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terete, leafy, divaricate, with rather short whitish and spreading 

 pubescence, glabrescent below ; branchlets slender, herbaceous ; 

 leaves opposite or the upper alternate, elliptical or obovate, narrowed 

 to the obtuse apex, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, toothed 

 on the upper half, entire towards the inconspicuously 3-nerved base, 

 sfcrigulose with short rather thick whitish hairs, minutely glandular- 

 papillose, -3— If in. long, Jg-f in. broad; petioles up to ^ in. long ; 

 floral leaves obovate or narrowly elliptical, obtuse, with a few small 

 teeth above, below entire and adhering to the calyx, puberulous, 

 shortly ciliate, i-| in. long; flowers sessile or subsessile, few or 

 comparatively distant, 1^-2 in. long, scarlet or chocolate outside, 

 white within ; spikes short or elongated] calyx oblong, bilabiate 

 half-way down, puberulous, shortly ciliate, | in. long, or in fruit 

 somewhat more ; teeth 5, lanceolate or ovate-triangular, short, 

 puberulous, shortly ciliate, subacute ; corolla-tube shortly pubescent 

 and glandular outside, slender; limb spreading, about -|-f in. in 

 diam. ; segments 5, obovate, bifid, about i-i in. long ; mouth pilose ; 

 stamens didynaaious, glabrous ; filaments short or very short, 

 filiform, inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube ; anthers all 

 perfect, one pair more or less exserted, the other included ; style 

 fiHform, shortly exserted ; capsule about f in. long. 



Eastern Region, between 5000 and 7000 ft. : Nsital ; Vau Reenens Pass, 

 iichlccliler, 6941 ! Wood, 7906 ! near Chiirlestown, Wood, 5721 ! 



9. Z. KatharinsB (Hiern); a glandular-pubescent undershrub, 

 more than 1 ft. high, grey, much branched, subherbaceous above ; 

 branches subterete, rather slender, wiry, divaricate, ascending, 

 opposite or alternate, grey-green below, grey-purplish and leafy 

 above; pubescence short, dense; leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate, ovate or elliptical, narrowed to the obtuse or subacute 

 apex, subtruueate or rather abruptly narrowed or wedge-shaped at 

 the base, strongly- or excise-dentate except at the base, thickly her- 

 baceous, subscabrid-puberulous, dusky or dull-green or partly 

 purplish when dry, i-| in. long, i-f in. broad ; petioles yV-j m- 

 long, somewhat or scarcely dilated and clasping at the base ; floral 

 leaves similar, the blades free from the calyx ; flowers axillary and 

 subterminal, solitary, subsessile or sessile, about l{ m. Jong ; calyx 

 shortly bilabiate, narrowly oblong, glandular-pubescent, about .} in. 

 long or slightly more ; teeth 5, erect, lanceolate, acute or subacute, 

 A-tV in. long; corolla-tube slender, filiform, carmine and shortly 

 glandular-pubescent outside ; limb speading, about |-,i in. m aiam. ; 

 white with a pink tinge and glabrous within ; segments obovate, 

 bifid, i-xin.long; throat puberulous or pilose-hispid ; stamens didy- 

 namous, glabious ; filaments filiform, short or very short, inserted on 

 tbe upper part of the corolla-tube, anthers all perfect, one pair just or 

 partly exserted, ^WV i"- l^^g, the other shortly included about 

 iin. long; style filiform, about as long as or shortly exceeding he 

 corolla-ti^be ; ovary glabrous; capsule oblong, \-\ m. long, at length 

 splitting the calyx ; valves 2, bifid at the apex. 



