Stachys. | LABIAT (Skan). 347 
4-1} in. apart, forming a leafy raceme up to about 6 in. long ; 
pedicels } lin. long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 4}—5 lin, long, 
somewhat densely villous; teeth narrowly triangular, 1}-2 lin. 
long, acuminate ; corolla white, 54—7 lin. long, shortly pubescent ; 
tube narrow, 4-5 lin. long, slightly enlarged upwards; upper lip 
suborbicular, 13-2 lin. long and slightly broader, entire ; lower lip 
34 lin. long; median lobe semi-orbicular, 1}—1} lin. long, 2-3 lin. 
broad ; lateral lobes broadly ovate, #-1 lin. long. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Lydenburg District, kloof near Stephan Shoe- 
manns Farm, Wilms, 1136! Crocodile Valley near Lydenburg, Burtt-Davy, 7662! 
Crocodile River, Burke ! 
Gerrard, 1223, from Natal, and a specimen collected by Mrs. K. Saunders in 
Natal have a different indumentum. ‘they possibly belong to another species. 
13. §. Rudatisii (Skan) ; a rather weak diffusely branched herb ; 
branches up to 1 ft. long or more, up to about } lin, thick, deeply 
4-furrowed, hispidulous with somewhat recurved hairs, glandular- 
puberulous ; internodes 1}-3} in. long ; leaves ovate, 3-1} in. long, 
5-13 lin. broad, obtuse, cordate at the base, regularly and shallowly 
crenate, rather densely covered on both sides with sessile or shortly 
stalked glands mixed with longer eglandular hairs ; petiole {~1 in. 
long or more ; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, longer than 
the calyx; whorls few, distant, 2-flowered ; pedicels up to } lin. 
long ; bracteoles minute; calyx nearly tubular in the flowering 
stage, afterwards tubular-campanulate, 34-3} lin. long, rather 
densely covered with short soft spreading hairs, glandular-pube- 
rulous ; teeth narrowly deltoid or broadly lanceolate, 1-1} lin, long, 
1-2 lin. broad at the base, }—} lin. broad at } lin, from the apex, 
acute, but scarcely spinescent; corolla white, puberulous ; tube 
4 lin, long, narrowly cylindric up to about 1} lin. from apex, then 
enlarged, } lin. broad below, 1} lin. broad at apex ; upper lip sub- 
orbicular, 2 lin. long, deeply concave, entire ; lower lip 34 lin. long ; 
median lobe suborbicular, 1? lin. across ; lateral lobes semi-ovate, 
3 lin. long, nearly ? lin. broad. 
Eastern Recron: Natal; Dumisa, Alexandra County, in shady thickets, at 
about 2000 ft., Rudatis, 405! 
Apparently nearest S. transvaalensis, Guerke, but it differs in being glandular- 
puberulous and in having a shorter calyx with shorter, broader teeth. 
14. 8. parilis (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 131); stem 
herbaceous, erect, slender, 10-15 in. high, simple or very sparingly 
branched, villous-pubescent ; leaves deltoid-ovate, 9-15 lin. long, 
6-11 lin. broad, obtuse or sometimes apiculate, openly cordate at 
the base, crenate-dentate or dentate, densely villous both sides ; 
petiole 2-6 lin. long; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; 
whorls 2-flowered, few, distant; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; calyx 
campanulate, 4 lin. long, villous ; tube 2 lin. long; teeth linear- 
triangular, 2 lin. long, acuminate-spinescent ; corolla white, pube- 
rulous ; tube about 4 lin. long, rather narrow, slightly enlarged at 
