Bouchea. | CI. VERBENACEX (BAKER). 283 
long; bracts linear, rigid; pedicels short, ascending. Calyx finally 
¢ in. long, toothed, splitting down one side to the base. Corolla-tube 
long, cylindrical ; limb $ in. long. Capsule obtuse, } in. long, tetragonal, 
not winged, black. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Hereroland, Pechuel-Loesche. 
The typical form is South African. 
4. B. sessilifolia, Vatke in Linnea, xliii.529. Stems clothed with 
short whitish pubescence. Leaves sessile, firm, obovate-cuneate, above 
3 in, long, sharply toothed in the upper half, slightly hairy on both 
sides. Spike slender, moderately dense, about } ft. long; bracts small, 
ovate, acuminate. Calyx } in. long; teeth very minute. Corolla-tube 
1 in. long; limb } in. diam. Capsule shorter than the calyx.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 355. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Adda Galla, James § Thrupp! Ah\ Mountains at 
Yafir, 6500 ft., Hildebrandt, 855A. 
5. B. Hanningtoni, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1446. Branches 
tetragonal, shortly pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, subsessile, 
subacute, rigidly subcoriaceous, 1-14 in. long, inciso-crenate above the 
base, slightly hairy on both sides. End spike 4} ft. long, dense in the 
upper half, lax in the lower; bracts ovate, acuminate, much shorter 
than the calyx. Calyx slender, } in. long, strongly 5-ribbed, clothed 
with ascending whitish bristly hairs; teeth large, lanceolate. Corolla- 
tube curved, very slender, 14 in. long; limb } in. diam. Capsule not 
seen. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa, Hannington ! 
5. STACHYTARPHETA, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
1145. 
Calyx long, cylindrical, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed, often variously slit in a 
late Stage. Corolla-tube slender, cylindrical; limb patent, with 5 orbi- 
cular equal or unequal lobes. Perfect stamens 2 (the anticous pair) 
mcluded in the corolla-tube ; anther-cells divaricate ; staminodia 2, 
minute, Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary, attached laterally near the 
base of the cells ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit cylindrica, 
Separating into two long narrow truncate pyrenes. Seeds linear, exal- 
uminous.- -Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves usually opposite, petioled, 
toothed. Inflorescence a long spike, with the rhachis usually thickened 
and hollowed out so as to form a cavity in which the flowers are im- 
mersed ; bracts lanceolate, rigid, persistent. Corolla blue, red or white. 
Species about 40, mostly Tropical American. 
Rhachis not hollowed out opposite the Howers 
hachis hollowed out opposite the tlowers. 
Corolla-limb small, blue. ifolia 
reeves oblong-lanceolate, acute ’ , x ; oie , 
eaves oblong, obtuse . . . . , "Ag ili 
Corolla-limb larger, ved . e—_ 
1. S. Hildebrandtii. 
