 
in this work, but none handsomer than P. fatidus—P. 
Forskahlii, t. 2086; P. carnosus, t. 2318; P. ternatus, 
t. 2460; and P. coleoides, t. 5841. — 
P. fetidus was so named from the odour of the plant 
when bruised, I assume, as it has no smell when fresh, and 
it is far from offensive when crushed. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1884, 
