Clerodendron. | VERBENACE® (Pearson). 221 
4-6 lin. broad. (C. natulense, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 183. 
Cyclonema triphyllum, Harvey, Thes. Cap. i. 17, t. 27. 
- Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Zeyher, 1362! 1363! 
KataHAri ReGion: Orange River Colony; high situations near the Sand and 
Vals (Valsch) Rivers, Barber, 744! and without precise locality, Cooper, 897! 
Transvaal; Aapies Poort, near Pretoria, Relmann, 4236! Wonderboom Poort, 
near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4560! in fields near Pretoria, 4000 ft., McLea in Herb. 
Bolus, 3187! Magalies Berg, Burke, 117! 365! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 
1153! Jeppes Ridges, near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 
6166! grassy plains around Barberton, 2500-4000 ft., Galpin, 506! Pilgrims 
Rest, Greenstock ! and without precise locality, Tuck, 7 ! 
EasteRN ReGion: Natal; Klip River, 3500-4500 ft., Sutherland! near 
Newcastle, Wilms, 2196! near Pieter Maritzburg, Wilms, 2125! near Gourton, 
amongst grass, 8000-4000 ft., Wood! Zululand; without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 1251 ! 
4, C. hirsutum (H. H. W. Pearson); a low undershrub up to 
11 ft. high; stems erect from a woody rootstock, simple or branched 
at the base, 4-angled, hirsute ; leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, 
sessile or very shortly petioled, membranous, elliptic or oblong, 
acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, with an 
entire ciliate margin, more or less hirsute, profusely glandular, with 
1-3 primary lateral nerves on each side, 3-11 in. long, 2-5 lin. 
broad ; cymes 1—2-flowered, pedunculate, axillary; peduncle solitary, 
slender, with 2 opposite linear or linear-lanceolate braets near the 
summit, hirsute, 3-12 in. long; flowers pedicelled, sky-blue 
(Gerrard) ; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, obscurely 5-ribbed, more or 
less hirsute, about 2 lin. long, the tube equalling the lanceolate 
hirsute segments; corolla about } in. long; tube bent, villous 
within at the throat, otherwise glabrous, 11-2} lin. long; 4 upper 
lobes subequal, cuneate or subrotund ; lower oblong-cuneate, obtuse, 
exceeding the upper; stamens scarcely exserted ; filaments glabrous ; 
ovary densely hirsute, later glabrescent; drupe not seen. Cyelo- 
nema? hirsutum, Hochst. in Flora, 1842, 228, and 1845, 68; Walp. 
Rep. iv. 101; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 676. 
Van. f, ciliatum (H. H. W. Pearson); stems glabrous or glabrescent ; adult 
leaves ciliate, otherwise glubrous, or with a few scattered hairs near the margins ; 
peduncles glabrous ; bracts and calyx-lobes ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Cyclo- 
nema ciliatum, Harv. MSS, 
Eastern Reeion: Griqualand East; near the River Ibisi, 2500 ft., Tyson in 
MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1516! Natal ; in grassy plains between the 
Umlaas (Umlazi) River and Durban Bay, Krauss, 106! near Greytown, Wilms, 
2197! Pieter Maritzburg, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland! near Durban, 30°0- 
4000 ft., Sutherland! Gerrard and McKen, 800! Inanda, Wood, 41! and 
without precise locality, Gerrard, 324! Swaziland; Havelock Concession, 
4C00 ft., Salémarshe in Herb. Galpin, 985! var B: Natal; Umgeni Falls, 
Sanderson! Attercliffe, Sanderson, 243! and without precise locality, Sander- 
son, 237! 
5. ©. spinescens (Giirke in Engl. Jahrb, xviii. 180); a shrub; 
branches terete, densely pubescent, frequently armed with axillary or 
supra-axillary straight or recurved pubescent spines shorter than the 
