196 VERBENACE® (Pearson). (Lippia. 
near Durban, Gerrard and McKen, 638! near the Tugela River, Gerrard, 635! 
and without precise locality, Cooper, 1006! Gerrard, 61! Grant! 
Native name “Um-Suswane’’; used medicinally (J. Medley Wood, Ann, Rep. 
Col. Herb. 1892). In British Kaffraria known as “‘ Fever-tea.” 
Also in Tropical Africa and Tropical America. 
5, L. Wilmsii (H. H. W. Pearson); an erect shrub, 1-2 ft. high ; 
stem terete or subangular, scabrid-pubescent, glandular; leaves 
opposite, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
cuneately narrowed into the short petiole, serrate, rugose, with 
5-7 ascending primary nerves on each side impressed above, promi- 
nent beneath, scabrid-pubeseent above and on the primary and 
seeondary nerves beneath, elsewhere glabrous, punctate-glandular, 
1-8 in. long, 1-2 in. broad; spikes subglobose, solitary or in pairs, 
up to 7 lin, long, 3-4 lin. in diam. ; peduncle terete towards the 
base, tetragonal above, striate, glandular, pubescent or scabrid- 
pubescent, 2-14 in. long; bracts narrowly ovate with a truncate 
base, acuminate, pubescent, glandular; outer ones 4 lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad, inner 23-3 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad; calyx truneate or 
obscurely 4-toothed, with 4 distinct nerves, pubescent without, 
glabrous within, 3-12 lin. long; corolla pubescent without in the 
upper part, more densely so in the lateral regions, glandular, glabrous 
within, about twice as long as the calyx; lobes entire, the anterior 
larger; ovary and style 11-15 lin. long; pyrene shortly oblong, 
plano-convex, flattened at the commissure, smooth or very delicately 
sculptured, glabrous, 1 lin. long, 3—% lin. broad. 
KALAHARI Region: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1180! 
The following Tropical African specimens also belong to this species, which 
should be added to the Flora of Tropical Africa :—British Hast Africa : Ukamba ; 
Scott-Elliot, 6484! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Zomba, 4000- 
6000 ft., Whyte/ and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1381! Rhodesia : 
Inyanga Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Hvelyn Cecil, 219! 
6. L. Rehmanni (H. H. W. Pearson); an ereet shrub, much_ 
branched above, exceeding 1 ft. in height ; adult stems tetragonal, 
striate, scabrid-pubescent, with rounded angles; internodes 1-2 in. 
long ; leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petioled, elliptic, cuneate at 
the base, acute or obtuse, with crenate-serrate slightly recurved 
margins, with 5 ascending primary nerves on each side impressed 
above, prominent beneath, rugose, scabrid-pubescent above and on 
the nerves and veins beneath, punctate-glandular, 1-14 in. long, 
5-6 lin, broad ; spike (in fruit) cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, with a 
pubescent axis, solitary, up to 7 lin. long, 3 lin, in diam. ; peduncle 
terete in the lower 4, dilated and tetragonal above, pubescent, 4-1 in. 
long ; bracts broadly ovate or obovate, with a truncate base, shortly 
acuminate, densely pubescent, 14-14 lin. long, 1 lin. broad ; calyx 
subtruncate or with 2 very short rounded lobes, distinctly nerved, 
densely pubescent without, glabrous within, 1 lin. long; corolla 
pubescent without and within above the middle, 12 lin. long; pyrene 
