Stachys. | LABIAT (Skan). 351 
19. S. attenuata (Skan) ; a herb everywhere covered with long 
slender soft hairs ; stem procumbent, elongated, extremely slender 
as well as the numerous very long ascending branches ; internodes 
up to 21 in. long ; leaves ovate-deltoid, 4-8 lin. long, 3-6 lin. broad, 
obtuse, usually slightly and broadly cordate at the base, rather 
irregularly crenate-serrate ; teeth large, 3 or 4 on each side, rarely 
more, rounded ; petiole very slender, 2-7 lin. long ; bracts shortly 
petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, toothed or entire, 
often very small; whorls 2-flowered, few, very distant ; calyx 
campanulate, 23-3 lin. long ; teeth linear- or lanceolate-triangular, 
14-13 lin, long, setaceous at the tips; corolla-tube straight and 
cylindric below, curved and enlarged at the throat, 2-3} lin. long ; 
upper lip ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-2} lin. long, recurved ; lower 
lip about 4 lin. long; median lobe about 2} lin. long and 2 lin. 
broad, emarginate. S. serrulata, Benth, in E. Meyer, Comm. 240, 
and in DO. Prodr. xii. 477 partly, not of Burch. 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div. ; near Bains Kloof, 1000 ft., Bolus, 2896! 
Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 75b! 
20. 8. fruticetorum (Brig. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2° sér. iii. 1083) ; 
a branched herb about 8 in. high ; branches divergent-ascending, 
rather flaccid, retrorsely pilose ; leaves cordate-ovate, up to 1} in. 
long, 3 in. broad, obtuse-rounded, regularly and rather coarsely 
crenate-dentate, thin, sparingly pilose ; auricles distant; petiole 
up to 74 lin. long; inflorescence 14-2 in. long; bracts ovate- 
elliptic, more or less petiolate, as long as the calyx; whorls 
2-6-flowered ; pedicels }—1 lin. long; calyx narrowly obconical at 
the base, then abruptly and broadly funnel-shaped-campanulate, 
3 lin. long, shortly pilose; tube 2 lin. long; teeth broadly 
triangular-lanceolate, equal, about 1} lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad 
at the base, shortly subspinescent-acuminate ; corolla pilose outside ;. 
tube rather broad, 24-3 lin. long; upper lip oblong, 23 lin. long,. 
emarginate ; lower lip 3} lin. long; median lobe obcordate ; lateral 
lobes obliquely rounded, smaller. 
, Sour Arrica: without locality, Wright, 496! 503 partly (in Dublin Herb.) ! 
rior | 
Coast Rraion: Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Prior! Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys. 
Pass, Schlechter, 1179 ! 
21. S. leptoclada (Brig. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2° sér. iii, 1084); 
a herb about 1 ft. high; stem rather stout at the base, spreading- 
pilose; flowering branches slender, elongate-incurved, almost. 
glabrous, shining green ; leaves ovate-triangular, up to 1 in. long 
and 10 lin. broad, obtuse, cordate at the base, strongly and 
regularly crenate, glabrescent ; auricles with a broad semicircular 
sinus; petiole up to 5 lin. long; inflorescence up to 6 in. long, 
dorsiventral, very slender, subscandent; bracts petiolate, from 
triangular to elliptic-lanceolate and subulate ; whorls usually 
2-flowered, distant; pedicels very short; calyx campanulate, or 
