Euthystachys. | VERBENACE® (Pearson). 187 
the margins of the sheath and at the base, 6—7 lin. long; 1 lin. 
broad near the base; bracteoles narrowly boat-shaped, acuminate, 
acute, strongly keeled, puberulous on the margins, 3-31 lin. long, 
3-2 lin. broad; flowers concealed by the bracts and leaves; calyx 
membranous, puberulous within and along the free margins; 
posterior lip ovate, with 3 (or 2) short deltoid-acuminate teeth, 22 lin. 
long, 14 lin. broad ; anterior lip 2—lobed almost to the base; lobes 
ovate-elliptic, acuminate, acute, l-nerved, 21 lin. long, 3—% lin. 
broad ; corolla narrowly campanulate, equally 5-lobed, glabrous 
without, marked with seattered groups of dark cells; lobes elliptic, 
obtuse, obscurely nerved, with thickened and revolute margins, 
keeled, villous on the inner face ; tube 13-2 lin. long ; lobes 1 lin. 
long, } lin. broad at the base; stamens included ; ovary obscurely 
4-angled, glabrous; style 2 lin. long. Campylostachys abbreviata, 
E. Meyer, Comm. 279; Walp. Rep. iv. 173. 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div, ; Drakenstein Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., 
Drége! 
IV. EURYLOBIUM, Hochst. 
Calyz membranous, subcampanulate, prominently 5-angled, equally 
5-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 
bearded within in the throat; upper lip 2-lobed to about the 
middle, lower 3-partite, smaller than the upper ; lobes broader than 
in Stilbe, ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved. Stamens as in Huthystachys. 
Ovary 2-celled with 1 erect ovule in each cell; style filiform, not 
conspicuously divided at the apex. Mature fru/t unknown, 
Low, ericoid, glabrous shrubs in habit closely resembling Stilbe ; leaves 
crowded in whorls, linear-subulate, hard, entire or minutely serrate, with 
revolute margins; spike terminal, compact, sessile among the upper leaves ; 
flowers solitary, sessile in the axils of leaf-like bracts, 2-bracteolate, 
1 species, endemic, 
1. E. serrulatum (Hochst. in Flora, 1842, 229); branches 
pubescent, with prominent leaf-scars ; leaves erect, in whorls of 4, 
minutely serrate, acute, glabrous, impressed-punctate, narrowed 
at the base, 441 lin. long, }—$ lin. broad; spike ovoid-eylindric, 
1-11 in, long, 3-4 lin. in diam.; flowers white; flowering bract 
leaf-like, 23-5 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad; bracteoles narrowly boat- 
shaped, falcate, acuminate, minutely serrate, glabrous, 2}-3 lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad; calyx membranous, 5-toothed ; tube prominently 
5-ribbed, glabrous, 1-12 lin. long; teeth deltoid, acute, 1-nerved, 
minutely ciliate along the margins, } lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the 
base ; corolla-tube glabrous without, 1}-2 lin. long ; posterior lip 
12-18 lin. broad; anterior lip deeply lobed into 3 ovate obtuse 
segments, each with 3 parallel nerves anastomosing at the apex ; 
filaments 1-2 lin. long, slightly broader at the insertion ; ovary 
glabrous, conic; style 2} lin. long. Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 70; 
