Plectranthus. | LABIAT& (Cooke). 275 
Coast Recion : Alexandria Div.?; Zour Flats forest, T'yson, 1765! 
Eastern Recion : Griqualand East ; between the Insizwa Range and the River 
Umzimhlava, Krook, 1698 ! 
_ Var. 8, grandifolia (T. Cooke); less hairy ; leaves larger, 33-44 in. long, 
24-3 in. broad irregularly and deeply coarsely crenate-serrate ; upper leaves 
beneath the panicle with very short petioles ; lower leaves with petioles 2 in. long. 
Eastern Recton: Griqualand East; woods near Kokstad, 5100 ft., Z'yson, 
1793! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. 1344 ! 
ll. P. ciliatus (E. Meyer, Comm. 227); stem and _ branches 
usually villous ; leaves petiolate, 2-3 in. long, 14-13 in. broad, 
ovate, acute, crenate-serrate, cuneate at the base, sparsely hairy 
above and on the nerves beneath with short rather stiff hairs ; 
petioles }-1} in. long, villous; inflorescence a simple or slightly 
branched panicle ; verticils about 6-flowered, rather distant ; 
peduncles very short or 0; pedicels reaching 3 lin. long ; fruiting 
calyx 4 lin. long, campanulate; upper tooth 1} lin. long, ? lin. 
broad, ovate, acute, ciliate ; other 4 teeth lanceolate, acute, ciliate, 
2 lateral 1 lin. long, 2 lower 1% lin. long, connate at the base ; 
corolla + in. long or more; tube 3 lin. long, nearly straight or 
slightly detlexed at the very base, obtusely saccate above the base ; 
upper lip 4 lin. long and as broad as long, obovate-cuneate ; terminal 
lobes about 1 lin. deep, rounded ; lateral lobes small, obtuse ; lower 
lip 4 lin. long ; nutlets obtusely ovoid, ? lin. long, $ lin. broad, 
brown. 
Coast Reaion: Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3580! Kitching! 
Atherstone, 17! 
Kananart Reaion ; Swaziland ; Embabane, 4700 ft., Bolus, 12247 |! ; 
Eastern Ructon : Transkei; Kentani, edge of woods near water, Miss Pegler, 
352! Tembuland; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Bawr, 37! Pondoland; near St. Johns 
River, Drége, 4777! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 63! 
12. P. villosus (T. Cooke in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 378, not of 
Sieber) ; suffruticose; stems erect, stout, pubescent; leaves 
1 in. long, sessile, obovate-oblong, obtuse, obscurely crenate, 
densely finely villous on both sides, base cuneate ; inflorescence 
of several villous dense spike-like racemes forming a branched 
panicle ; verticils many-flowered, villous, closely packed; bracts 
3 lin. long and as broad as long, broadly ovate, acute, 
villous on both sides; pedicels about 1 lin. long; flowering 
calyx 1 lin. long, densely villous; upper tooth larger than the 
others, } lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subacute, densely ciliate ; other 
4 teeth subequal or the 2 lower smaller, oblong, much shorter 
than the upper tooth, densely ciliate ; corolla 2} lin. long, lilac 
(Wood); tube 14 lin. long, deflexed about the middle, enlarged 
above the deflexion ; upper lip ? lin. long; lower lip 1 lin. long, 
} lin. deep, boat-shaped ; upper pair of stamens 1} lin. long ; lower 
pair 1} lin. long; style as long as the lower stamens; nutlets 
scarcely 4 lin. long and nearly as broad as long, angular, pale brown, 
quite smooth and shining. ; 
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