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Hrect undershrubs : 
Calyx distinctly 2-lobed : 
Bracts more than 2 lin. long and 14 lin 
broad, exceeding the flowers nes ae 
Bracts less than 2 lin. long and 14 lin. broad, 
not exceeding the flowers .., ap “ 
Calyx truncate, subtruncate or obscurely 2- 
lobed : 
Leaves serrate or crenate-serrate : 
Bracts more than 2 lin, long; calyx 
truncate or obscurely 4-toothed ... (5) Wilmsii. 
Bracts less than 2 lin. long; calyx 
obscurely 2-lobed : 
Adult leaves elliptic, not more than 
(3) scaberrima, 
(4) asperifolia, 
1 in, long... ies oe ... (6) Rehmanni. 
Adult leaves ovate, more than 
1} in. long ses es -. (7) bazeiana. 
Leaves crenate... Ne a sae ... (8) pretoriensis. 
1. L. nodiflora (Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. ii. 15); a creeping per- 
ennial herb rooting at the nodes, obscurely pubescent, with closely 
adpressed silvery-white canoe-shaped unicellular hairs attached 
by the middle, acuminate and serrulate at both ends; stem 
ridged, with internodes 11~3 in. long; leaves opposite, sessile 
or petiolate, obovate, cuneate and entire in the basal half, sharply 
and coarsely dentate towards the rounded or subacute apex, with the 
midrib and ascending primary lateral nerves obscure or slightly 
prominent, 11-12 in. long, }—2 in. broad; spike subglobose, solitary, 
up to # in, long, 2-23 lin. in diam.; peduncle 1-24 in, long ; bracts 
not exceeding the flowers, obovate or subrhomboid, cuneate at the 
base, truncate, more or less rounded, apiculate or shortly mucronate 
at the apex, with a narrow membranous sinuate entire or obscurely 
serrate margin, glabrous above, 11-—1% lin. long, 13-13, lin. broad ; 
calyx deeply 2-lobed, compressed, mitre-shaped, puberulous on the 
prominent keels with simple adpressed hairs attached by their bases, 
elsewhere thinly membranous and glabrous, 1-1} lin. long; lobes 
acuminate, ciliate ; corolla white, minutely and obscurely puberulous 
without beneath the lower (anterior) lobe, otherwise glabrous, 
11-2 lin. long, later raised as a calyptra by the ripening fruit ; 
upper lip erect, bifid; lower larger than the upper, obscurely 
3-lobed with the middle lobe oblong, about } lin. long; pyrene 
very shortly oblong, plano-convex, flattened at the commissure, 
acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, glabrous, minutely Tugose, 
3 lin. long. Walp. Rep. iv. 49 ; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 585; 
C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 568; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 279. Verbena nodiflora, Linn. Sp. Pl. 20; 
Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 6, fig.1. V. capitata, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 
10. Blairea nodiflora, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 266, t. 56. Zapania nodi- 
flora, Lam, Til. 59, t. 17, fig. 3; R. Br. Prodr. i. 514; Hochst. in 
Flora, 1845, 68. 
Eastern ReoGion: Natal; Mount Edgecumbe, Wood, 1127! Durban, Reh- 
mann, 8814! Gerrard and McKen, 817! in sandy places near the mouth of the 
Umlaas (Umlazi) River, Krauss, 182! in sandy places near the seashore, between 
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