Stachys. | LABIAT (Skan). 343 
cordate at the base, regularly crenate, shortly greyish-velvety- 
pilose, especially beneath ; teeth usually 20-25 each side; petiole 
6-17 lin. long; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, longer than or 
about as long as the calyx; whorls 2—8-flowered, many, distant, in 
a spike up to 6 in. long ; calyx campanulate, 24-34 lin. long, softly 
pilose ; teeth narrowly lanceolate-triangular, 1-13 lin. long, acumi- 
nate-spinescent ; corolla white or tinted with lilac, pubescent ; tube 
rather narrow, 34—4 lin. long ; upper lip elliptic, 13-2} lin. long; 
lower lip 24-34 lin. long. Benth. in DC. Prodr, xii. 475. 
Coast Reaton: Swellendam Div. ; near Grootvaders Bosch, 1000-4000 ft., 
Zeyher, 3536! Queenstown Div. ; Chumie (Tyumie) Mountain, Zcklun! and 
without precise locality, Cooper, 343 ! 
CenTRAL Reaction: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, 3000-4000 ft., MacOwan, 1494! 
1499! Graaff Reinet Div. ; Sneeuwberg Range, 3800 ft., Bolus, 1969! 
Ka.anari Reqion: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1118 ! 
Eastern Recron: Transkei; around Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 434! 
Pondoland ; between Umtata River and Umtsikaba River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 
4781la! 47816. Natal; Polela, Fourcade, 4556! Durban, Gerrard, 2042! 
4. §. Cooperi (Skan in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 420); stem 
herbaceous, decumbent, very weak, branched, 1-2 ft. long, 3~} 
lin. thick, rather softly pubescent or sparingly hispidulous ; 
branches very slender, up to 1 ft. long or more; internodes 
14-21 in. rarely up to 6 in. long; leaves ovate, the larger 
14-2 in. long and 14-12 ‘in. broad, acute or obtuse at the apex, 
openly and deeply cordate at the base, regularly and shallowly 
crenate, sparingly and softly pubescent or more sparingly hispidu- 
lous, sometimes almost glabrous beneath, very thin ; teeth usually 
12-15 each side ; petiole very slender, }-1} in. long; bracts shortly 
petiolate to subsessile, the lower ovate and longer than the calyx, 
the upper linear-lanceolate and shorter than the calyx ; whorls few, 
6-flowered, distant ; pedicels up to } lin. long; bracteoles minute ; 
calyx campanulate, 23-4} lin. long, rather densely and softly pubes- 
cent or sparingly hispidulous ; teeth linear-triangular, 14-2 lin. 
long, $ to nearly | lin. broad at the base, often distinctly spreading, 
sometimes bent at the needle-like apex ; corolla white, pubescent ; 
tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 34-4} lin. long, curved; upper lip 
elliptic, 23-3} lin. long, entire, keeled on the back; lower lip 
4-41 lin, long ; median lobe suborbicular to obovate, 1-3 lin. long, 
21-41} lin. broad ; lateral lobes ovate, }-1} lin. long. 
Coast Reaion : Albany Div., Cooper, 15! 
Eastern Recon: Transkei; in forests near Kentani, 1200 ft., Miss Pegler, 
908! 
5. 8. Bolusii (Skan) ; a perennial herb ; stem erect or ascending, 
branched, up to 18 in. high or more, covered as well as the 
branches, especially on the angles, with rather long slender whitish 
hairs; internodes 3-4 in. long; leaves deltoid-ovate, the larger 
1-3 in. long and 3—1} in. broad, obtuse or rounded, deeply and 
openly cordate at the base, regularly sometimes coarsely crenate, 
somewhat densely covered, especially above, with rather short soft 
