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Distrip. Species 6, in South and South Tropical Africa. 
Plant 1-14 ft. high; whorls usually solitary, densely 
very many-flowered, forming a large globose head .., (1) inflata. 
Plant 3-10 in. high ; whorls usually 2-4, 2-10-flowered : 
Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, much longer than 
broad ; plant minutely puberulous or very shortly 
pubescent : 
Calyx 5-toothed at iy one A ... (2) pallescens, 
Calyx 8-1l-toothed ... ae ive ies ... (8) Thorneroftii. 
Leaves usually obovate and often scarcely longer than 
broad ; plant densely hispid ts Se ... (4) hispida. 
1. A. inflata (Benth. in DC. Prodr, xii. 436); an erect villous 
branched annual herb 1—14 ft. high ; leaves usually shortly petiolate, 
oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, ?~2 in. long, }—1 in. 
broad or more, broadly crenate-serrate from the middle to the apex, 
‘shortly and densely pilose on both sides; whorls defsely many- 
flowered, in usually a solitary globose head ?—1 in. in diam. in the 
axils of the upper leaves ; bracts narrowly linear, pilose, somewhat 
shorter than the calyx; calyx 3-3} lin. long in flower, about 7 lin. 
long and somewhat inflated in fruit, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid or 
subulate, 1—14 lin. long, spinescent ; corolla very pale mauve, about 
as long as the calyx. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1467. 
Coast Recton: Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, about 3500 ft., Baur, 784! plains 
at Queenstown and Sterkstroom, 3500-4000 ft., Galpin, 1505! 
CrenTraL Reeron: Steynsburg Div.; Zuurberg Range, Burke! Albert Div., 
Cooper, 1882! 
Katanart Recion: Bechuanaland; Eastern Bamanguato Territory, Holub ! 
Transvaal; Linokana, Holub! near Viljoens Drift, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 
7148! Nylstroom, Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 6500! 
Also in Hereroland and Ngamiland. 
2. A. pallescens (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 436); a minutely 
puberulous branched undershrub ; branches twiggy, slender, 2}—10 
in. long; leaves very shortly petiolate, distant, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, 4—8 lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad, obtuse, narrowed at the 
base, dentate at the apex; whorls few, distant, 2—6-flowered ; 
bracts minute ; calyx 3-3} lin. long, 5-toothed, minutely puberulous ; 
teeth deltoid at the base, subulate above, }~1 lin. long, spinescent ; 
corolla about 5 lin. long, densely pilose; tube 34 lin. long, slender. 
Stachys Steingroevert, Brig. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 193, and in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. 2” sér. iii. 1096. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Drége | 7951! 
Western Reaion: Great Namaqualand, Steingroever, 11. Little Namaqualand, 
Wyley, 92! 
3. A. Thorncroftii (Skan) ; a small perennial herb, slightly woody 
at the base ; stems ascending, slender, scarcely 6 in. long, sparingly 
branched, rather densely covered with short spreadi irs, 
sparingly leafy; leaves oblong, 4-54 lin. long, 14-23 lin. broad, 
