304 LABIAT (Cooke). | Mentha. 
verticils close, very shortly pedunculate ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 
acute, 1 lin. long, more or less hairy ; pedicels 1 lin, long ; calyx 
114 lin. long, tubular-campanulate, 10-nerved, densely pubescent ; 
teeth 4-} lin. long, subulate from a triangular base and sepa- 
rated by a rather wide sinus; corolla 2 lin, long; lobes about 
3 lin. long, upper lobe suborbicular, emarginate, the others narrowly 
elliptic, obtuse. M. silvestris, subsp. polyadena, Brig. Fragm. Monogr. 
Lab. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Grenév. v. 84. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; near Pretoria, Wilms, 1142! Miss Leendertz, 
420! along the Aapies River, Burtt Davy, 1077! 2 
Supsp. capensis (Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, 
321); whole plant 16-24 in. high; stem pubescent, branched 
above; branches erect; leaves subtriangular, acute, broadest 
and more or less cordate at the base, sessile or subsessile, entire 
or rarely toothed, reaching 3 in. long, } in. broad, densely 
adpressedly pubescent above, white-tomentose beneath; nerves 
impressed on the upper surface rendering it rugose, prominent on 
the lower ; flowers hermaphrodite, mauve (Galpin) ; racemes spike- 
like, 1-3 in. long ; verticils close above, often more or less distant 
in the lower part of the raceme; bracts linear-subulate ; pedicels 
very short, retrorsely pilose; calyx 5 in. long, hairy with 
forward-pointing hairs; teeth } lin. long, triangular, hairy ; upper 
tooth broader than the others, emarginate ; lower teeth subequal, 
oblong, rounded at the apex; corolla externally pubescent, about 
1 lin. longer than the calyx. M. capensis, Thunb. Prodr. 95; 
subsp. capensis, Brig. Fragm. Monogr. Lab. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genév. 
v. 75. 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div.; kloof on the west slope of Lions Head, Wolley 
Dod, 23371 Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Pappe! Uitenhage Div. ; by 
the Witte River, near Enon, Drége, 4766c! Albany Div., Bowker ! Queenstown 
nada near Shiloh, Baur, 53! 946! watercourses on the Andriesberg, Galpin, 
CentTRAL Raion: Ceres Div.; Prince Alfred, Schlechter, 9985! Somerset 
Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker, 97! by streams at the foot of the Bosch Berg, 
MacOwan, 225! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Compass Berg, Shaw! Aliwal North Div. ; 
Witteberg Range, Drége, 4766a! Colesberg, Shaw ! 
WESTERN ReGion : Namaqualand, Wyley ! 
Katanari Recion: Griqualand West ; Ongeluk, Burchell, 2645 ! 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East ; Vaal Bank, Wood, 4198 ! 
Var. a, salicina (Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, 321); leaves 
distinctly petiolate, narrow. Mentha salicina, Benth. Lab. 170, and in DU. Prodr. 
xii. 168. 
CrentraL Recion: Sutherland Div. ; by the great Riet River, Burchell, 1372! 
Var. B, Cooperi (Briq. mss. in Herb. Kew.) ; leaves sessile; densely tomentose 
beneath ; nervation not very prominent beneath ; lower verticils as much as ? in. 
apart ; spike-like racemes reaching 6 in. long. 
Coast Reaton: Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 555! 
Var. y, obseuriceps (Briq. Fragm. Monog. Lab. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 695) ; 
leaves sessile, lanceolate, with straight margins; nervation simply pinnate, 
prominent beneath ; marginal teeth small, distant ; verticils close ; calyx-teeth 
4 in. long. 
