188 : VERBENACEX (Pearson). [Eurylobium. 
Walp. Rep. iv. 173; A.DC. in DC. Prod. xii. 608. Stzlbe 
serrulata, Hochst. in Flora, 1842, 229. 
Coast REGIon: Caledon Div. ; Genadendal, 4700 ft., Schlechter, 9820! on 
the southern slopes of the mountains near Genadendal, MacOwan and Bolus, 
Herb. Norm, Aust.-Ajr., 375! tops of the mountains of Baviaans Kloof near 
Genadendal, Burchell, 7740! among rocks (Bunter Sandstone) on the summit 
of the mountain near Genadendal, 3000 ft., Krauss, 1110. 
V. XEROPLANA, Briquet. 
Calyx tubular, narrow, 5-toothed, 2-lipped ; upper lip 3-toothed, 
the lower consisting of 2 free lobes. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric, 
slightly dilated at the mouth, more or less pilose within the 
throat ; limb bilabiate, spreading, with oblong-linear narrow flat 
lobes; upper lip consisting of 2 free segments, much longer than 
the 3 equal segments of the lower. Stamens 4, sub-equal, inserted 
in the corolla-throat between the segments, exserted ; filaments 
glabrous, erect ; anthers ovate, with distinct parallel cells. Ovary 
2-celled, 2-ovuled; style exserted, with an entire slightly capi- 
tellate stigma; ovule erect from the base of the cell, anatropous. 
Mature fruit unknown. 
A low branched shrub, glabrous, ericoid, resembling Stilbe or Eurylobium in 
habit ; leaves in whorls of 3, crowded, linear, thick, with revolute margins ; 
spike terminal, sessile among the upper leaves: flowers solitary, sessile in the 
pve of the leaf-like bracts, with 2 lateral narrow bracteoles shorter than the 
owers, 
1 species, endemic. 
1, X. Zeyheri (Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 336); a low 
much-branched shrub, 4-6 in. high; primary root (apparently) 
persistent, erect, woody ; branches villous at the apex, erect or 
ascending, slender, with internodes 1-1 lin. long, with grey bark ; 
leaves sessile, in whorls of 3, hard, revolute, ericoid, villous above, 
beneath green, shining and quite glabrous, crowded in somewhat 
villous fascicles at the apices of the sterile branches, 2 lin. 
long ; spike about 3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad ; calyx membranous, 
glabrous or subglabrous, with nerves obscure without, about 12 lin. 
long; tube about 1 lin. long; upper lip of 3 lobes connate for 
half their length ; lower lip of 2 free lobes, Jess than } lin. long ; 
lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, villous within and at the margins, 
violet ; corolla-tube pilose within in the upper part, glabrous or 
glabrescent without, 2 lin. long; limb spreading ; lobes of the upper 
lip oblong-linear, obtuse, l-nerved, about 3 lin, long ; lobes of the 
lower lip much shorter than (but otherwise similar to) those of the 
upper; stamens erect, exserted, glabrous, about 25 lin. long; style 
very little shorter than the ovary. Stilbe Zeyheri, Briquet, lc. 338. 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 8 in Herb. 
Delessert. 
