232 LABIATA (Brown). | Beciwm. 
thinly puberulous beneath; flower-whorls 3-5 lin. apart, 4—6- 
flowered ; bracts falling away when the flowers are in very young 
bud, $—3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, often forming a small tuft at 
the apex of the spike-like raceme ; pedicels }—3 lin. long, puberu- 
lous ; calyx-tube 1-1} (in fruit 2) lin. long, campanulate, white- 
puberulous and glandular outside, glabrous within; dorsal tooth 
4 (in fruit 1) lin. long, very broadly rounded or subtruncate, 
minutely apiculate ; lower lip truncate and densely white-ciliate at 
the sides, with 2 bristle-like teeth }—} lin. long, contiguous at the 
base, then diverging ; corolla 2-2} lin. long, thinly puberulous on 
the lips, glandular; tube 1} lin. long and nearly as broad at the 
mouth, compressed-funnel-shaped, straight ; upper lip with 4 short 
obtuse lobes, with the lateral much broader and more rounded than 
the others ; lower lip elliptic, concave, obtuse ; stamens very much 
exserted, spirally coiled, subequal, all free ; upper pair inserted near 
the base of the corolla-tube, 4 lin. long, glabrous, with a rather 
long linear hairy tooth at the bend of the filaments ; lower pair 
inserted at the base of the lower lip, glabrous. Ocimum angusti- 
folium, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 37. O. filiforme, Guerke in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vi. 556. O. polycladum, Brig. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2” sér. ili, 982. 
KataHart Region: Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, Burke! Zeyher, 1356! 
hills near Pretoria, Rehmunn, 4272! Kirk, 45! Bolus, 10848! hills near Rusten- 
berg and near Woodstock, Miss Pegler, 1023! Collins, 57! Marico District, Holub ! 
Daspoort, Miss Leendertz, 155 ! Hartebeeste Nek, near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 774 ! 
near Warm Bath, Bolus, 122f2! Kudus Poort, Rehmann, 4614 ex Guerke. British 
Bechuanaland ; Baralong Territory, Holub! 
The calyx is covered with glands, which, when boiled in water, swell, turn 
white and have the appearance of very minute pearl-like papilla. 
3. B. burchellianum (N. E. Br.) ; a woody much-branched shrub, 
growing to 3 ft. in height; branches whitish-puberulous ; leaves 
subfasciculate at the nodes, }-} in. long, 3-1} lin. broad, sub- 
spathulate-oblanceolate, obtuse, tapering into a short petiole at the 
base, longitudinally folded, rather thick, densely white-puberulous, 
sometimes glabrous above; whorls 6-flowered, }—} in. apart; 
pedicels 1-1} lin. long, puberulous; calyx 14-2 lin. long and 
campanulate in flower, 3-34 lin. long and somewhat tubular in fruit, 
whitish-puberulous outside, glabrous within; upper tooth orbicular- 
ovate, apiculate; lower lip with the obliquely truncate sides 
projecting beyond the base of the lower teeth into short minutely 
denticulate ciliate lobes ; lower teeth } lin. long, subulate ; corolla 
rose-pink ; tube about 2 lin. long, glabrous; upper lip 1-1} lin. 
long, with 4 subequal obtusely rounded lobes, pubescent outside ; 
lower lip 1} lin. long and about as broad, suborbicular, obtuse, 
concave, glabrous ; stamens 4—44 lin. long ; upper pair dilated near 
the base into a broad flattened retrorse densely ciliate tooth, other- 
wise glabrous ; lower pair adnate to the corolla-tube ; nutlets rather 
more than 1 lin. long, oblong, very pale brown, glabrous, smooth. 
