Orthosiphon. | LABIATA (Brown). 255 
whorls 2-8 in a simple raceme, }-1 in. apart, 4—6-flowered ; bracts 
persistent, }—} in. long, like reduced leaves, usually acute ; pedicels 
1-2 (in fruit up to 3) lin. long, pubescent ; calyx-tube 24 (in fruit 
up to 34) lin. long, tubular, much enlarged in fruit, pubescent with 
spreading hairs; upper tooth about 1 lin. long and broad, sub- 
orbicular, obtuse, lateral and lower teeth bristle-like, the lower 
about 1-1} lin. long ; corolla twice as long as the calyx, puberulous, 
pinkish-white (Wood) ; tube 5-6 lin, long, rather slender, straight, 
slightly enlarged at the upper half; upper lip 2—2} lin. long, erect, 
oblong, shortly 3-lobed at the apex, middle lobe twice as long as 
the lateral, obovate or somewhat obcordate, slightly emarginate ; 
lower lip 1-1 in. long, concave, obtuse ; upper stamens included, 
inserted 2 up the tube, with free filaments 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; lower stamens inserted at the base of the lower lip and 
nearly equalling it in length, 14-1? lin. long, with their filaments 
united for ? of their length, glabrous ; nutlets } in. long, oblong, 
glabrous, brown. S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 385, and 1903, 405. 
O. natalensis, Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 82. 
‘Kaanari Reaion : Transvaal ; without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 
5776! Rietfontein, Conrath, 1060! near Pretoria, Wilms, 1151! near Johannes- 
burg, Rand, 877 ! Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6063 ! Ommanney, 13 ! Miss Leendertz, 
1721! Bronkhorst Spruit, Janse, 59! 
Eastern Recton :; Natal ; onthe Drakensberg Range near Coldstream, Rehmann, 
6918! near Newcastle, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 3420! on the Biggars Berg, near 
Glencoe, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 4756! Kuntze ex Guerke. Zululand; without 
precise locality, Gerrard, 1219 ! 
21. 0. Wilmsii (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 81); perennial, 
4-1 ft. high ; stems several branching from a woody rootstock, 
simple or with erect branches, square, puberulous with minute 
recurved hairs along the angles only; leaves spreading; petiole 
1-3 lin. long ; blade 1-1} in. long, 3-7 lin. broad, ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute or obtuse, broadly or narrowly cuneate at the base, 
subentire to acutely serrate, minutely puberulous on the veins 
beneath, otherwise glabrous on both sides ; racemes simple, 14—5 in. 
long ; whorls }-} in. apart, 6-flowered ; bracts reflexed, 3-14 lin. 
long, ovate, acute or apiculate, subpetiolate or sessile, glabrous, 
ciliate, often bordered with purple ; pedicels 1—2 lin. long, pubes- 
cent ; calyx pubescent or subtomentose outside, glabrous within, pur- 
plish-brown ; tube 1—} (in fruit }-}) in. long, tubular-campanulate, 
with distinct nerves, especially in fruit ; upper tooth }—j lin. long, 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse ; lateral and lower teeth bristle-like, the 
lower 2-1 (in fruit up to 1}) lin. long; corolla-tube 2-3 lin. long, 
slightly exceeding the lower calyx-teeth, straight, puberulous out- 
side ; upper lip 14-2 lin. long, with 4 small rounded lobes ; lower 
lip 13-2 lin. long, boat-shaped, obtuse ; stamens all free, curved, 
glabrous ; upper pair 1 lin. long, inserted in the throat of the tube 
and just exserted from it or included; lower pair 1} lin. long, 
inserted at the base of the lower lip and shorter than it; style 
very winutely bifid or emarginate at the clavate apex ; nutlets 
