Bouchea. | VERBENACE (Pearson), 205 
into 2 cocci when ripe; areole oblong, on the anterior face, 
surrounded by a dentate margin, about 2 lin. long. 
WestEeRN Region: Little Namaqualand; on the stony slopes of Spektakel 
Mountain, 2500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herd. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 680! 
12. B. pumila (Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 560); a low erect 
undershrub; stem terete, clothed with fine reflexed pubescence ; 
leaves ovate-oblong, petiolate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, coarsely 
remotely and deeply dentate or dentate-serrate, finely reflexed-pubes- 
cent, rather thick, with obscure nerves, 3-1 in. long, 1-1 in. broad; 
petiole jin. long; spike short, finely pubescent, bearing few subsessile 
flowers, }—} in. long ; bracts ovate, acuminate, acute, finely puberulous 
above, pubescent beneath, 11 lin. long, 4 lin. broad; bracteoles 
subulate, finely pubescent, * lin. long; calyx subequally 5-toothed, 
obscurely 5-ridged, clothed with a fine spreading or reflexed pubes- 
cence without, minutely puberulous within, 6-7 lin. long ; corolla- 
tube narrow, straight, glabrous without, puberulous within in the 
upper part, 9-13 lin. long; lobes oblong, finely puberulous, 12 lin. 
long, 1 lin, broad;. filaments glandular-puberulous; fruit oblong, 
finely and reticulately sculptured, 21-33 lin. long, 1-11 lin. broad, 
not separating spontaneously into 2 coeci when ripe; areole on: the 
anterior face, bounded by a dentate margin. B. pubescens, Schauer 
in DC. Prod. xi. 560. Chascanum pumilum, EF. Meyer, Comm. 
277. : 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Bowker ! 
CENTRAL ReeGion: Calvinia Div. ; between Lospers Plaats and Springbok Kuil 
River, Zeyher, 1366! Prince Albert Div.; hills between Blauw Krans and 
Wilgebosch Fontein, 2500-8000 ft., Drége, 4856 ! 
WEsTERN ReE@Ion: Great Namaqualand; in the dry bed of Scap River, 
Schinz, 48! and without precise locality, Schinz, 46! Little Namaqualand, 
Scully, 240! 
Katanart Reon: Hay Div.; on the Asbestos Mountains, between Reit 
Fontein and Kloof Village, Burchell, 2017! Transvaal; on the Boshveld at 
Elands River, Rehmann, 4995! 
13. B. pinnatifida (Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 560) ; a low under- 
shrub, much branched at the base, about 1 ft. high; branches terete, 
densely and finely pubescent; leaves opposite or subopposite, 
petiolate, deeply pinnatipartite, rather thick, finely pubescent, 
1-1} in. long, 8 in. broad; segments linear, entire, obtuse or sub- 
acute, l-nerved, j—} in. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, finely 
pubescent, about 1 in. (very rarely up to 6 in.) long ; flowers white; 
bracts linear, obtuse or acute, spreading or recurved, finely pubescent, 
about 2 lin. long ; bracteoles subulate, finely pubescent, 3 lin. long; 
calyx-tube unequally and shortly 5-toothed, finely pubescent, 5 lin, 
long ; corolla-tube erect, glabrous without, puberulous in the throat, 
10 lin. long ; filaments glabrous ; fruit oblong, reticulately seulptured, 
2-3 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad; areole on the anterior face, oblong, 
surrounded by a toothed margin, 1-1} lin. long. Buchnera pinnati- 
Jida, Linn. fil. Suppl. 288 ; Murr, Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 572; Thunb. 
