. 
Bouchea. | VERBENACE® (Pearson). 203 
Var. 8, glabrescens (H. H. W. Pearson) ; leaves adpressed-puberulous along 
the margins and occasionally on the nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous, 
47-84 in. long; raceme puberulons; corolla pale-pink. 
EASTERN RecGion: Natal; Noods Berg, Wood, 106! on grassy slopes of 
Bothas Hill, 2100 ft., Wood in Herb. Natal Bot. Gard., 553! Wood in Mac- 
Owan, Herb, Aust.-Afr., 1511! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
Zululand ; on dry plains, Gerrard, 1247! 
KatLanaRi Reeion: Var. 8, Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Kaap 
Valley plains, at the foot of Devils Kantoor, near Barberton, 3000 ft., Galpin, 
666! on grassy hills near the Crocodile River, Mitford Barber, 9! 
8. B. garepensis (Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 560); an erect 
glabrous undershrub, 2-3 ft. high; stem subangular, striate, with 
internodes 2-3 in. long; leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate, 
oblong-ovate or obovate, shortly cuneate at the base, thick, coarsely 
obtusely and deeply dentate-serrate,, 1—1 in. long, 2-5 lin. broad ; 
raceme narrow, elongate, bearing numerous crowded erect adpressed 
flowers, 1-1 ft. long; bracts linear-subulate, puberulous on the 
margin, otherwise glabrous, 3 lin. long; bracteoles setaceous, } lin. 
long ; calyx shortly and unequally toothed, glabrous without, puberu- 
lous within, 3-4 lin. long ; corolla-tube straight or slightly curved, 
puberulous within at the throat, otherwise glabrous, 8 lin. long ; 
lobes broad, 1-13 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; filaments glandular- 
puberulous ; fruit oblong, slightly curved, reticulately sculptured, 
1} lin. long, 1—% lin, broad, not separating into 2 cocci when mature ; 
areole bounded by a dentate margin, covering nearly half the 
anterior face of the fruit. Chascanum garipense, E. Meyer, Comm. 
i. 277. 
Western Region: Namaqualand; sandy flats near the Auraap River, 
Atherstone, 18! rugged hills by the Orange River near Verleptpram, Drége ! 
and without precise locality, Wylie, 98! 
A small-leaved variety occurs in Lower Guinea, see Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. v. 282. 
9. B. cernua (Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 559); a low much 
branched undershrub, 1-2 ft. high; branches angular, pubescent 
along 2 opposite lines alternating in successive internodes ; internodes 
4-1 in. long; leaves whorled, rarely opposite, crowded, imbricate, 
sessile, oblong, cuneate and entire towards the base, acutely 
3-7-toothed at the rounded apex, thick, coriaceous, puberulous on 
the midrib beneath near the base, otherwise glabrous, punctate- 
glandular, 3% in. long, 3-5 lin. broad; raceme puberulous, 2-3 in. 
long, bearing numerous white flowers , bracts linear-lanceolate, 
acute, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, with ciliate margins, 3 lin. 
long, about 1 lin. broad; bracteoles subulate, ciliate, 1 lin. long ; 
calyx-tube 5-toothed, glabrous without, minutely puberulous within, 
33-4 lin. long; teeth subequal, triangular-subulate, ciliate, } lin, 
long ; corolla-tube curved, glabrous without, softly hairy in the 
throat, about * in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 2 lin. long : 
filaments glandular-puberulous ; fruit oblong, black when ripe, 
3-2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, with the posterior face strongly 
curved, longitudinally. grooved and finely reticulate ; areole on the 
