184 VERBENACEH ( Pearson). [ Stilbe, 
2. §. mucronata (N. E. Br. in Hook. fil. Ic. Pl. t. 2526); branches 
densely villous-tomentose; leaves crowded, in whorls of 4 or 5, 
reflexed or spreading, very rarely erect, with incurved mucronate 
apex, silky-tomentose when young, later glabrous above, tomentose 
beneath, 2-4 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad; spike subglobose, about 
6 lin. in diam. ; flowering bract linear, acuminate, concave, sheath- 
ing below, densely silky-villous on the back and margins, 2~21 
lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate or oblanceo- 
late, acute, more or less mueronate, densely silky-villous in the 
upper half and along the margins, 13-22 lin. long, 1-8 lin. broad ; 
calyx 13-2 lin. long, deeply 5- or 6-partite ; lobes lanceolate, acute, 
densely silky-villous in the upper half and along the margins ; 
corolla-tube glabrous, 14-1} lin, long; lobes narrowly linear, acute, 
densely villous on the inner face, 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad at the 
base; stamens 12 lin. long; style about 2 lin. long. Phylica 
mucronata, EH. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 
84 (name only). 
Vax. 8, cuspidata (H. H. W. Pearson); branches densely silky-villous when 
young ; leaves linear-subulate, cuspidate at the apex, silky-villous when young, 
5-6 lin. long; flowering bract linear-subulate with a brown mucro at the apex, 
narrowly sheathing at the base, densely silky-villous about the middle, 2-3 lin. 
long ; bracteoles and calyx-lobes with brown acuminate tips. 
Bgl a Arrica: without precise locality, Niven! Roxburgh, “ Brunia, 
0. 
Coast Reaion: Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1000-2000 ft., Drége! 
Burchell, 8221! Caledon Div.; between Palmiet River and Lowrys Pass, 
Burchell, 8172! Houw Hoek, 1400-3600 ft., Schlechter, 7574! Bolus, 8409! 
Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 800 ft., Schlechter, 7636! Var. 8, Caledon Div.; on 
the Zwarte Berg, near Caledon, 3000 ft., Bolus ! 
3. S. ericoides (Linn. Mant. 305); a small erect or somewhat 
straggling (Niven) shrub branching chiefly at the base, a2 ‘ft. 
high ; adult branches glabrous; leaves crowded in whorls of 3-5, 
erect or spreading, abruptly narrowed at the base, truncate or 
minutely apiculate, glabrous, 13~3 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad ; spike 
erect, cylindric, 3-3 in. long, 1-1 in, in diam.; flowering bract 
lanceolate with revolute margins, pubescent or puberulous, 
2-27 lin. long; bracteoles linear-subulate, with revolute margins, 
sheathing towards the base, falcate, acuminate, acute, pube- 
rulous, 1} lin. long; flowers pink; calyx tubular, membranous, 
5-toothed, glabrous, silky-puberulous or -pubescent without, 
1-1; lin. long ; teeth narrowly deltoid, acute, with thickened villous 
margins, shorter than the tube; corolla-tube glabrous, 11-2 lin. 
long ; lobes linear, obtuse, with a single median nerve branching 
near the apex, glabrous, 1-11 lin. long; stamens 13-12 lin, long; 
style 13-3} lin. long. Murr, Syst. Veq. ed. 13, 772 ; Thunb. Prodr. 
29, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 146; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 1117; Poir. in 
Lam. Encycl. Suppl. v. 251 exel, Jig.; E. Meyer, Comm. 280; 
Walp. Rep.iv.171; A.DO. in DC. Prod. xii, 607. 8S. virgata, Poir. 
I. ¢. 252; Lam. Ill. t. 856, fig. 3. Selago ericoides, Linn. Mant. 
87. Luchea ericoides, F.W. Schmidt in Usteri, Ann. vi. (17938) 118. 
