348 LABIAT (Skan). | Stachys. 
the apex ; upper lip suborbicular, 17-2 lin. long, suberect, concave, 
entire ; lower lip about 44 lin. long. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Tiger Cave Valley, on the Drakensberg Range, Evans, 
387 ! 
15. 8. ethiopica (Linn. Mant. i. 82); a perennial herb ; stems 
decumbent or ascending, up to 1} ft. long or more, branched ; 
branches slender, more or less hairy or rarely nearly quite glabrous ; 
internodes up to 3 in. long; leaves very variable in size and shape, 
ovate or deltoid-ovate, 4-12 lin. long, 3-11 lin. broad, usually 
6-9 lin. long and 5-8 lin. broad, obtuse, rounded or acute, usually 
more or less cordate at the base, regularly crenate or crenate- 
serrate, sparingly and shortly hispid chiefly on the nerves, some- 
times densely pubescent, rarely quite glabrous; petiole 1-9 lin. 
long ; lower bracts similar to the leaves ; the upper much reduced ; 
whorls few to several, 2—6-flowered, distant or approximate ; pedicels. 
4-1 lin. long ; calyx campanulate or narrowly campanulate, 2—4 lin. 
long, sparingly to densely hispid or pilose ; teeth linear-triangular to 
lanceolate-triangular or sometimes narrowly deltoid or ovate-lanceo- 
late, 1-24 lin. long, usually setaceous or slightly spinescent at the 
tips ; corolla sparingly pubescent outside, white, purplish or reddish- 
white ; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 34-44 lin. long; upper lip 
elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 14-34 lin. long, emarginate or entire ; 
lower lip 3-4 lin. long; median lobe broadly obovate, transversely 
oblong or sometimes suborbicular, 1}-3 lin, long, 24—4 lin. broad ; 
lateral lobes ovate, 1-2 lin. long. Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16 ; 
Thunb. Prodr. 96, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 447; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 
102; Benth. Lab. 548, in EH. Meyer, Comm. 239 (including var. 
grandiflora, Burch.), and in DC. Prodr. xii, 476 partly ; Baker in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 467; Guerke in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 
Wien, xx. 46; Jacg. Obs. Bot. iv. 2, t. 77. S. pulchella, Salisb. 
Prodr. 83. Betonica capensis, Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16. 
Sideritis erecta, etc., Pluk. Almagest. Bot. 345, t. 315, f. 3. 
Prasium hirsutum, Poir. Encyel. v. 611. 
Var. §, hispidissima (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 239) ; branches and petioles 
densely covered with pallid slender but stiffish spreading hairs often about 1 lin. 
long ; leaves covered with similar hairs, especially on the nerves, but on the upper 
side they are somewhat adpressed. 
Var. y, parviflora (Skan); branches rather densely and somewhat hispidly 
hairy ; hairs rather short, directed forwards; leaves (at least the upper) more 
shortly petiolate ; petiole often only 1 lin. long or less ; corolla only 3-44 lin. long. 
S. xthiopica, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 476, partly, not of Linn, See Bolus & 
Wolley-Dod in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 310, in note under S. xthiopica. 
Var. 5, glandulifera (Skan) ; branches, leaves and especially the calyx, densely 
glandular-pulverulent or glandular-puberulous, together with few or many 
scattered slender eglandular hairs. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Forster! Forbes! Thom, 438! Harvey, 541! 
Cole, 63! Thunberg! Vay. y, Pappe. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Oliphants River, Penther, 1709 (ex Guerke). 
Piquetberg Div. ; near Piquetberg, Penther, 1744 (ex Guerke). Malmesbury 
Div. ; Hopefield, Penther, 1750 (ex Guerke). Cape Div. ; various localities, 
