266 -  LABIATA (Brown). | Syneolostemon. 
4-angled, grooved down the sides, very shortly tomentose ; leaves 
small, petiolate, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic or orbicular, acute or 
obtuse and apiculate, entire or slightly toothed, densely gland- 
dotted, thinly and minutely pubescent or glabrous on both sides ; 
petiole }—3 lin. long ; blade 2-6 lin. long, 14-5 lin. broad ; panicle 
a dense oblong spike-like mass 1}-5 in. long, 14-24 in. in diam., with 
short erect branches ; bracts caducous, about 3 lin. long, 2-22 lin. 
broad, orbicular, abruptly cuspidate, thinly and minutely pubescent 
or glabrous, with a few glands on the back, often woolly-ciliate Hl 
pedicels }—} lin. long, pubescent ; calyx unequally 5-toothed ; tube 
34 lin. long, tubular, thinly pubescent outside, glabrous within ; 
upper tooth 1-1} lin. long, }—-2 lin. broad at the base, whence it 
gradually tapers to an acute point, not decurrent on the tube; 
lateral teeth 14-2} lin. long, connate in pairs for about } of their 
length, with the connate part deltoid and the free tips bristle-like or 
subulate, thinly ciliate or glabrous ; corolla very much exserted, 
glabrous, pink, crimson or white; tube 8-10 lin. long, gradually 
enlarging upwards, straight, compressed; slightly arched behind 
the apex; upper lip 24-3 lin. long, unequally 3-lobed ; terminal 
lobe about # lin. long, 2 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse ; lateral lobes 
much smaller, rounded ; lower lip reflexed, 13-3} lin. long, boat- 
Shaped, obtuse, slightly and minutely ciliate; stamens much 
exserted, slightly unequal, at length (at least in some specimens) 
recurved or spirally coiled under the lower side of the corolla ; 
upper pair inserted about 34 lin. above the base of the corolla, 
8-10 lin. long, their filaments free, glabrous ; lower pair inserted 
at the base of the lip, 4-5 lin. long, their filaments united to the 
apex, glabrous; stigma minutely bifid; nutlets 13-1} lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse, compressed, light brown, shining. Dietr. Syn. Pl. 
iii, 385 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 54. 8; densiflorum, Hochstetter 
in Flora, 1845, 67 ; Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap- und Natal, 131. 
Coast Recion: King Williamstown Div.; Buffalo Mountain, near King 
Williamstown, Tyson, 606! East London Div. ; Panmure, Mrs. Hutton ! Kaffraria, 
Mrs. Barber! Dugmore! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 386! Tembuland ; 
Bazeia Mountain, Baur, 121! Griqualand East ; mountains around Clydesdale, 
3000 ft., Tyson, 2545! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 861! 
Zuurberg, Wood, 1984! Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Umtsikaba 
River, Drége, 4744c! Natal; near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 96! Inanda, 
Wood, 6! 17! Inyangwine, Wood, 3017 ; Maritzburg, Rehmann, 7530! Coastland, 
Sutherland ! Dumisa, Rudatis, 282! 
The recurving and coiling of ‘the stamens is very evident in some specimens, 
and not at all so in others, and probably has some connection with the fertilisation 
of the plant or is a sexual condition. 
V. PLECTRANTHUS, L’Hérit. 
Calyx campanulate when flowering, 5-toothed, enlarged: in fruit, 
declinate or erect, usually 2-lipped ; teeth subequal or the upper 
widest. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube exserted, long or short, straight or 
