440 XCTIII. LABIATvE. 



arranged in large panicles ; bracts ^j in, long, lanceolate, acute, 

 caducous ; pedicels about ^ in. long. Calj^x in flower -^r; in. long, 

 in fruit nearly g in. long, pubescent outside ; upper lip broad, sub- 

 orbicular, entire, reflexed; lower lip with 4 lanceolate acute teeth, 

 longer than the upper lip. Corolla -fV^s '"• -^^ng, pale-pink or flesh- 

 colored, iSTutlets scarcely ^^ ^"- ^'^'^S' broadly ellipsoid, compressed, 

 smooth, brown. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 612 ; Dal/. "& Gibs. p. 204 ; Trim. 

 Fl, Ceyl, V. 3, p. 369; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 360 ; Briquet, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 A, p. 370, 

 fig. 100, T ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 845.— Flowers : Nov, 



(S/ocfe without locality in Herb. Kew. Konkan : Law\ Gujarat: Ahmedabad, 

 Cooke \, Bhival, Woodrow; Neriad, Bhival, Woodrowl — Dcstrib. India (Bengal, 

 Behar, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Java, China, Philippine Islands, Tropical 

 Africa and N. Australia. 



7. PLECTRANTHUS, L Herit. 

 Herbs or undei'shrubs. Flowers usually small in lax (rarely close) 

 paniculate or racemo.se usually few-flowered cymes. Calyx usually 

 2-lipped, enlarged in fruit ; lobes 5, subequal or the upper widest. 

 Corolla 2-lipped ; tube exserted, long or short, straight or decurved, the 

 throat equal or obhquely swollen ; upper lip usually short, broad, 4-fid, 

 recurved ; lower lip much longer, entire, boat-shaped, stipitate or nar- 

 rowed at the base. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate; filaments simple, 

 free ; anther-cells usually confluent. Disk usually enlarged in fruit. 

 Ovary 4-partite ; style subequally 2-fid. Fruit of 4 orbicular ovoid or 

 oblong smooth granulate or punctate dry nutlets ; basal scar small. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropical and Subtropical Asia, Africa, Australia, Polynesia ; 

 species reaching perhaps 100. 



Fruiting calyx indistinctly 2-lipped, shortly subequally 5-tootlied. 



Annual, reaching 2 ft. high ; leaves with short stifif scattered hairs 



beneath 1. P. S^oc/csii. 



Perennial, reaching 5 ft. high ; leaves white-tomentose bcneatli... 2. P. Coetsa. 

 Fruiting calyx distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip broad, rounded 3. P.incanies. 



1. Plectranthus Stocksii, Ifool: f. FL B. L v. 4 (1885; p. 618, 

 Annual, erect, slender, 1-2 ft. high ; stems quadrangular, simple or 

 branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves thinly membranous, 2-4 

 by 1:1^-1-^ ill., ovate, acute, coarsely serrate, gland-dotted, with short 

 scatterecl stilf hairs above and on the nerves beneath, base rounded, 

 truncate or cuneate ; petioles \~2 in. long. Flowers in branched cymes 

 forming a large pyramidal panicle ; bracts at the forks of the cyme 

 minute ; ultimate pedicels filiform, pubescent, often \ in. long. Calyx 

 pubescent, covered with red or orange minute waxy glands, in flower 

 small, -}(y in. long, much enlarged in friat, reaching sometimes when the 

 fruit is fully ripe \ in. long, incurved, striate, obscurely 2-Iipped, with 

 5 subacute teeth. Corolla \ in, long, white with purple spots ; tube 

 broad, straight. Stamens exserted. Nutlets ^'^ in. long, broadly 

 ellipsoid, smooth, yellowish-brown. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v, 12 

 (1899) p. 360. Pkctranthiis Wvjhiii, Grab. Cat. Boml). 1*1. p. 148 (710^ 

 of Benlh.); Dalz. & Gibs. p. 205; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 1. c— 

 Flowers : Sept.-Nov. 



Konkan : H/ncJcs !, Low ! Deccan : Mahableshwar, Cooke\ S. M. Counthv : Belgauu), 

 JRilchir\; P;irva Gh;it, Jiilrhif, 1978!; Casllerock, Coo/,e\; Londa, Woodrow; R;iin- 

 f hat, /yc/Mi ox Balzdl ^- Gih^on. Kanaka: K;ila naddi above Supa, liil>hic, l'.t78I — 

 — DiSTUin. India (VV. Peninsula). 



