264 LABIAT& (Brown). | Syncolostemon. 
Var. 8, dissitiflorus (N. E. Br.); stems 16-30 in. high ; leaves entire, elliptic- 
lanceolate or sometimes suborbicular, more numerous or more crowded on the 
short axillary shoots than in the type; panicle lax, 4~7 in. long, 2-33 in. broad ; 
calyx-teeth usually somewhat spreading or recurved ; terminal lobe of the upper 
lip of the corolla 1-14 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, obcordate-oblong or sub- 
quadrate, notched at the apex, less glandular on the back than in the type ; nutlets 
14 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with a thickened puckered rim at the base, white on 
the basal }, light brown above, shining. S. dissitiflorus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 54, 
Eastern Recton: Pondoland ; between St. Johns River and Umsikaba River, 
Drége, 4749! Var. 8B: Natal ; near Durban, Drége! plain between Umlaas River 
and Durban Bay, Krauss, 145! coast land, Sutherland! Inanda, 1800 ft., 
Wood, 52! 
4. §. concinnus (N. E. Br.); stem rather thickly beset with 
numerous slender suberect leafy branches, with indumentum of 
scattered very minute branched tuft-like hairs, brownish ; leaves 
2-2 in. long, obovate-oblong or elliptic, rounded at the apex, shortly 
cuneate into a slender petiole 4—1 lin. long, entire or some of those 
on the main stem with a few small teeth towards the apex, with 
very minute stellately branched hairs on both sides and densely 
glandular, of a brownish-olive when dried ; racemes in a corymb- 
like panicle 4—5 in. long and broad, with 2-flowered whorls 4—5 lin. 
apart ; bracts (except the lowest leaf-like pair) caducous, about 1 lin. 
long, ovate, acute, apiculate, concave ; calyx-tube 2 lin. long, cam- 
panulate, shortly pubescent on the nerves outside, glabrous within, 
ciliate at the mouth ; teeth subulate from a broad base, 4 equal and 
? lin. long, the dorsal one rather more deeply separated from them 
and 1 lin. long; corolla-tube 4-4} lin. long, glabrous, obliquely 
truncate at the mouth, forming the shortly 3-lobed upper lip with 
the middle lobe 1-14 lin. long, oblong, slightly notched at the 
truncate apex ; lateral lobes smaller, rounded; lower lip 1} lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad, transverse, truncate, ciliate along the front 
margin; stamens far exserted, unequal, with the lower (united) 
pair 4 in. long, much exceeding the upper pair. 
get Recion: Transvaal; Elandspruit Mountains, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 
5. 8. ramulosus (E. Meyer, Comm, 231); plant 2 ft. or more 
high ; stems obtusely 4-angled and grooved, minutely and somewhat 
velvety pubescent, bearing numerous short leafy shoots on the lower 
part; leaves (including the very short petioles) 2-4 lin. long, 
14~2 lin. broad, elliptic, obtuse, cuneately narrowed into the petiole, 
glabrous above, thinly and very minutely pubescent beneath, densely 
_gland-dotted ; panicle narrow, 6-8 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, with 
ascending branches }-1} in. apart; whorls 6-flowered ; bracts 
caducous, about 34 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, broadly ovate, 
cuspidate-acuminate, concave, thinly and minutely puberulous ; 
pedicels }-} lin. long, pubescent; calyx-tube 23-3 lin, long, 
cylindric, scaberulous-pubescent outside, glabrous within ; upper 
tooth 1-1} lin. long, deltoid, acute ; lateral and lower teeth equal, 
