336 LABIATA (Skan). | Acrotome. 
entire or 1—3-toothed at the apex obtuse, narrowed at the base, 
rather thick, shortly hispid, scabrous; petiole up to 3 lin. long; 
whorls 2—5 at the ends of the stems or branches, 4-7 lin. apart, 
6—10-flowered; bracts linear, 14-1? lin. long, ciliate; calyx sub- 
sessile, tubular, slightly incurved, 31 lin. Jong, nearly equal at the 
_ mouth, 10-11-nerved, 8-11-toothed, rather densely covered with 
short stiff spreading hairs ; teeth unequal or nearly equal, subulate, 
often with a deltoid base, }—? lin. long, rather thick; corolla white, 
45-5 lin. long, retrorsely villous outside; tube about 3 lin. long, 
slightly curved ; upper lip broadly ovate, deeply concave, 13-2 lin. 
long, shortly ciliate, entire ; lower lip 3 lin. long; median lobe 
broadly ovate, 1} lin. long, 24-23 lin. broad, crenulate ; lateral 
lobes about 1} lin. long and 1 lin. broad, rounded. 
Katanari Recon: Transvaal ; Barberton, Thorneroft, 3124! 
4. A. hispida (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 436); an erect or 
ascending branched herb 3 or 4 in. high, everywhere densely hispid, 
sometimes rather woody at the base; leaves very shortly petiolate, 
obovate or sometimes ovate, }-} in. long, 14-4 lin. broad, obtuse, 
narrowed at the base, quite entire or few-toothed at the apex; 
whorls usually 2—4, somewhat distant, 6—10-flowered ; bracts linear, 
as long as the calyx ; calyx subcampanulate, hispid, 3-34 lin. long ; 
teeth 7-10, deltoid or subulate, unequal, $—-14 lin. long, acute, 
somewhat spinescent ; corolla 4 lin. long ; tube 23 lin. long, densely 
villous on the upper part; upper lip 14 lin. long, ovate, hirsute, 
emarginate ; lower lip 14-2 lin. long; median lobe suborbicular, 
1 lin. long, about 14 lin. broad. 
Katanari Recion : Transvaal ; near Schoen Spruit, Burke! Vaal River, Burke! 
Aapies River, Burke! near Carolina, 5000-5600 £t., Burtt-Davy, 7397! Bolus, 
12243! Krugers Post, in Lydenburg District, Burtt-Dary, 7296 ! near Lydenburg, 
Wilms, 1135! Witbank, Middelburg District, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 7231 ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal, Gerrard, 1220! 
Bentham in DC. Prodr. xii. 436 distinguished two varieties of A. hispida: 
Var. elongata, with lax stems, 6-8 in, long and shorter hairs (Burke, Vaal River) ; 
Var, obliqua, with shorter hairs, and suboblique calyx with shorter teeth (Burke, 
Aapies River). 
XIX. STACHYS, Linn. 
Calyx tubular-campanulate, campanulate or sometimes funnel- 
shaped, 5- or 10-nerved, equal or oblique at the mouth, rarely more 
or less distinctly 2-lipped ; teeth 5, subequal. Corolla-tube cylindric 
to narrowly funnel-shaped, often enlarged at the mouth, included or 
exserted, straight or incurved, naked inside or more or less perfectly 
annular-pilose near the base; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip erect or 
ascending, usually concave or arched, entire or very shortly 
emarginate ; lower lip spreading or deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, (the lower pair longer), ascending under the upper lip, 
