272 LABIATA (Cooke). [ Plectranthus. 
broad, ovate, acute, coarsely doubly crenate-serrate, the younger 
hispid above with scattered hairs, at length glabrate, punctate, 
pase subcordate, truncate or cuneate ; petioles {-1 in. long ; intlo- 
rescence a lax sparingly-branched panicle 6—9 in. long, often with 
2-4 opposite spreading racemes near the base, sometimes an un- 
branched raceme; verticils} about 6-flowered, distant; bracts 
foliaceous, ovate, acuminate, the lower rather large, reaching 4 in. 
long, becoming smaller upwards ; pedicels slender, up to 3 in. long ; 
fruiting calyx reaching 44 lin. long ; tube nearly glabrous, with a 
reflexed upper tooth ; flowering calyx 2 lin. long, hairy ; upper tooth 
1 lin. long, # lin. broad, ovate, acute; 4 other teeth lanceolate, 
subulate, 2 lower 1 lin. long, connate below, 2 lateral } lin. long ; 
corolla blue, nearly } in. long; tube 3 lin. long, with a spur } lin. 
long at the base on the upper side ; upper lip 2-2} lin. long, 4-lobed, 
2 upper lobes large, suborbicular, 14 lin. broad, 2 lateral lobes 
small, } lin. long and broad, rounded ; lower lip 2 lin. long, 4 lin. 
deep, boat-shaped ; upper pair of stamens 2 lin. long ; lower pair 
3 lin. long ; style a little shorter than the lower stamens; stigma 
equally shortly 2-fid ; nutlets ovoid, 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, brown, 
dull. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 448 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 168 ; Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 1, ii. 322; Benth. Lab. 32 ; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 406. 
Sourn Arrica : cultivated specimen, Gouan! 
Coast ReGion: Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Prior! Swellendam Div. ; in 
woods near Swellendam, Drége! Knysna Div.; in the forest near Yzer Nek, 
Burchell, 5207! and at Doukamma, Drége, 7947 ! George Div. ; near George in 
the forest, Burchell, 6051! Prior! 
Karanart Recion: Transvaal; Lydenburg, Wilms, 1128 ! 
5. P. petiolaris (E. Meyer, Comm. 228); stem herbaceous, 
puberulous ; leaves 11-4 in. long, 1-3} in. broad, broadly ovate, 
subobtuse, coarsely and obtusely toothed, thinly puberulous above 
and on the veins beneath, base cordate ; petioles 3-3 in. long ; in- 
florescence terminal, simple or with 1-2 ascending branches at the 
base ; verticils 4-1 in. apart, 4-6-flowered ; bracts 1-2 lin. long, 3-2 
lin. broad, somewhat rhomboid-ovate, acute, glabrous, ciliolate ; 
pedicels 2-3} lin. long ; fruiting calyx 3-4 lin. long ; flowering calyx 
14-1} lin. long, puberulous or nearly glabrous ; tube 3-1 lin. long, 
campanulate ; upper tooth }-} lin. long and about as broad, broadly 
ovate, subobtuse ; 4 other teeth subequal, subulate from a trian- 
r base; corolla dark red (Wood); tube about 5 lin. long, 
abruptly deflexed at the middle, enlarged above, with a minute 
triangular spur; upper lip about 4 lin. long, erect, pubescent, 
unequally 4-lobed, terminal lobes about 14 lin. long and broad, 
oblong, obtuse, lateral lobes rounded ; lower lip 4 lin. long, 1} lin. 
deep, boat-shaped, obtuse; stamens unequal ; filaments all free, 
glabrous ; style about as long as the stamens ; stigma shortly 2-fid ; 
nutlets } lin. long, subquadrate-ellipsoid, light brown, not shining. 
Eastern Reaton: Pondoland ; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, 
Drége, 4773b! Natal; Coast land, Sutherland! ‘Berea, near Durban, Wood, 
3390! Dumisa, Rudatis, 339 ! 
