Stilbe.] VERBENACEH (Pearson). 185 
Soutn AFRica: without precise locality, Wright, 428! Pappe! Villet’ 
Masson! Zeyher! Roxburgh! Lehmann! 
Coast Region: Malmesbury Div. ; neighbourhood of the Berg River and in 
Zwartland, Ecklon S Zeyher! Cape Div.; sand-flats at Wynberg, Drége! Cape 
Flats, Zeyher, 1390! Harvey! Burchell, 8526! 8552! flats near Newlands, 
Wolley Dod, 633! near Cape Town, Burchell! in fields near Smitswinkel Bay, 
500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 243! in open fields at 
Rondebosch, near Cape Town, below 100 ft., Bolus, 3969! near Cape Town, 
Harvey ! flats near Wynberg, Drége ! Niven ! Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, Schlechter, 
7728! Swellendam Div.; on the mountains of Swellendam, Bowie! Uitenhage 
Div.; Algoa Bay, Forbes ! 
The type specimen in the Linnzean Herbarium has a glabrous calyx. 
4. §. albiflora (E. Meyer, Comm. 279); a low shrub, 1-2 ft, 
high, with stems erect, villous in the young parts, frequently un- 
branched ; leaves crowded, in whorls of 4-6, erect or spreading, 
With ineurved mucronate apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 
3-5 lin. long, 2 lin. broad; spike ovoid or ovoid-eylindric, 
7-12 lin. long, 5-8 lin. in diam., with a silky-pubescent 
axis; flowering Dbract lanceolate, sheathing below, puberulous, 
23 lin, long, 2—% lin, broad ; braeteoles narrowly lanceolate, falcate, 
slightly keeled, villous along the margins above the middle, 21 lin. 
long, {—} lin. broad ; calyx tubular, cartilaginous, brown, glabrous, 
5-toothed ; tube distinctly 5-nerved, 11 lin. long; teeth narrowly 
deltoid, acute, with thickened villous margins and a single median 
nerve, > lin. long, }—} lin. broad at the base; corolla-tube glabrous 
Without, puberulous within above the middle, 2 lin. long ; lobes 
linear, 3-nerved, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad; stamens 22-3 lin. 
long; style 13-5 lin. long. Walp. Rep. iv. 172; A.DC. in DC. 
Prod. xii. 607. 8. albiflora, var. pilosa A.DC. le. S. albiflora, 
var., Sonder in Linnea, xx. 202 (name only). S. ericoides, Lam. 
Lil. t. 856, fig. 2. 
SourH AFRICA: without precise locality, Zeyher, 199! Masson! Nelson! 
y ! 
Open marie : Clanwilliam Div. ; between Biedow and Honig Vallei, 2500- 
3000 ft., Drége. Piquetberg Div. ; on the Piquet Berg, 1500-2000 ft., Drege, 
and without precise locality, Zeyher, 1389! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Water- 
fall, 1000-1500 ft., Drége ! Roode Zand Cascade, Niven! Roxburgh, “ Stilbe, 
No. 2”! mountains above Tulbagh, Pappe! Caledon Div.; near Caledon, 
Pappe! on the Zwarte Berg and region of the hot springs, Ecklon § Zeyher ! 
mountains of Baviaans Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7633! Genadendal, 
2800 ft., Schlechter, 9855! between Palmiet River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 
8177! Lowrys Pass, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 7225! Swellendam Div. ; on Groot- 
vaders Bosch Mountains, Bowie / 
5. §. vestita (Berg. Pl. Cap. 30, t. 4, fig. 6); a low, branched 
shrub, 1-2 ft. high ; branches erect, glabrous when adult; leaves 
densely crowded, in whorls of 4-6, erect, spreading, or somewhat 
reflexed, with incurved mucronate apex, glabrous, 33—7 lin. long, 
271 lin. broad ; spike ovoid-cylindrie, 7-12 lin. long, 5-7 lin. in 
diam., with a densely silky-pubescent axis persisting after the 
fall of the flowers; flowers white ; flowering bract linear-acuminate, 
mucronate, sheathing towards the base, villous along the margins 
of the sheath and below the acumen, 4 lin. long, 1 lin, broad; 
