204 -VERBENACES® (Pearson). [ Bouchea. 
anterior face, oblong, surrounded by an entire bevelled margin, 
about 12 lin, long. Buchnera cernua, Linn. Mant. 251; Thunb. 
Prodr. 100, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 466. Chascanum cernuum, 
E, Meyer, Comm. 276; Hochst, in Flora, 1845, 68. 
- Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Masson! Grey! Forbes! Boivin, 
647! Roxburgh ! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Simonstown, near Oatlands, Wolley Dod, 634! 
rocky places on the hills behind Fish Hoek, near False Bay, MacOwan & Bolus, 
Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 242! by a stream at Smitswinkel Bay, Wolley Dod, 
1308! Simons Bay, MacWilliam! Caledon Div.; mountains near Hemel en 
Aarde, 500-2000 ft.. Zeyher, 3548! Riversdale Div.; near Karmelks River, 
Drége! Milkwood Fontein, 600 ft., Galpin, 4422! Uitenhage Div.; in sandy 
places near Winterhoek Mountains, Krauss, 1086! 
10. B. glandulifera (H. H. W. Pearson); a low glaucous under- 
shrub, 1-2 ft. high ; stem much branched, subangular, glabrous, 
with internodes 14-3 in. long; leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong or 
subrhomboid, obtuse, with margins obtusely incised, glabrous, thick, 
with 2-3 indistinet ascending primary nerves on each side, 3-1 in. 
long, 1—% in. broad ; petiole slender, 4—7 lin. long; raceme dense, 
bracteate, glabrous, 1-2 in. long (immature), bearing numerous 
flowers; bracts subulate, acute, with flat membranous margins 
bearing stalked capitate glands on the upper surface and margins, 
about 23 lin. long; bracteoles subulate, minute, glabrous; calyx- 
tube erect, prominently ridged, glandular, nearly black when dry, 
31-4 lin. long; teeth triangular, glandular, about 1 lin. long ; 
corolla-tube curved, glabrous without, glandular within in the upper 
two-thirds, about 3 in. long; glands capitate with long minutely 
tubereulate stalk-cells which are shorter near the mouth than in the 
lower part of the tube; lobes unequal, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
emarginate, glabrous, 1-11} lin. long; filaments short, glandular ; 
ovary oblong, glabrous; fruit not seen. 
Katanart Region: Little Bushman Land! Stickhand, Schlechter, 76! 
In the absence of fruit, this species is provisionally placed in section Chascamum 
on account of the presence of bracteoles. f 
11. B. namaquana (Bolus); a low, branched, livid or slate- 
coloured undershrub, 3-1 ft. high; stem terete, finely adpressed- 
pubescent ; leaves shortly petiolate, cuneate or oblong-cuneate, obtuse, 
coarsely 3-5-toothed or -crenate towards the apex, rather thick, 
with obsolete nerves, finely adpressed-puberulous, 5-7 lin. long, 
21-3} lin. broad ; raceme lax, with a finely pubescent axis, bearing 
few reddish-yellow very shortly pedicelled flowers, about 1 in. long ; 
bracts linear, obtuse or subacute, thick, finely pubescent, 22 lin. 
long ; bracteoles subulate, pubescent, % lin. long; calyx unequally 
toothed, finely adpressed-pubescent without, glabrous within, 5-6 lin, 
long; corolla-tube straight, glabrous, about 1 in. long; lobes oblong, 
emarginate, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad; _ filaments 
glandular-puberulous ; fruit oblong, slightly narrowed towards the 
apex, finely seulptured, 3-3; lin. long, 1} lin. broad, not separating 
