206 VERBENACE (Pearson). — [Bouchea. 
Prodr. 100, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 466. Chascanum pinnatifidum, 
E. Meyer, Comm. 277. 
Sour AFRICA: without precise locality, Wallich ! Masson! 
Coast REGION : Queenstown Div. ; Gwatyn, 2900 ft., Galpin, 2018! 
CENTRAL RuGion: Carnarvon Div. ; at the northern exit of the Karree Bergen 
Poort, Burchell, 1558! Richmond Div. ; near Limoen Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., 
Drége! Graaff Reinet Div. ; stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 193! 
Albert Div.; between Leeuwen Fontein and Sleuger Fontein, 4500 ft., Drége / 
rocky hills near Burghersdorp, Mrs. Barber! Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Shaw / 
Somerset Div. ; near Somerset Hast, Bowker, 82! 
Katanari Reeion: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, near 
the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1664! 2045/2! Hunernest Kloof, Rekmann, 3392! 
Kimberley, Rehmonn, 3432! Barkly Div.; Hebron, Nelson, 188! near the 
Orange River, Burke! and without precise locality, Mrs. Barber! Transvaal ; 
northern slopes of the Magalies Berg, 6000-7000 ft., Zeyher, 1368! Burke ! 
Boshveld at Klippan, Rehmann, 5311! 
Also in German South-west Africa: Amboland? Omatope and Oshando, 
Schinz! Damaraland, Een ! Buluwayo, Rand! but not included in the Flora of 
Tropical Africa. 
IX. PRIVA, Adans. 
Calyx of the flower tubular, prominently 5-ribbed, the ribs 
terminating in short teeth, in fruit dilated below, contracted at the 
throat and closely applied to the pericarp. Corolla: tube cylindrie, 
slightly widening upwards, straight or curved; limb spreading, 
oblique, 5-lobed, sub-2-lipped, the 2 posterior lobes being usually 
shorter than the anterior. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the 
middle of the tube, included; anther-cells parallel or slightly 
divergent below; the posterior staminode minute or 0. Ovary of 
2 carpels, 4-chambered, with 1 ovule in each chamber; style filiform, 
divided at the apex into an anterior stigmatic lobe and a posterior 
minute or obsolete tooth; stigma small, oblique, lamellar. Fruit 
dry, enclosed in the dilated calyx-tube, separating when ripe into 2 
2-chambered, 2-seeded (or by abortion, 1-seeded) cocci; coccus 
hard, muricate, rugose or smooth without, flat, concave or excavated 
on the commissural face. Seed subterete, completely filling the 
chamber. 
Erect, glabrous, pubescent or villous herbs with opposite membranous toothed 
leaves ; inflorescence a simple spike or spicate raceme, terminal or axillary, 
pedunculate, elongate, slender ; flowers solitary in the axils of the small narrow 
bracts ; bracteoles minute or absent. 
About 10 species in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
1. P. leptostachya (Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. vii. 70); an erect 
branched perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high; branches slender, promi- 
nently 4-angled, striate, puberulous or pubescent, especially at the 
nodes, with fine spreading or recurved hairs; internodes 13—4 in. 
long; leaves ovate or ovate-triangular, obtuse or subacute at the 
apex, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base, petiolate, coarsely 
crenate-serrate, puberulous with delicately-hooked hairs on both 
surfaces and with a few rigid adpressed hairs above, pale beneath, 
