254 . LABIATA (Brown). [Orthosiphon. 
19. 0. teucriifolius (N. E. Br.) ; perennial ; stems numerous from 
a woody rootstock, “in dense tufts” (Wood), 6-10 in. high, rather 
slender, terete, tomentose with minute branching hairs ; leaves very 
shortly petiolate, }—-? in. long, 3-4 lin. broad, lanceolate, linear- 
lanceolate, linear or more rarely ovate, acute or subobtuse at each 
end, revolute along the margins, pubescent above, white-tomentose 
with minute branching hairs beneath; racemes 1—4 in. long, with 
3-6 distant 4-6-flowered whorls ; lower bracts 2—5 lin. long, like 
the leaves, persistent, upper deciduous; pedicels 1—2 lin. long, 
tomentose ; calyx-tube 15-1? (in fruit 24) lin. long, campanulate, 
tomentose with minute branching (often mingled with long simple) 
hairs outside, puberulous within ; upper tooth suborbicular, minutely 
apiculate ; lateral and lower teeth subulate, the latter longer than 
the rest; corolla twice as long as the calyx, tomentose on the 
lower lip outside, otherwise glabrous, pink or purple ; tube 3-34 lin. 
long, 1} lin. broad, curved below the middle, laterally flattened, 
truncate at the mouth, with a recurved 4-lobed margin or upper 
lip; lobes unequal } lin. long; iower lip 1-1} lin, long, boat- 
shaped, straight ; stamens exserted, equal, about equalling the 
lower lip of the corolla; upper pair inserted below the middle of 
the tube, 2}-34 lin. long, with the filaments free, ciliate on one 
margin; lower pair inserted at the base of the lip, with the 
filaments united almost to the apex, 1-1} lin. long, glabrous; 
stigma slightly thickened, shortly bifid ; nutlets rather more than 
1 lin. long, oblong, slightly compressed, smooth, shining, brown. 
Ocimum teucriifolium, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 66 ; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. 
Cap- und Natal. 130; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 41. Hemizygia 
teucriifolia, Brig. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, 369, and 
in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genev. ii. 247. 
Var. B, galpiniana (N.E. Br.) ; calyx-tube 2-24 lin. long, with the pubescence 
on it chiefly consisting of long simple hairs, the minute branched hairs mostly 
confined to the base of the tube and nerves ; otherwise as in the type. Hemizygia 
galpiniana, Brig. in Bull. Herb, Boiss, 2” sé+. iii. 993. 
Coast Recion : King Williamstown Div. ; near Pirie, 4000 ft., Sim, 107! 
Katanart Region: Transvaal ; without precise locality, Sanderson! Var. B: 
Transvaal ; eastern slopes of Saddleback Mountain, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1217 ! 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland ; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Bawr, 558! Griqualand East ; 
eastern slopes of the Zuurberg Range, 4500 ft., Z’'yson, 1561! Natal; at the foot 
of Table Mountain, Arauss, 448! on a grassy hill at Illovo, Wood, 1877! near 
Curry’s Post, near Howick, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 3567! and without precise 
locality, Sutherland! Zululand ; on a grassy hill at Entumeni, Wood, 3964 (Natal 
Herb. 783)! 
20. O. Pretorie# (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 81); perennial, 
producing from a woody rootstock numerous slender branching 
stems 4-10 in. high, with internodes }-1 in. long, pubescent ; 
leaves }—? in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, 
obtuse or subacute, cuneately tapering into a very short petiole, 
entire, often folded longitudinally, varying from nearly glabrous to 
thinly puberulous on one or both sides, usually more or less ciliate ; 
