Plectranthus.) LABIAT. 845 
connate in an ovoid calyx, tubular in fruit, suberect or declinate ; 
upper tooth widest, not decurrent, lateral pair free or connate 
with upper, lowest pair short, free or connate. Petals 5, connate 
in a 2-lipped corolla; upper lip 4-fid; lower declinate, entire. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate; filaments free, aye 
Disk swollen, gibbous. Carpels connate in a 4-partite ovary ; 
style with short, flattened arms. Fruit of 4 dry, ovoid or rentiig 
1633. chelate tty PROSTRATUM Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 610; E. D. 
161. 
has. sand-dunes on coast. 
small, prostrate herb. 
740. Moschosma Reichb. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Flowers v ery minute ; whorls 6-10- 
flowered, secund in axillary and terminal, paniculate racemes ; 
bracts small. Sepals 5, connate in an ovoid or campanulate 
calyx ; upper tooth or 3 upper teeth larger than the 4 or 2 lower, 
not decurrent; throat naked. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped 
corolla ; upper lip 4-lobed, lobes subequal or the 2 Pierce rather 
longer ; lower aes longer than upper. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
declinate ; filaments free, toothless; anther-cells scien. Disk 
uniform or peerraen at swollen in front. Carpels connate in a 
4-partite ovary ; style pieien -capitate, with a 2-fid tip. Frwit of 
4 compressed, smooth, dry nutlets; basal scar small. 
1 MoscHosma potysracnyum Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 612. 
Ocimum polystachyum F. I. iii. 18. 
E. Bengal. 
A slender, erect, annual herb. 
741. Plectranthus L’Herit. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers usually small, in lax, rarely 
exserted, long or short, straight or decurved; throat equal or 
obliquely swollen ; upper lip usually short, broad, 4-fid, recurved ; 
wer much loupe, entire, boat-shaped, stipitate or narrow at the 
Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate ; filaments simple, free ; 
anther-cells usually confluent. Disk usually enlarged in - ont. 
