Plectranthus. ] LABIAT& (Cooke). 273 
6. P. arthropodus (Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, 2™ sér. iii. 1073) ; 
an erect herb; branches green, glabrous or minutely puberulous ; 
leaves 4 in. long, 23 in. broad, broadly ovate, acute or subacuminate, 
attenuated into a rather long shortly puberulous petiole, mem- 
branous, thin, puberulous on the nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous, 
regularly crenate ; petiole 14 in. long, articulated with the blade, 
the articulation leaving (after the fall of the leaf) a prominent cir- 
cular scar ; racemes moderately slender, about 24 in. long ; verticils 
2-6-flowered ; bracts 14-12 in. long and broad, ovate, subpersistent ; 
pedicels }-1 lin. long; flowering calyx scarcely 14 lin. long, cam- 
panulate, shortly puberulous ; upper tooth the largest, 1 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate ; other 4 teeth about } lin. long; corolla-tube 1-1} 
lin. long, with a small spur } lin. long on the back ; upper lip # 
lin. long ; lower lip 1} lin. long. 
KaaHari Reaion : Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6151! 
7. P. floribundus (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 12); stems 
erect, 2-4 ft. high, stout, striate, pubescent, leafless at flowering 
time ; leaves 2-3 in. long, }—1 in. broad, oblong, obtuse, scabridly 
pubescent on both sides, base rounded or subcordate ; inflorescence 
a leafless panicle 12-18 in. long, of numerous simple or branched 
pubescent racemes 1-24 in. long, floriferous nearly to the base ; 
verticils about 2-flowered ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, pubescent ; pedicels as long as the bracts or 
slightly longer ; fruiting calyx 34-4 lin. long, campanulate, scabrid- 
pubescent and glandular ; flowering calyx 24 lin. long ; upper tooth 
14-1} lin. long and broad, suborbicular, apiculate, ciliate ; 4 other 
_ teeth subequal, 14-1 lin. long, $ lin. broad at the base, tapering to 
an acute apex, ciliate; corolla nearly ? in. long, bright golden 
yellow, pubescent; tube 44 lin. long, abruptly deflexed at } its 
length from the base, enlarged towards the mouth ; upper lip 2} lin, 
long, erect, 4-lobed, terminal lobes about ? lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
suborbicular, lateral lobes erect, 2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse ; lower 
lip 44 lin. long, 2 lin. deep, subacute, boat-shaped ; upper pair of 
stamens 2 lin. long ; lower pair 3-3} lin. long ; style filiform, glabrous, 
as long as the stamens; stigma minutely 2-fid. Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 2489. 
Kananart Reaion: Transvaal ; margin of a wood at Upper Moodies and on the 
bank of a river on the De Kaap Valley Flats, near Barberton, 3000-4000 ft., rare, 
only 2 plants seen, Galpin, 591! Shiluvane, Junod, 574! 
Eastern Recion : Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 646! 3843! 
The variety longipes in Tropical Africa. 
8. P. saccatus (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 227) ; suffruticose, 
sparsely hairy on the stem and leaves ; branches spreading horizon- 
tally, reaching 1 ft. long; leaves thick, rather succulent, laxly 
hairy or nearly glabrous, {-1} in. long, }-1} in. broad, deltoid or 
rhomboid, coarsely toothed, truncate or cuneate at the base ; petioles 
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