398 cii. LABIATE (baker). [yEolauthiis. 



bracts in pairs, foliaceous, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, imbricate, J in. 

 long. Calyx campanulate, ^ in. long. Corolla J in. long; lower lip 

 shorter than the tube. Stamens not exserted beyond the lower lip. — 

 yEolanthus sp., Burkill & Wright in Journ. Linn.Soc. xxxiv. 272, fig. 7. 

 Mozamb. Blst. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, in 

 marshes, Btichanan, 459 ! Fort Hill, Tanganyika plateau, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! 



38. jHS. floribundus. Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 190. An 

 undershrub, with erect branches, clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves 

 petioled, oblanceolate, 1 in. long, \-\ in. broad, obtuse, narrowed to the 

 base, entire, green and glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes subsessile, 

 aggregated in a dense terminal raceme 5-6 in. long; bracts oblong, 

 coloured. Calyx small, campanulate, with 5 obscure teeth. Corolla 

 pale violet, J in. long ; tube incurved, dilated in the upper half, nearly 

 J in. long; lower lip J in. long. Stamens not exserted. 



Aower Guinea. Angola ; near Moina, Btichner, 82. 



39. JR. obtusifolius. Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 189. An 

 undershrub, with straight branches, clothed with short adpressed pubes- 

 cence. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate, | in. long, \ in. broad, obtuse, 

 narrowed to the base, entire, pubescent on both surfaces, green above, 

 grey beneath. Cymes shortly peduncled, aggregated in a dense 

 terminal raceme 5-6 in. long; bracts oblong, coloured, about \ in. long. 

 Flower-calyx campanulate, ^ in. long; teeth very minute. Corolla 

 \ in. long ; tube much exserted, incurved ; lower lip \ in. long. 

 Stamens not exserted. 



]bo^ver Crulnea. Angola ; Malange, Welwitsch [Mechoic ?), 473. 



Imj^erfectly knoion species. 



40. JEt, ndorensis, Schweinf. in Hoh'iwl Zum Rudolph-See u. 

 .Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 6. Suffruticose, with succulent pubescent 

 branches. Leaves elliptic, sessile. Corolla pubescent outside. Stamens 

 longer than the lower lip. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 362. 



lOrile Xiand. British East Africa : Ndoro, on the western slope of Mount 

 Kenia, 6350 ft., Mohnel. 



13. PLECTRANTHUS, L'Herit. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 



1175. 



Calyx slightly accrescent, usually declinate in the fruiting stage ; 

 tube oblong or campanulate, often gibbous at the base ; teeth subequal, 

 deltoid, or unequal, the upper ovate and reflexed, the others cuspidate. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate ; filaments free (except in 78. P. inso- 

 litus), filiform ; anther-cells usually confluent. Disk produced into a 

 gland, which is sometimes longer than the ovary. Style shortly bifid. 

 Nucules ovoid or oblong, smooth or punctate. — Annual or perennial 

 herbs or undershrubs. Leaves very various in shape and size, petioled 

 or sessile. Flowers solitary or in axillary more or less developed cymes, 



