Lippia.| VERBENACES (Pearson), 197 
semiglobose or shortly obovoid, plano-convex, flattened at the 
commissure, glabrous, }—% lin, Jong. 
KALAHARI ReGion: Transvaal ; hills above Aapies River, Rehmann, 4259 ! 
7. L. bazeiana (H. H. W. Pearson) ; a low erect shrub; adult 
stems terete, striate, glandular, scabrid-puberulous or -pubescent ; 
leaves opposite, shortly petioled, ovate, acute or obtuse, coarsely 
serrate, slightly rugose, with 4-5 ascending primary nerves on each 
side impressed above, prominent beneath, scabrid above and on the 
prineipal nerves beneath, punctate-glandular, 13-27 in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad ; spike globose, solitary, up to 8 lin. long, about 4 lin. in diam. ; 
peduncle angular, 4-grooved, scabrid-puberulous or -pubescent, 
12-2 in, long; bracts ovate, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, densely 
pubescent and profusely glandular, 14-3 lin. long ; calyx compressed, 
very shortly 2-lobed, adpressed-pubescent without, glabrous within, 
1-8 lin. long; lobes rounded ; corolla pubescent without in the 
upper part, puberulous within, about 2 lin. long; anterior lobe broad, 
entire or subemarginate ; posterior sinuate, smaller than the anterior ; 
ovary and style about 1 lin. long; pyrene shortly oblong, plano- 
convex, flattened at the commissure, smooth, glabrous, } lin. long, 
3-1 lin. broad. 
Eastern Recton: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 462! 
8. L. pretoriensis (H. H. W. Pearson) ; an erect shrub exeeeding 
11 ft. in height; adult stems tetragonal, striate, scabrid-pubescent, 
with rounded glabrescent angles; internodes about 21 in. long ; 
leaves opposite, shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong, more or less narrowed 
at both ends, obtuse, with crenate thickened and recurved margins, 
with 4-6 ascending primary nerves on each side impressed above, 
prominent beneath, scabrid-puberulous above, scabrid-pubescent on 
the nerves and veins beneath, punctate-glandular, 2-2} in. long, 
8 in. broad; spike small, globose, with a glabrous axis, solitary, 
2-21 lin. in diam. ; peduncle slender, terete, pubescent, 1}-1} in. 
long; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, with a truncate or sub- 
cordate base, 3-7-nerved at the base, with a prominent midrib, 
pubescent; outer ones 23-3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, inner 13-2 lin. 
long, 3-1 lin, broad ; calyx very shortly 2-lobed with rounded lobes, 
glabrous within, pubescent without and on the margin, 3—% lin. long; 
corolla densely pubescent on the outside above the middle, glabrous 
within, 1-2 lin. long ; fruit not seen. 
KALAHARI Rucion : Transvaal; Wonderboom Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 
4523! 
VIII. BOUCHEA, Chamisso. 
Calyx narrowly tubular, prominently 5-ribbed, obliquely truncate 
or 5-toothed, usually becoming more or less dilated below as the fruit 
ripens, at length splitting longitudinally in front. Corolla: tube 
long, slender, cylindric, slightly widening at the throat, straight or 
