Bouchea,| VERBENACEX& (Pearson). 201 
prominent beneath, 1-13 in. broad; petioles not exceeding 1 in, 
long; spike bearing many closely-adpressed flowers, densely 
glandular-pubeseent, 7-9 lin. long; bracts sessile, linear, obtuse, 
glandular-pubescent, 1-1 in, long, 3-1 lin. broad; bracteoles 0; 
calyx narrowly tubular, obliquely and unequally 5-toothed, glandular- 
pubescent without, finely puberulous within, 4-5 lin. long; teeth less 
than 1 lin. long; corolla-tube thin, slightly curved in the upper part, 
glabrous, about 1 in. long; lobes subequal, glabrous, 11 lin. broad; 
stamens inserted in the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments 
glandular-puberulous, 2—8 lin. long; fruit separating spontaneously 
when ripe into 2 cocci ; coceus cylindric, flattened at the commissure, 
longitudinally striate below the middle, finely reticulately sculptured 
near the apex, 21~3 lin. long. 
KataHari Region: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1183 (December, 
1895)! Wilms, 1188 (October, 1895). Komati Poort, Schlechter, 11771! 
Giirke (1.c,) places this species in section Chascanum, on the ground that the cocci 
are still coherent in the ripe fruit. This is not the case in the specimens 
at Kew and the British Museum (Wilms, 1183, collected in December, 1895), 
which have the fruit characters of section Rhagocarpium. Giirke further states 
that the leaves are ‘obovate’? and the bracts ‘* lanceolate,’ with which also 
our specimens do not agree. At the same time there is little doubt that our 
specimens and those quoted by Giirke belong to the same species, 
5. B. Schlechteri (Giirke in Notizblatt Kénigl. bot. Gart. Berlin, 
ili. (1900) 75); a low undershrub exceeding | ft. high ; stems erect, 
little-branched, glabrous at the base, pubescent above with very 
short reflexed rather stiff hairs ; leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, 
acuminate, narrowed at the base, entire, pubescent on both sides 
with very short reflexed rather coarse hairs, up to 12 in, long, 
2-23 lin. broad; spike short, lax-flowered, 21-31 in, long; bracts 
sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, rough with reflexed hairs, 1-2 lin. 
long; bracteoles 0; calyx narrowly tubular, shortly 5-toothed, 
shortly pubescent, 4-5 lin. long; teeth about 3 lin. long; corolla- 
tube very thin, slightly curved, 6-8 lin. long; lobes 5, subequal ; 
fruit unknown, 
Katanari ReGion: Transvaal; on the hills, near Komati Poort, Schlechter, 
11764 ! 
Of this species I have not seen a specimen. The characters of the fruit being 
unknown its position is somewhat doubtful: it is, however, provisionally placed 
here on account of the absence of bracteoles, 
6. B. cuneifolia (Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 559) ; a much branched 
low undershrub, 1-11 ft. high ; branches tetragonal, with 2 opposite 
lines of pubescence alternating in successive internodes; leaves 
broadly cuneate or oblong-cuneate, narrowed into the short petiole, 
with a rounded apex, coarsely and acutely dentate, thick, obscurely 
veined, sparsely puberulous on the margins and midrib near the base, 
otherwise glabrous, 3-1 in. long, 1-3 in, broad ; raceme lax, minutely 
puberulous, 3-6 in. long; flowers white; bracts linear-subulate, 
minutely puberulous, 1-2 lin. long; bracteoles triangular-subulate, 
