280 LABIAT (Cooke). [ Plectranthus. 
Coast Recon: Stockenstrom Div. ; near the Kat River and slopes of the Kat 
Berg, Zcklon! Eastern Frontier, MacOwan, 500! : 
CENTRAL RecGion: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3139! and without 
precise locality, Miss Bowker ! : 
Eastern REGION: Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 376! Tembuland; Bazeia, 
Baur, 187! 
22. P. Thunbergii (Benth. Lab. 37) ; a procumbent plant ; stems 
slender, more or less puberulous; leaves opposite, 4—} in. long, 
almost as broad as long, subfleshy, orbicular-obovate, cuneate at the 
base, decurrent into a long slender petiole, with deeply crenate 
margins, glabrous, gland-dotted ; inflorescence a simple raceme ; 
verticils laxly 4—6-flowered, not pedunculate ; bracts }-1 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute; pedicels reaching 3 lin. long, filiform ; 
fruiting calyx 3} lin. long, becoming glabrous, giand-dotted ; 
flowering calyx 14 lin. long ; upper tooth } lin. long, ovate, acute ; 
other 4 teeth deltoid, acute, the lateral } lin. long, 2 lower 1 lin. 
long; corolla white with crimson lines (Mrs. Monteiro); tube 
reaching 44 lin. long, straight, scarcely enlarged above ; upper lip 
up to 3}—4 lin. long, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex ; lower 
lip reaching 34 lin. long ; upper pair of stamens 2 lin. long; lower 
pair 3 lin. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 67 ; Schinz in Mém. Herb. 
Boiss. x. 60. Ocymum racemosum, Thunb. Prodr. 96. 
Coast Recron : Knysna Diy. ; in the forest at Doukamma, Drége ! Uniondale 
Div, ; near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5150! Uitenhage Div.; near 
Uitenhage, Schlechter, 2501! Prior! woods of Adow and by the Zwartkops River, 
Zeyher, 121! Albany Div. ; in a wooded kloof west of Grahamstown, Burchell, 
3579! Victoria East Div., Cooper, 399 ! 
EasTERN REGIon: Tembuland ; between the Bashee River and Morley, Drége, 
4779! Griqualand Fast ; in rocky places near streams round Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 2802! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1296! Delagoa Bay, 
Mrs. Monteiro ! 
23. P. strigosus (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 229); stem pro- 
cumbent, rufous-pubescent, often rooting at the lower nodes ; leaves 
opposite, variable in size, $1} in. long, $—-1} in. broad, orbicular, 
obscurely crenate, fleshy, hispid above, rufous-pubescent on the 
nerves beneath ; petioles variable in length from 1 lin. to 1} in. 
long ; inflorescence a simple (rarely branched) raceme; verticils 
4—6-flowered, not pedunculate ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, ovate-lanceo- 
late ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, slender, pubescent ; fruiting calyx 4 lin. 
long, campanulate ; flowering calyx 14 lin. long, campanulate ; upper 
tooth ? lin. long, ovate, acute; other 4 teeth lanceolate, acute, 
lateral }—? lin. long, lower twice as long; corolla 5 lin. long; tube 
2 lin. long, nearly straight ; upper lip 3 lin. long, oblong-obovate, 
Sere at the apex ; lower lip 2 lin. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 68. 
Var. 8, lucidus (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 68) ; leaves more glabrous, distinctly 
crenate ; stem and veins of the leaves rufous-pubescent. P. lucidus, Burchell ex 
Benth, le, 68, 
Coast Recion: Alexandria Div. ; Oliphants Hoek Forest, Ecklon! Var. B: 
Bathurst Div. ; Riet Funtein, Burchell, 3924! 
