Plectranthus. | LABIATAE. 343 
Flowers — cymose or capitate, in terminal panicles or thyrsi, or 
rarely axillary 
A considerable saihiaeit genus, chiefly Asiatic, with a few African and American species. 
. fragrans, Vent. — DC. Prod. XI, 666, var. pleni iflora. — Suf- 
See not exce wt 2 ft. in height, propagatin y underground 
runners, Leaves broadly ovate or subcordate, shortly acuminate, repando- 
dentate, hispid above, pubescent underneath, on rather long cae with 
st alee glands. Flowers in a con ntracted and subsessile terminal cyme. 
Jalyx 5-cleft, , exceeded by the corolla tube, its lobes fan Corolla 
white with a rose e blush, filled or double, its lobes obovate- obtuse. 
‘oadsides i Nuuan and near abandoned habitations, as on the hill back of 
Punahou where it covers several acres of ground to the exclusion 0 rything else 
ers fragrant Of early introduction; a native probably a, but naturalized i 
Brazil and some W. Indian isla Other oe species of this genus: C. fallax, 
nds. 
Lindl., C. inerme, R. Br., C. Siphonanthus, R. 
OrperR LXV. LABIATAE. 
Flowers irregular or rarely almost regular. Calyx persistent, usually 
5-toothed. Corolla with a distinct tube and 4 or 5 lobes, usually forming 
1 erect ovule in each lobe. Style hi sake from the centre, with 
2 short stigmatic lobes at the top. Fruit losed in the calyx, separating 
into 4 small seed-like nuts.. No pees — Herbs or rarely shrubs, 
frequently aromatic. Leaves opposite or whor led. Flowers in opposite 
mes or rarely solitary, either forming axillary clusters, those 0 opposed 
axils being called vartcibeatie: false whorls or whorls, or in terminal 
spikes or racemes or spike-like panicles or thyrsi, or in loose panicles. 
A large Orde: tributed over every part of the globe. 
Stamens 2, the Sinniosite pranched, one branch with a mae cell, 
ct one 3. Salvia. 
1. Plectranthus. 
, erect or spreading - 
Style or style-branches clavate; lower lip of corolla longer than 
oe * 
Style bifid; calyx open a is nucules fleshy 6. Phyllostegia. 
Style ema: ate or eae lyx closed in fruit; nueules dry 5. Haploestachys. 
Style-branches subulate: 
Lower lip of corolla shorter than the upper; nucules fleshy. 7. Stenogyneé. 
age ee Pa of corolla not shorter than the upper: 
a dilated at the throat, diffusely pubescent inside the 
geen 2. Sphacele. 
— not dilated, the tube ‘with a distinct annulus near 
e base 4. Stachys. 
1. eRe L Herit. 
Calyx campanulate when with flower, 5- toothed, much longer when 
with fruit, declinate or erect, with the teeth equal or bilabiate or the 
