186 VERBENACES (Pearson). [ Stilbe. 
bracteoles falcate, acuminate, sheathing towards the base, keeled, 
villous in the upper two-thirds, 21-3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; 
calyx tubular, cartilaginous, brown, glabrous, 5-toothed; tube in- 
distinctly 5-nerved, 14-14 lin. long; teeth narrowly deltoid, acute, 
villous along the margins, with a single distinct median nerve, + lin. 
long, + lin. broad at the base ; corolla-tube glabrous, 13—2 lin. long; 
lobes linear with a single median nerve, silky-villous along the 
margins and on the inner face or with only a few long white hairs, 
24-23 lin. long, + lin. broad; stamens 2 lin. long; style 2-3 lin. 
long. S. pinastra, Linn. Mant. 305; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 13, 772 ; 
Thunb. Prodr. 29, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 146; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 
1116; Poir. in Lam. Encyel. Suppl. v. 251; Lam. Ill. t. 856, fig. 1; 
Walp. Rep. iv. 172; A.DC. in DC. Prod. xii. 607; Lindl. Veg. 
Kingd. 607, fig. 411. Selago Prunastri, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, 1117. 
S. pinastra, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 876, excl. syn. S. Pinastrt, 
Linn. MSS. in Herb. propr. 
SoutH Arrica: without precise locality, Boivin, 645! Masson! Roxburgh! 
Bunbury, 167! Zeyher! 
Coast RrGion: Cape Div.; mountain sides between Constantia and Hout 
Bay, 1000 ft., Bolws, 3959! Muizen Berg, 1000 ft., Bolus, 3348! in stony 
places on Table Mountain above Slang Kuil, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Aust.-Afr., 926! Simons Bay, Wright, 429! 430! Table Mountain, 600-2500 ft., 
Harvey, 198! Galpin, 4421! Krauss, 1060. Table Mountain and near Witte- 
boom, 600-1000 ft., Drége ! Swellendam Div. ; on the Zwarte Berg and Tradouw 
Mountains, Bowie ! 
Ill. EUTHYSTACHYS, A. DC. 
Calyx of 5 subequal sepals; the 3 posterior connate into a broad 
3-toothed lip, the 2 anterior free. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, equally 
5-fid, bearded in the throat. Stamens 4, subequal or didynamous 
(tsometimes 5, one being sterile), inserted in the throat of the corolla 
between the lobes, with introrse anthers; anther-cells continuous at 
the apex, divergent below, widely so when mature, dehiseing by a 
continuous longitudinal slit. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 basal erect 
ovules ; style undivided. Fruit not seen. 
Erect ericoid shrubs about a foot high ; leaves numerous, crowded, verticillate, 
hard, linear-subulate or -triquetrous, with revolute margins; spike terminal 
or lateral, few-flowered, compact, sessile among the leaves; flowers sessile, 
solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts which overtop them, 2-bracteolate. 
1 species, endemic. 
1, E. abbreviata (A. DC. in DC. Prod. xii. 606); branches with 
prominent leaf-sears, pubescent or puberulous; leaves in whorls of 4, 
erect, linear-subulate or -triquetrous, acute, glabrous, 43-6 lin. long, 
3-2 lin, broad at the base; spike terminal or lateral, 6-10-flowered, 
subglobose, with a densely silky-pubescent axis, about 4 lin. in 
diam.; flowering braet linear and sheathing towards the base, 
triquetrous towards the apex, acute, with a median ridge on the 
upper surface extending from the middle to the apex, puberulous on. 
