306 LABIAT (Cooke). [ Mentha. 
Katanari Recion: Griqualand West ; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1930! Upper 
Campbell, Burchell, 1830! Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2885! Transvaal, 
Mrs. Stainbank, 3637 ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 394! Griqualand East ; 
by streams about Clydesdale, 7'yson, 2881! on the banks of streams, Zuurberg 
Range, Tyson, 1721! Natal; Mohlamba Range, 5000-6000 ft., Sutherland ! 
Umzinati River, above the falls, 1000 ft., Wood, 1301! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 1231! Cooper, 2884! 
Widely distributed through cultivation. 
XV. MICROMERIA, Benth. 
Calyx tubular or tubular-campanulate, 13—15-nerved ; teeth sub- 
equal. Corolla-tube straight, shorter than the calyx or exserted ; 
limb short, 2-lipped; upper lip erect, nearly flat, entire or 
emarginate ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous 
(lower pair the longer), ascending, arcuate-connivent at the apex, 
shorter than the corolla or less frequently exserted and divaricate 
at the apex; anthers 2-celled ; cells distinct, parallel, divergent or 
divaricate. Disk equal or reduced to an anticous gland. Style 
bifid at the apex ; lobes equal or the upper smaller than the lower. 
Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves usually small, entire or toothed ; whorls of 
flowers axillary or crowded in a terminal spicate panicle ; flowers usually small. 
Distris. Species about 60, widely spread in both hemispheres. 
Leaves entire, 2-4 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad ; flowers 
usually in few- to many-flowered cymes; calyx 
tubular We (1) biflora. 
Leaves toothed, 6-8 lin. long, 5-6 lin. broad ; flowers 
solitary ; calyx tubular-campanulate a ... (2) pilosa. 
1. M. biflora (Benth. Lab. 378); a small tufted undershrub, 
pubescent, much-branched ; stems ascending, slender, 3-12 in. long, 
densely leafy ; leaves very shortly petiolate, elliptic to ovate- 
lanceolate, 2—4 lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, acute or somewhat obtuse, 
entire, flat or revolute, covered on the underside with yellowish 
sessile glands, fragrant; flowers solitary or usually in few- or 
several-flowered cymes; cymes subsessile or shortly pedunculate ; 
bracts linear-subulate, 3 lin. long; calyx tubular, 1 lin. long, 
prominently 15-ribbed, covered with fine spreading hairs ; teeth 
triangular-subulate, scarcely } lin. long ; corolla white, 24-3 lin. 
long, pubescent outside; upper lip } lin. long, }-1 lin. broad, 
emarginate ; lower lip 3-1} lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad ; lobes rounded, 
emarginate, DQ. Prodr. xii. 220; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
v. 452; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 406; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
iv. 650. M. ovata, Benth. Lab. 377, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 219. 
Satureia Biflora Brig. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3A, 
299. 
