Erythrochlamys.\ cii. labiat/k (baker). ;:549 



2. ERYTHROCHLAMYS, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 222. 



Calyx very accrescent ; tube campanulate ; upper lip broad, with 

 decurrent margins, finally very large and wrapped round tlie other 

 teeth, which are deltoid-acuminate. Corolla-tube slightly exserted 

 from the calyx, nearly straight; limb bilabiate; upper lip 4-lobed; 

 lower ovate, entire, shorter than the upper. Stamens i, didynauious '; 

 filaments free, toothless, very long, much exserted ; anthers 1 -celled. 

 Disk subequal. Style apparently subentire. Nucules crustaceous, 

 smooth, included in the persistent calyx. 



Endemic and monotypic. 



1. E. spectabiliSy Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 223. A branched 

 undershrub, pubescent upwards. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, se.ssile, 

 3-4 in. long, about 1 in. broad, crenate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 

 scabrous above, pubescent beneath. Racemes simple, terminal ; whorls 

 simple, 6-flowered ; pedicels \ in. long ; bracts orbicular, acute, pubes- 

 cent, \-\ in. long. Calyx clothed like the pedicels with long branched 

 hairs ; tube i in. long ; upper tooth ovate, mucronate, subcordate at 

 the base, \ in. long in the flowering stage, finally J in. long, red and 

 wrapped round the others. Corolla pubescent. Posticous filaments 

 bearded at the base.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 348, t. 43, fig. A-J. 



irile ]band. Somaliland ; in swamps near the Dagatto Torrent, Ghika. 

 British East Africa : Plateau between Uhi and Ukamba, Fischer, 5U0. 



3. PLATYSTOMA, P. Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 



1172. 



Calyx deflexed in fruit; tube campanulate; limb deeply bilabiate, 

 with two subequal oblong lips, the upper not decurrent, with a small 

 tooth on each. Corolla-tube short, funnel-shaped ; limb bilabiate ; 

 upper lip 4-toothed, lower scarcely longer, slightly concave, entire. 

 Stamens 4, declinate; filaments free, dilated at the base; anthers 1- 

 celled. Disk glandular. Style shortly bifid at the apex. Nucules 

 ovoid, minutely reticulated. — Habit of Ocimiim. 

 One species also in Tropical Asia. 



Corolla not much longer than the calyx . . . 1. P. africanum. 



Corolla much longer than the calyx . . . 2. P. buettnerianum. 



1. P. africanniiiy P. Beauv. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 47. An 

 erect annual, with a much-branched slender slightly pubescent stem, 

 1-2 ft. long. Leaves petioled, ovate, crenate, membranous, slightly 

 pubescent, 1-2 in. long. Racemes moderately dense, 3-G in. long ; 

 flowers about 10 in a whorl ; bracts as long luj the \\ horls ; pedicels 

 short. Calyx y^ in. long. Corolla pale lilac, not much longer than 

 the calyx; lips short. Stamens not exserted. — P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. t. 

 95, fig. 2 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 140 ; Briquet in Bull. Soc, 

 Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 75u P.Jlacciduvi, Benth. ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 

 iv. 611. Ocimumjlaccidum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 170. 



