200 VERBENACE® (Pearson). [ Bouchea. 
glandular hairs, about 8 in. long; bracts sessile, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, with entire membranous ciliate margins, glandular-pubescent, 
5 lin, long; calyx obliquely and unequally 5-toothed, glandular- 
pubescent without, finely pubescent within; tube 4-5 lin. long ; 
teeth not exceeding % lin. ; corolla-tube curved, glabrous without, 
villous in the throat, 14-12 in. long ; filaments glandular-puberulous; 
fruit spontaneously separating when ripe into 2 cocci 5 coccus 
cylindrie, flattened at the commissure, reticulately sculptured at the 
apex, longitudinally ridged below, 21-3 lin. long, 
KALAHARI Reaion: Transvaal; eastern slopes of the Saddleback Mountain, 
Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1171! 
3. B. hederacea (Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 86); a low under- 
shrub, branching at the base, 1-11 ft. high ; stems erect, terete, 
hirsute and glandular-pubescent; leaves opposite, subopposite or 
scattered, shortly petioled or subsessile, cuneate or cuneate-oblong, 
with margins entire in the basal half, broadly and acutely dentate 
towards the obtuse or rounded apex, glandular-pubescent, hirsute on 
the nerves beneath, with nerves impressed above, prominent beneath, 
4-1 in. long, 6-10 lin. broad; raeeme elongate, bearing many closely 
adpressed flowers, glandular-pubescent with spreading or reflexed 
hairs, 4—6 in. long ; bracts sessile, linear-acuminate, with membranous 
margins extending from the base to above the middle, glandular- 
pubescent beneath, puberulous above, ciliate on the margins, 21-3 lin, 
~ long, $—1 lin. broad near the base; bracteoles 0; calyx shortly and 
subequally 5-toothed, glandular-pubescent without, minutely puberu- 
lous within, 5-53 lin. long; corolla-tube curved, glabrous without, 
villous in the throat, 10-15 lin. long; lobes oblong or obovate, 
obtuse or somewhat emarginate, about 2 lin. long; filaments 
glandular-puberulous ; fruit separating spontaneously when ripe into 
2 cocci; coccus cylindric, somewhat flattened at the commissure, 
longitudinally ridged or striate below, reticulately sculptured above, 
2-21 lin. long, 
Var. 8, natalensis (H. H. W. Pearson) ;. leaves cuneate or cuneate-ovate, 
obtuse or rounded at the apex, hirsute on the very prominent nerves beneath, 
1-2} in. long, 3-14 in. broad ; bracts spreading or recurved at the tips. 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1867! Burke! 
between Bronkhorst Spruit and Middelburg, Wilms, 1184! Pretoria, on the 
hills above Apies River, Rehmann, 4261! Matebe Valley, Holub, 1945! 
EAsteRN Recion: Var. 8. Natal; near the Tugela River, Gerrard §° McKen, 
1246! on a rocky hill above Ladysmith, Wood, 4246 ! 
4. B. Wilmsii (Giirke in Notizblatt Konig]. bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 
(1900) 74); a low undershrub, about 1 ft. high ; stem unbranched, 
erect, terete, glandular-pubescent and sparsely villous with long soft 
white hairs; leaves opposite, shortly petioled or subsessile, cuneate- 
orbicular or -ovate, with margins entire in the basal third, coarsely 
crenate or dentate-crenate towards the rounded or obtuse apex, 
punctate-glandular, adpressed puberulous above, glandular-pubescent 
and hirsute on the nerves beneath, with the nerves depressed above, 
