194 VERBENACE® (Pearson.) | Lippia. 
Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drége / and without precise locality, 
Sanderson, 384! Zululand; without precise locality, Gerrard, 511! Delagoa 
Bay; without precise locality, Forbes! Junod, 257. 
Common in waste places in the warmer regions of both hemispheres, 
The South African specimens include Schauer’s two varieties, sarmentosa and 
repens with intermediate’ forms. ‘ 
2. L. reptans (H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 263); a creeping 
perennial herb, obscurely pubescent with closely-adpressed hairs 
similar in form to those of S. nodiflora ; stem prostrate and rooting 
at the nodes or ascending, terete or subterete ; internodes about 
1 in. long; leaves opposite, petiolate, obovate, cuneate and entire 
towards the base, coarsely and acutely serrate-dentate towards the 
rounded or acute apex with obseure ascending primary lateral nerves, 
punctate-glandular, about # in. long, 3-1 in. broad; spike ovoid, 
solitary, about 4 lin. long, 2-3 lin. in diam.; peduncle slender, 
terete, glabrescent, 2-23 in. long; bracts herbaceous, shorter than 
the flowers, obovate-cuneate or suborbicular, shortly caudate-acumi- 
nate, keeled, with a ciliate membranous margin, glabrous above, 
pubescent beneath, 13-2 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad; calyx with 
2 short acuminate ciliate lobes, compressed, mitre-shaped, pubes- 
cent on the keels with simple spreading hairs attached by their bases, 
elsewhere thinly membranous, minutely pubescent or glabrous, 
1-12 lin. long; corolla white becoming red, glabrous, 23—3 lin. long ; 
posterior lobe erect, broadly oblong, shortly bifid; anterior obseurely 
3-lobed ; ovary and style 4—% lin. long; pyrene (immature) ovoid, 
flattened at the commissure, * lin. long, 1—} lin. broad. Walp. Rep. 
iv. 48; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 584. L. strigulosa, Mart. et Gal. 
in Bull. Acad. Roy. Brux. xi. (1844) 319. 
eee, Reaion : Cape Div. ; damp ground in Raapenberg Vley, Wolley Dod, 
A native of the West Indies and Tropical America; introduced into South 
Africa, 
3. L. scaberrima (Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 87) ; an erect aromatic 
scabrid shrub, 1-2 ft. high; stem and branches tetragonal, striate, 
seabrid, glandular ; leaves opposite, narrowly lanceolate, or elliptic- 
lanceolate, narrowed into the very short petiole, 3-nerved at the 
base, with margins scabrid, entire towards the base, crenate-serrulate 
from about the middle to the apex, subacute, scabrid on both 
surfaces, with the primary nerves impressed above, prominent 
beneath, profusely punctate-glandular, 1-11 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad ; 
spike ovoid, solitary, up to 6 lin. long, 2-5 lin. in diam. ; peduncle 
striate, scabrid-puberulous, 1-2 in. long; bracts exceeding the 
flowers, broadly ovate, shortly cuspidate, sometimes rounded and 
obtuse at the apex, with numerous parallel nerves, glandular, 
puberulous or pubescent, with an entire ciliate margin, 2-5 lin. 
long, 11-3 lin. broad; calyx 2-lobed, compressed, mitre-shaped, 
pubescent without, glabrous within, 1-1 as long as the corolla ; 
lobes acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 1—} lin, long; corolla 
