350 LABIATA (Skan). [ Stachys. 
long. S. ethiopica, Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 239 partly, and in 
DC. Prodr. xii. 476 partly, not of Linn. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Berg, Zeyher, 831! Port Elizabeth 
Div. ; Baakens Valley, Z'yson, 2240! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 
559 (in Dublin Herb.)! Williamson! Bolton ! 
CentraL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, 3000 ft., Bolus! upper part 
of the Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 3037 ! 3100! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei ; Gekau (Geua) River, Drége! 
Drage, 75k, collected between Bethelsdorp and Vanstadens River, Uitenhage 
Div., closely approaches this, but it does not dry so dark brown, and the hairs on 
the stems are not recurved but turned upwards. Corollas are wanting. 
MacOwan, 559, in Herb. Kew. is different from his 559 cited above and has been 
referred to S. xthiopica, var. glandulifera. 
17. 8. Harveyi (Skan) ; a small weak branched herb ; branches 
apparently prostrate or decumbent, up to 6 in. long, only }—} lin. 
in diam., shortly retrorsely pilose; leaves ovate, 4-10 (usually 
about 7) lin. long, 34-9 lin. broad, obtuse, rounded, subtruncate or 
sometimes slightly cuneate at the base, rather regularly crenate- 
serrate, thin, shortly pilose on both sides, slightly glandular-pube- 
rulous beneath; teeth moderately large, usually 6-9 each side ; 
petiole very slender, 3-7 lin. long ; bracts lanceolate, as long as or 
shorter than the calyx; flowers about 6, in a single lax whorl 
terminating the branches ; pedicels ? lin. long ; calyx very narrowly 
campanulate, 34 lin. long, covered with short slender spreading 
hairs and shorter gland-tipped hairs; teeth narrowly lanceolate- 
triangular, 13 lin. long, about } lin. broad at the base, somewhat 
spinescent ; corolla shortly pubescent outside, about 5} lin. long; 
tube 4 lin. long, narrowly cylindric up to near the apex where it is 
curved and slightly enlarged; upper lip reflexed, elliptic, 2} lin. 
long ; lower lip 24-3 lin. long; median lobe transversely elliptic, 
about 1 lin. long and 1} lin. broad. 
Coast Reaion : Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Harvey in Dublin Herb. ! 
18. §. serrulata (Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 549) ; an annual herb 
everywhere rather densely and softly pubescent ; stem decumbent, 
elongated, slender, loosely branched ; leaves broadly ovate, 4—10 lin. 
long, 4-8 lin. broad, somewhat acute, usually slightly and very 
broad!y cordate at the base, regularly crenulate-serrulate ; petiole 
2-5} (usually about 4) lin. long; lower bracts similar to the leaves, 
upper much reduced ; whorls 2-4-flowered, few, distant ; pedicels _ 
4-4 lin. long ; calyx tubular-campanulate, about 2} lin. long, softly 
pilose ; teeth linear-triangular, setaceous at the tips, 1} lin. long ; 
corolla-tube straight, nearly cylindric, 2} lin. long ; upper lip erect, 
obovate-oblong, 1} lin. long ; lower lip 2} lin. long. Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 477 partly; Guerke in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 46. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Krantzolei, Penther, 1748 (ex Guerke). 
Caledon Div. ; near Houwhoek, Penther, 1721 (ex Guerke). Knysna Div. ; near 
the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5155 | 
A specimen in the Kew Herbarium from Somerset, collected by Bowker, differs 
in having larger flowers, and the indumentum consists of somewhat stiffer hairs. 
