ICOKES PLANTARUM. 45 



3-6 poll, longis |— 1^ poll, lafcig, basi sa3pius longe anguBtatis. PeduU' 

 cull axillares v. terminales erecti 1-6 poll, longi, pedicelli ^-1 poll, 

 longi. Fructus |-| long, longus, pericarpio osseo lasvi. — D. Oliver. 



Fig. 1. Flo-sver, enlarged, 2, fetaTnens. 3, Pistil. 4. Fruit-carpeL 



Plate 1257. 



SYNCOLOSTEMON DENSIPLORUS, Bentlu 



Labiate, Tribe Ocimoide^. 

 S. densiflorns, Bentli, in E. Mey, Coimn. PL Afr. 231 and in DO. 



Prod. xil. 54, foliis ovatis acutia integerrimis v. rarius subdentutis, 

 thyrso denuo spicifornii, calycibus rectis Tiscoso-villosis, corolla} tubo 

 caljce plus duplo lougiore. 



Hai5. South Africa, Natal district, Brege^ Kraiiss^n.QQ^ Sutherland^ 

 Mrs. Huttonj from the coast up to 1,000 ft. elevation. 



Frutex erectas 2-pedalis v. altior, rarais strictis molliter pubescenti- 

 bus. Folia opposita in axillis sa?pius fasciculata, breviter petiolata, 3-4 

 lin. V. majora fere seraipollicom longa, acuta, coriacea, cano-puberula 

 V. demum glabrata, costa prommula venis obscuris. Verticillastri e 

 cjmis oppositis dense spiciformibus in thyrsum densum spiciformom 

 terniinalem 3-5-pollicarem conferti v. inferiores parum dissiti. Folia 

 floTolia caulinis conform! a nisi minora, superiora parva bracteeeformia. 

 Cahjx ad 3 lin. longus, lobis 4 inferioribus longiuscule setaceis, sunimo 

 latiore breviore leviter decurrente. CoroUce tubus rectus, superne 

 ampliatus, 7-8 lin. longus, labiis brevibus latis patentibns, superiore 

 breviter lateque 4-dentato, inferiore integerrimo concaro. Stamina 

 exserta, declinata, filamcnta inferiora fere ad apicem connata antheris 

 brevissime stipitatis, superiora breviora, libera. Antherariim loculi 

 divaricati confluentes. Discus h/pogymis lobatus, postice ovaria 

 superans. SUjhis exaertus lobis stigmatosis brevibus subulatis. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Dii^k and ovary. , . , , 



A grave error has UDfortunatelj crept into the published generic character 

 of Si/ncohsteinon, the UJiion of the two lower filaments upon which the name was 

 founded being icrnored. The descriptions of Drege's Labiatae were drawn up bj 

 myself and sent to E. Meyer who revised them and published them in his Commen- 

 taria, and wherever no eiror had been detected were copied into the Prodromus. 

 Whether the error now discovered originated with me, or was the result of verbal 

 alterations in copying out here or in Germany, it is impossible now to ascertain.— G. 

 Ekxiham". 



