352 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Geniosjx^'um. 



(J. G. paludosum, Bak&)\ An erect perennial, with branched 

 slender pubescent stems, 1-2 ft. long. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 

 crenate, 1-2 in. long, thinly pubescent on both sides. Whorls forming 

 dense cylindrical terminal racemes, l-o in. long; lower bracts, as in 

 G. madagascariense, large, ovate, white ; upper small, pubescent ; pedicels 

 short. Fruit-calyx pubescent, J in. long; tube oblong; teeth all 

 deltoid. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; lips short. Stamens 

 shortly exserted. 



wile Iiand. British East Africa : Uganda, common in grassland, Wilson, 67 ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Unangu to Lake Siiirwa, Johnson, 

 69 ! Zambesiland, KirJc ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blaiit\ re, Buchanan, 

 129! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Masuka Plateau, Whyte ! and without 

 precise locality, Buchanan, 719 ! 



7. G. scabridnm. Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 105. An erect 

 herb, with ascending branches, clothed with violet or ferruginous hairs. 

 Leaves small, shortly petioled, round-ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, 

 crenate, clothed both above and below with short rigid hairs, bullate 

 on the under surface. Racemes dense; pedicels -J lin. long; bracts 

 suborbicular, white at the base, green or purplish on the margin. 

 Calyx pubescent, violet ; tube campanulate, h Hn. long ; teeth shorter 

 than the tube ; upper ovate ; 4 lower very small, deltoid. Corolla pro- 

 truding 1 lin. from the throat of the calyx. Stamens exserted ; upper 

 filaments villous at the base. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Lunda ; Lulua River, Pogge, 347. 



8. G. affine, Gurke in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 197. Stems suffruticose, 

 branched, clothed with reddish hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, broadly 

 ovate, acute or subobtuse, \\ in. long, 1 in. broad, cordate or rounded 

 at the base, crenate, pubescent above, subvillous beneath. Eacemes 

 simple, dense ; bracts sessile, pubescent, the lower orbicular, the upper 

 ovate ; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Flowers 



1 3^ in. long. Calyx campanulate, not pubescent. Corolla-tube 



rather longer than the calyx. Stamens exserted. 



IVlle Ziand. British East Africa : Uganda, Stuhhnann, 1351, Lendu Plateau, 

 4500 ft., Stuhlmann, 2753. 



5. MOSCHOSMA, Reichb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 1178. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or subunisexual. Fruit only slightly 

 declinate, but little accrescent ; tube campanulate ; teeth less unequal 

 than in Ocimum, the upper not decurrent. Corolla-tube short; limb 

 bilabiate ; lobes short, the lower nearly flat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 declinate; filaments filiform ; anthers 1 -celled. Disk glandular. Style 

 bifid. Nucules ovoid, smooth, rather compressed. — Annual. or perennial 

 herbs. Leaves petioled, crenate. Whorls many-flowered, forming 

 panicled racemes. Flowers very small. — Basilicum, Moench, Meth. 

 Suppl. 143. 



