302 LABIATA (Brown). | Lhoza. 
exserted, nearly equal, about } lin. long; style slightly exserted, 
very much thickened and curved or distorted at the apical part, 
bifid at the apex, with the stigmas applied to each other ; female 
flowers with the corolla very small, scarcely equalling the bracts ; 
tube 4 lin. long, about 4 lin. in diam. at the mouth; lower lobe 
about 4 lin. long, broadly ovate, otherwise as in the male; stamens 
none; style much exserted, comparatively rather stout; stigmas 
about 4 lin. long, rather stout, widely spreading. 
Kaanari Recion: South African Gold Fields, Baines ! 
4. I. brevispicata (N. E. Br.); panicle of the male plant (the 
only part seen) 9-13 in. long, 4-5 in. in diam., somewhat laxly 
branched, very shortly and densely pubescent, nearly leafless when 
in flower, the only leaves on the specimen seen being two of the 
uppermost, 4 in. long, } in. broad, ovate, obtuse, rounded into a 
short petiole, obtusely toothed, not or scarcely rugose above, 
reticulated with very prominent veins beneath, puberulous on both 
sides with hairs shorter than the thickness of the veins beneath ; 
flowers crowded into dense spikes }—3 in. long and rather more than 
4 in. thick ; bracts caducous, 3—-} lin. long, ¢-1 lin. broad, sessile, 
broadly subcordate-ovate, acute, densely puberulous ; pedicels very 
minute, not more than | lin. long; calyx rather less than } lin. 
long, cup-like, 3-lobed, puberulous, ciliate, covered outside with 
yellow glands; dorsal lobe broader than long, rounded, obtuse, 
rather smaller than the shortly and acutely bifid lateral lobes ; 
corolla unequally 5-lobed, puberulous outside, apparently rosy-purple ; 
tube 2 lin. long, funnel-shaped, slightly curved ; lower lobe larger 
than the rest, 2 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong, obtusely rounded at 
the apex; stamens 4, exserted; anthers dark violet ; ovary be- 
coming abortive ; style bifid, with linear stigmas. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal ; among rocks, summit of nek on Wonderboom 
Farm, near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 1844 ! 
5. I. Barbere (N. E. Br.); stems erect, probably tall, terete, 
very minutely puberulous, soft to the touch ; leaves very imperfectly 
represented and not more than 3 in. long on the specimens seen 
shortly petiolate, suborbicular or broadly ovate, coarsely toothed, 
bullate-rugose and slightly scabrous above, densely tomentose 
beneath ; male panicle composed of several spike-like branches 
14-4 in. long, 35-4 lin. in diam., with densely crowded 6-flowered 
whorls ; female plant not seen ; bracts 14—12 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, 
triangular-ovate, acute, very broadly and shortly cuneate at the 
base, densely pubescent or subtomentose on the back, ciliate with 
rather long hairs; pedicels about } lin. long ; calyx nearly § lin. 
long, 5-lobed to half-way down, tomentose, long-ciliate on the lobes ; 
upper lobe broadly deltoid-ovate, obtuse; 4 lower lobes deltoid, 
acute ; corolla unequally 5-lobed, tomentose outside ; tube 1} lin. 
long, } lin. in diam. at the mouth, narrowly funnel-shaped ; lobes 
