284 LABIATA! (Cooke). [ Plectranthus. 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East; Zuurberg Range, Tyson, 1764! near 
Kokstad, 5200 ft., Tyson, 1793! Natal; Camperdown, Rehmann, 7701! Inanda, 
Wood, 558! Zululand; Entumeni, Wood, 3997 ! 
31. P. hirtus (Benth. Lab. 38); procumbent, hispid; leaves 
3-1 in. long, 2—3 in. broad, ovate, obtuse, crenate, coarsely hispid, 
cuneate at the base, thick; petioles 4-8 lin. long, densely hispid ; 
inflorescence an elongate subsimple raceme reaching 6 in. long ; 
verticils 6—-16-flowered, not pedunculate ; pedicels reaching 2 lin. 
long, hairy ; bracts minute, deciduous; fruiting calyx 3 lin. long, 
incurved, striate ; flowering calyx 14 lin. long, hairy, campanulate ; 
upper tooth ovate, acute; other 4 teeth lanceolate, acute, 2 lower 
longer and narrower than the lateral; corolla 4 in. long; tube 
broad, 3 lin. long, deflexed at about the middle; upper lip 14 lin. 
long, oblong, shallowly 2-lobed at the apex, lobes rounded ; lower 
lip 3 lin. long; stamens exserted; nutlets globosely ovoid, }: in. 
long and broad, smooth, yellowish brown. P. madagascarensis, 
Benth. Lab. 37 (ewcl. syn.). Ocymum hirtum, Herb. Banks. ex 
Benth. l.c. 38. 0. tomentosum, Thunb. Prodr. 96 et Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 448. 
Coast Recton: Uitenhage Div. ; various localities, Drége! Prior! Schlechter, 
2599! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Earn Cliff, 150 ft., Galpin, 6466! Bathurst Div. ; by 
the Bushmans River, Zeyher, 898! 1359! Albany Div.; on the rocks of Zwart- 
water Poort, Burchell, 3397 ! 
Katanart Recion: Orange River Colony and Transvaal, Burke! Transvaal ; 
near Lydenburg,, Atherstone | ; 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; around Kentani, Miss Pegler, 1516! Pondoland ; 
between St. Johns River and Umsikaba River, Drége! Natal; near Durban, 
Drége! Peddie! Krauss, 75! near Mooi River, Wood, 4444! 
32. P. nummularius (Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™ sér. iii. 
1072); a procumbent herb; stems hairy with long slender hairs ; 
leaves 1-1} in. long, as broad or sometimes broader than long, 
with short stout hairs on both sides, obtuse, upper portion crenate, 
truncate or shortly cuneate at the base; petiole 1 in. long, hairy ; 
racemes reaching 4} in. long, rhachis pubescent; verticils about 
6-flowered, not pedunculate ; bracts small, ovate, deciduous ; 
pedicels 2 lin. long, pubescent ; flowering calyx 1 lin. long, hairy ; 
upper tooth ovate, slightly more than 4 lin. long; 4 other teeth 
lanceolate ; lateral teeth scarcely $ lin. long; lower teeth nearly 
equal to or slightly longer than the lateral ; corolla pale purple 
(Wood), 4 lin. long; tube 1} lin. long, deflexed below the middle 
and slightly enlarged above ; upper lip 1 Jin. long and as broad as 
long, pubescent and glandular, with 2 rounded strongly ciliate lobes 
at the apex and 2 short rounded lateral lobes ; lower lip 2 lin. long, 
} lin. deep, boat-shaped, separated from the upper lip by a broad 
sinus; stamens included or scarcely exserted. 
Eastern Recion : Natal; Camperdown, Rehmann, 7702 ! Zululand, Indulindi, 
2000 ft., Wood, 3980! 3981! 
