466 CIl. LABIAT# (BAKER). [ Stachys. 
obtuse.—Annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs. Leaves sessile 
or petioled, entire or toothed. Whorls axillary or crowded into 
terminal racemose panicles. Flowers small or medium-sized, various 
colour. 
Species about 200, cosmopolitan, concentrated in the Temperate regions of both 
hemispheres. 
*Eu-sTacuys.—Herbaceous. 
Stems trailing, prickly . 1. S. aculeolata. 
Stems erect, not prickly. _ 
Leaves lanceolate 2, S. pseudonigricans. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate 3. S. huillensis. 
Leaves oblong . 4. S. nemorivaga. 
Leaves ovate-oblong . 5. S, andongensis. 
Leaves ovate 6. S. ethiopiea. 
**AMBLEIA,—Shrubby. 
Calyx-teeth deltoid. 
Leaves entire . . . . . %, 8S. palestina. . 
Leaves crenate . . . . . . . 8. S. Hildebrandtii. 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate . 9. S. bizensis. 
1. S. aculeolata, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 18, and vii 213. 
A perennial, with very slender trailing stems, muricated with reflexed 
prickles. Leaves distant, distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, conspicuously 
crenate, pubescent on both sides, the largest 1 in. long. Whorls few, 
distant, the lower subtended by reduced leaves. Calyx ¢ in. long ; teeth 
ovate-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. Corolla pinkish-white, 3 in. 
long ; lower lip as long as the tube; upper shorter.— Engl. Hochgebirgsf. 
Trop. Afr. 369. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 8000 ft., Johnston, 71! 
Fernando Po: Clarence Peak, 9000 ft., Mann, 319! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shoa: Ankober, Roth, 520! 
2. S. pseudonigricans, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 315. A 
perennial herb, with erect pubescent branched stems about 3 ft. long. 
Leaves distant, sessile, thin, lanceolate, obscurely crenate, slightly 
hairy on both sides, narrowed to the base, the largest 2-5 1n. long. 
Whorls many, distant, 6-flowered, the lower subtended by large leaves ; 
pedicels short, pubescent. Calyx pubescent, 4 in. long ; teeth deltoid, 
subequal, not mucronate, shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube as long 
as the calyx ; lower lip 4 in. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 28! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1! 
3. S. huillensis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 875. A pert, 
nial herb, with numerous erect sparingly branched hoary stems 1-2 ft. 
long, from a woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, 
2-3 in. long, membranous, acute, crenate, cuneate or slightly rounde 
at the base, dark green and slightly hairy above, paler and more hairy 
beneath. Whorls 4-5, only the lowest subtended by short leaves; 
