304 XCVI. LABIATA. 
Racemes terminal, simple or branched. Floral leaves bract-like, deciduous. 
Calyces often coloured.—5 species, from Caffraria and Natal. 
4, HOSLUNDIA, Vahl. 
Calyx tubular, shortly 5-toothed, with subequal teeth, in- 
flated and berry-like in fruit. Corolla-tube straightish, ex- 
serted, the upper lip shortly 3-4-fid, lower somewhat longer, 
concave. Two back stamens short, without anthers ; two front 
fertile. Style shortly 2-fid. Disk glandular. Nuts concealed 
in the fleshy calyx.— DC. Prod. xii. p. 54. 
Small shrubs, with much-branched inflorescence.—H. decumbens, Benth., 
from Delagoa Bay, is our only species. 
5. PLECTRANTHUS, L’Hér. 
Calyx at first bell-shaped, 5-toothed, in fruit enlarged, either 
declinate straight incurved or inflated, with equal teeth or va- 
riously 2-labiate ; or erect, tubular or bell-shaped, equally 5- 
toothed. Corolla-tube exserted, gibbous or spurred on the 
upper side at base, then declined, bent back or straightish, the 
throat equal or rarely inflated ; upper lip 3-4--fid ; lower entire, 
mostly longer, concave. Stamens 4, declinate, the lower pair 
longer ; filaments free, toothless ; anthers reniform, with con- 
fluent cells. Style shortly 2-fid—DC. Prod. xii. p. 55. 
Herbs or shrubs, with terminal, simple or branched, racemose inflores- 
cence ; the cymules laxly few-flowered.—Several South African species, all 
Eastern. 
6. HZOLANTHUS, Mart. 
Calyx ovate-bellshaped, truncate, with obsolete teeth, the 
throat nude within ; in fruit contracted at the mouth, cireum- 
scissed at base. Corolla-tube exserted, bent down beyond the 
calyx, dilated upwards ; the upper lip bluntly 4-toothed ; lower 
entire, longer, concave. Stamens 4; filaments free, toothless. 
Style shortly 2-fid. Disk glandular. Nuts roundish, com- 
pressed.—DC. Prod. xii. p. 80. 
Herbs, with somewhat fleshy leaves of small size. Inflorescence laxly 
panicled.— ZZ. parvifolius, Benth., our only species, occurs near Natal. 
7. PYCNOSTACHYS, Hook. 
Calyx ovate, subequal, with 5 subulate, spinous teeth. Co- 
rolla-tube exserted, bent down; upper lip 4-toothed ; lower 
entire, concave. Stamens 4; filaments free, toothless. Style 
subulate, minutely 2-fid. Nuts roundish, smooth.—D0C. Prod. 
xil. p. 83. 
Erect, rigid herbs, with densely-spiked, terminal inflorescence, the flora 
leaves bract-like and shorter than the calyx.—P. reticulata, Benth., our 
only species, occurs at Natal. 
