262 LABIATA (Brown). [ Syncolostemon. 
Panicle with its short branches and flowers all crowded 
into a thick dense spike-like mass ; corolla-tube 
S-10 lin, Jone... ee gs Se ... (7) densiflorus. 
Calyx-tube 4 lin. long; lower lip of corolla 4 5$ lin. 
LONG. .; a a ed pas Has ... (6) rotundifolius. 
1. S. lanceolatus (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 77); stems 2-3 
ft. high, erect, square, minutely and somewhat harshly puberulous ; 
leaves with very short leafy shoots in their axils; petiole }—5 lin. 
long ; blade }-1# in. long, 3-3 (rarely 4-5) lin. broad, narrowly or 
linear-lanceolate, or the broader oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
cuneately tapering at the base, rather thick, minutely adpressed- 
puberulous on both sides ; inflorescence 9-12 in. long, 4—8 in. broad, 
paniculate or corymbosely paniculate, with several pairs of simple 
or branched branches; whorls 3-9 lin. apart, never more than 
2-flowered ; bracts caducous, 13-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous ; pedicels {-1} lin. long, 
puberulous ; calyx-tube 2 lin. long, campanulate, becoming ovoid 
and somewhat constricted at the mouth in fruit, minutely pubes- 
cent outside, glabrous within and without woolly hairs on the teeth ; 
teeth all alike, 3-1} lin. long, narrowly deltoid and acuminate or 
subulate from a deltoid base ; corolla white ; tube exserted, straight, 
3-31 lin. long, dilated above, glabrous outside, with a transverse 
pubescent band within, just above the insertion of the upper stamens ; 
upper lip 24-3 lin. long, unequally 3-lobed, pubescent on the back, 
ciliate ; middle lobe suborbicular, subquadrate or transverse, notched 
or obtuse ; lateral lobes broadly rounded ; lower lip 14-2 lin. long, 
very deeply concave, very obtuse, puberulous outside, ciliate ; 
stamens exserted much beyond the lower lip, slightly unequal ; 
upper pair inserted just above the middle of the corolla-tube, with 
free flattened filaments, slightly ciliate at the base ; lower pair 
inserted at the base of the lower lip, 3-5 lin. long, with the filaments 
united nearly or quite to the apex, glabrous ; nutlets 14-1} lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse, with a deep rim or puckered frill or crest at the 
basal end, light brown or grey green, often with a slender line down 
the back and one on each side, shining. 
Var. 8, grandiflorus (N. E. Br.); calyx-tube 3-34 lin. long, tubular- 
campanulate ; teeth 14-13 lin. long, subulate or narrowly deltoid-subulate, some- 
what white-woolly at their margins ; corolla white ; tube 44-5 lin. long, glabrous 
outside ; upper lip 34 lin. long; stamens scarcely or not at all exceeding the lower 
lip of the corolla, with the lower pair 2 lin. long; otherwise as in the type. 
Var. y, Cooperi (N. E. Br.); calyx with white woolly hairs at its mouth and on 
the margins and inner side of the teeth; otherwise asin the type. S. Cooperi, 
Briq. in Herb, Boiss. 2e sér. iii. 979. 
Kauanarti Recion: Var. y: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2895 ! 
Eastern Recion : Griqualand East ; near Clydesdale, Schlechter, 6616 ! Mount 
Malowe, 4000 ft., Z'yson, 2770! and.in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.- 
Afr. 1294! Var. B: Natal ; grassy hill near Enon, Wood, 1882! Var. y: Natal ; 
between Fark Kop and Camperdown, Rehmann, 7686! grassy hill near Umkomaas, 
Wood, 1994! and without precise locality, Sanderson! Cooper, 1151! 
