248 LABIATA (Brown). | Orthosiphon. 
subequal, 1 lin. long, the lateral flat and deltoid-subulate, the lower 
more or less bristle-like, ciliate ; corolla minutely puberulous on the 
upper side of the tube outside and within, and on the back of the 
upper lip, otherwise glabrous, drying dark brownish-orange ; tube 
sometimes scarcely exceeding the calyx-teeth, sometimes exserted 
14 lin. beyond them, 3-4} lin. long; upper lip formed by the very 
oblique mouth of the tube, 2-2} lin. long, very obtusely 3-lobed at 
the apex, with the middle lobe larger than the lateral, }—3 lin. long, 
1-13 lin. broad; lower lip 2-2} lin. long, boat-shaped, obtuse; stamens 
not exceeding the lower lip, all exserted from the tube and subequal 
or the upper pair included and scarcely reaching to the base of the 
lower pair ; upper pair with free filaments inserted near the base of 
the corolla-tube, flat, linear or linear-lanceolate, densely ciliate on 
both margins ; lower pair inserted at the base of the lower lip, 1-24 
lin. long, with their filaments free or united only at the very base, 
glabrous. 
KatanHart Reoaion: Transvaal; Nel Spruit, Rogers, 4740! Devils Kantoor, 
Bolus, 9742! 
11. O. bracteosus (Baker in Dyer, FI. Trop. Afr. v. 375) ; plant 
3-2 ft. high, simple or branched ; branches thinly pubescent ; leaves 
sessile, 14-3 in. long, }-} in. broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 
cuneately narrowed at the base, slightly and shortly serrate, thinly 
and minutely puberulous on both sides; raceme 14-5 in. long, of 
5-12 distant 6-flowered whorls ; upper and terminal bracts }—% in. 
long, 2-5 lin. broad, often without flowers in their axils, persistent, 
purple-red, ovate-lanceolate, ovate or orbicular-ovate, acute to very 
obtuse ; lower bracts very deciduous, not seen; pedicels about 
1 lin. long, puberulous ; calyx-tube 14 (in fruit nearly 2) lin. long, 
campanulate, puberulous ; upper tooth }~1 lin. long, broadly ovate, 
obtuse ; lateral and lower teeth bristle-like, the lower 1]-14 (in | 
fruit up to 2) lin. long; corolla white, minutely glandular outside, 
slightly and minutely puberulous above the insertion of the upper 
stamens within ; tube 3—4 lin. long, compressed, gradually enlarging 
from the base to the truncate mouth, which forms the upper lip 
and is very shortly and obtusely 3-lobed ; lower lip 1-1} lin. long, 
deeply concave, obtuse ; stamens exserted ; upper pair 34—4 lin. 
long, inserted below the middle of the tube, free, abruptly curved or 
kneed, but not toothed at the base, slightly pubescent ; lower pair in- 
serted at the base of the lower lip, united nearly or quite to their apex, 
21 lin. long ; stigma clavate, entire ; nutlets 1-1} lin. long and brodd, 
compressed-subglobose, with a keel on each side and one down the 
back on the apical part, slightly and coarsely reticulate, light brown. 
Ocimum bracteosum, Benth. Lab. 14, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 41; 
Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. x. 61. Hemizygia bracteosa, Brig., and 
H. Junodi, Briq., and var. Quintasii, Brig. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. 
Genev. ii, 248, 249 ; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2” sér. iii. 661. 
Eastern Recion: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 20! Junod, 61, 235, Bolus, 9741! 
