Stilbe. | VERBENACEEX (Pearson). 183 
IJ. STILBE, Berg. 
Calyx leathery or membranous, more or less eampanulate, 5-toothed 
or 5-partite, symmetric or with the three posterior teeth or lobes 
slightly larger. Corolla with a narrow tube, somewhat widening 
upwards, bearing within at the throat a wide ring of erect white 
hairs; lobes 5, equal. Stamens 4, subequal, inserted at the top of 
the corolla-tube between the lobes ; anthers oval, with parallel cells 
continuous at the summit, separated below. Ovary of 2 carpels, 
2-celled, 2-ovuled (or, by abortion, 1-celled, 1-ovuled), glabrous ; 
style entire or minutely bifid, glabrous. rut oblong, enclosed in 
the calyx, 2-lobed, 2-celled (or, by abortion, 1-celled, 1-seeded), 
indehiscent ; pericarp thin, membranous. Seed albuminous, erect; 
testa pitted or reticulately wrinkled. 
Erect, glabrous, or occasionally hairy, ericoid shrubs ; leaves in whorls of 3-7, 
erect, spreading, or reflexed, narrow, linear-subulate, hard, with revolute 
margins, passing upwards into bracts; spike dense, terminal, sessile among the 
upper leaves ; flowers white or rose-coloured, solitary, sessile in the axils of the 
bracts ; bracteoles 2, narrow, usually obliquely acuminate. 
5 species, endemic. 
Section 1. AmpnistiLBe. Calyx 5-partite. nage 
Adult leaves erect or spreading... ve ... (1) phylicoides. 
Adult leaves strongly reflexed ine ea ... (2) mucronata. 
Section 2. Eusritpe. Calyx 5-toothed. 
Calyx membranous ae vi 
Calyx cartilaginous : : 
Corolla-lobes 3-nerved, glabrous se ... (4) albiflora. 
Corolla-lobes 1-nerved, more or less villous ... (5) vestita. 
(3) ericoides. 
1, §. phylicoides (A.DC. in DC. Prod. xii. 606); a low shrub, 
1-2 ft. high ; branches erect, glabrous or minutely pubescent, with 
prominent leaf-scars; leaves crowded, in whorls of 6 or 7, erect or 
spreading, shortly apiculate, with incurved apex, abruptly narrowed 
at the base, glabrous, 21-31 lin. long, }—} lin. broad; spike sub- 
globose, white, about 6 lin. in diam.; flowering bract coriaceous, 
boat-shaped, acuminate, acute, villous, 2-2} lin. long, } lin. broad ; 
bracteoles narrowly linear, faleate, acuminate, acute, villous along 
the margins, 2-23 lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad; ealyx with a tuft of 
white hairs at the base externally on the upper side, 5-partite, 
1-3 lin. long; lobes lanceolate, acute, mucronate, in the upper 
half densely villous; corolla-tube glabrous, 2 lin. long; lobes 
linear, densely silky villous, 1-1} lin. long; stamens 2 lin. long ; 
style about 2 lin. long. Campylostachys phylicoides, Sonder in 
Linnea, xx. 202 (name only). 
Coast Recion : Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Zeyher, 3589 ! Shand 
in Herb, Bolus, 6256; Riversdale Div. ; Lower part of the Lange Bergen near 
Kampsche Berg, Burchel?, 6937! on Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7083! summit 
of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7127! mountains of Garcias Pass, 1200 ft., Galpin, 
4420! 
