250 _s LABIATZ (Brown). | Orthosiphon. 
3} lin. long, subcylindric, enlarged in fruit ; upper tooth # lin. long, 
very broadly ovate, obtuse ; lateral and lower teeth bristle-like, the 
latter 1 lin. long, twice as long as the former; corolla nearly 
4 times as long as the calyx, rose-coloured (Gerrard), pubescent 
with short spreading hairs outside ; tube 84-104 lin. long, slender, 
cylindric, straight ; upper lip 3-3} lin. long, 14 lin. broad, narrowly 
oblong, very shortly 3-lobed at the obtuse apex ; lower lip 3-33 lin. 
long, }—3 lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, boat-shaped ; stamens all 
inserted close together at the base of the lower lip, glabrous, the 
upper pair free, 14 lin. long, lower pair 2 lin. long, their filaments 
connate to half-way up ; stigma entire, scarcely enlarged ; nutlets 
1} lin. long, oblong, obtuse, smooth, light brown. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; in rocky ground near Ingoma, Gerrard, 1239 ! 
14. 0. stenophyllus (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 84); stems 
woody below, 14 ft. (or more?) high, obtusely and rather obscurely 
4-angled, minutely tomentose with branched hairs, very leafy and 
beset with short leafy branchlets ; leaves on the main stems }#-1} 
in. long, 14-43 lin. broad, those on the axillary branchlets smaller, 
all subsessile or very shortly petiolate, narrowly linear-lanceolate to 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire or rarely a few of the 
largest toothed, glabrous above, with a very minutely papillate 
surface, minutely white-tomentose beneath ; veins subparallel, im- 
pressed above, prominent beneath ; inflorescence simple or branched 
at the base; whorls 5-9 lin. apart, 4—6-flowered ; flowering bracts 
very caducous, 6-7 lin. long, 3-34 lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, very glandular, minutely tomentose on the back ; 
terminal 2-3 pairs of bracts flowerless, persistent, 5—11 lin. long, 
13-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, rosy ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, 
pubescent with very short stout jointed hairs; calyx pubescent 
with short jointed hairs mingled with stalked glands; tube 
24-24 lin. long, campanulate, enlarged in fruit; upper tooth 
scarcely | lin. long, 1} lin. broad, broadly rounded, very obtuse, 
sometimes minutely crenulate; lateral and lower teeth unequal, 
3-1 lin. long, bristle-like from a broader base, ciliate ; corolla about 
twice as long as the calyx, rosy (Tyson), lilac (Wood) ; tube 5 lin. 
long, slightly curved near the base, dilated and compressed in the 
upper part, glabrous outside, very minutely pubescent within ; 
upper lip 2-2} lin. long, unequally 3-lobed ; terminal lobe $—} lin. 
long, | lin. broad, suborbicular or transverse, entire or emarginate, 
reflexed at the sides ; lateral lobes very small, rounded, reflexed ; 
lower lip 13-2 lin. long, boat-shaped, 3-1 lin. deep, obtuse, 
pubescent outside ; stamens very much exserted, unequal ; upper 
pair inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, 44—7 lin. long, their 
filaments free, flattened, ciliate on both margins at the base ; lower 
pair inserted at the base of the lower lip, 34-5} lin. long, exceeding 
the upper pair, their filaments variously united, sometimes for }—3 of 
their length, at others quite to the apex, glabrous ; stigma slightly 
