182 VERBENACEH (Pearson). [Campylostachys. 
I, CAMPYLOSTACHYS, Kunth. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed or polysepalous with subequal narrow 
slightly imbricating lobes (or sepals). Corolla subequally 4- (some- 
times 5-) lobed; tube short, broad, hairy within at the throat. 
Stamens 4, equal, inserted between the corolla-lobes in the upper 
part of the tube; anthers ovate, with parallel cells distinctly 
separated below. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled ; ovules 2, erect, basal ; 
style glabrous, minutely 2-lobed at the apex. Fruit shorter than the 
calyx, oblong-ovate, at first 2-grooved, later dehiscing by 4 valves. 
Seed albuminous, solitary, erect, large, with a reticulately wrinkled 
testa. 
Erect ericoid shrubs; leaves crowded in whorls, subulate or linear-subulate, 
thick, hard, with revolute margins ; spike short, capitate, terminal, sessile among 
the leaves; flowers solitary, sessile in the axils of the bracts; bracts subulate 
above the middle, much broadened and sheathing at the base; bracteoles 2, 
subulate, oblique, keeled, 
1 species, endemic. 
1. C. cernua (Kunth in Abh. Akad. Berlin, 1831, 207); a low 
shrub, 1-2 ft. high; branches erect, terete, puberulous or shortly 
pubescent ; leaves crowded, in whorls of 4—6, erect, spreading, or 
somewhat recurved, linear-subulate, narrowed at the base, minutely 
apiculate, glabrous or minutely puberulous, 3-6 lin. long, 1—1 lin. 
broad ; spike subglobose, more or less nodding, about 6 lin. in diam. ; 
flowering bract broadly cuneate, membranous and sheathing below, 
in the distal half abruptly linear-subulate, minutely apiculate, 
puberulous or villous on the back and on the distal margin of 
the sheath, 23-33 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad near the base ; 
bracteoles boat-shaped, falcate, acuminate, acute, strongly keeled, 
glabrous within, villous on the keel and margin, 2-2% lin. long, 
i lin. broad ; calyx membranous, 5-partite or polysepalous, 2-2 lin. 
long ; lobes (or sepals) linear, obliquely acuminate, acute, keeled, 
puberulous or glabrous; corolla-tube funnel-shaped, glabrous with- 
out, 13-2 lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, 
3-nerved, 2 lin. long, 3} lin. broad; stamens 2-3 lin. long; style 
2132 lin. long. Walp. Rep. iv. 173; A.DC. in DOC. Prod. -xii. 
605. Stilbe cernua, Linn. fil. Suppl. 441; Thunb. Prodr. 29, and 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 146; Willd, Sp. Pl. iv. 1116; Lam. Encycl. 
Suppl. v. 251. 
Sour A¥FRIca: without precise locality, Masson ! Thom, 614! 628! Pappe ! 
Harvey, 199! Nelson! Drége; | 
Coast Rxeion: Cape Div.; on Table Mountain, Burchell, 609! Camps 
Bay, Burchel/, 335! on Devils Mountain, Wolley Dod, 895! Krauss. near 
Cape Town, up to 2000 ft., Zeyher, 3588! Burchell! False Bay, Robertson! 
Caledon Div.: Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 9434! Stellenbosch Div.; on the 
western slopes of Hottentots Holland, near Lowrys Pass, 800 ft., Bolus, 4188! 
on Donker Hoek, Burchell, 7940! Swellendam Div. ; on the Tradouw Mountains, 
Bowie! 
