352 LABIATA (Skan). [ Stachys. 
funnel-shaped-campanulate, 24-3 lin. long, 4 lin. long when mature, 
very shortly pilose ; tube 14-24 lin. long ; teeth lanceolate, equal, 
1} lin. long, ciliolate, subspinescent-acuminate; corolla sparingly 
pilose outside, about 24 lin. longer than the calyx ; tube cylindric, 
exserted ; upper lip ovate, 1 lin. long, emarginate ; lower lip 
14-2 lin. long; median lobe obovate; lateral lobes obliquely 
rounded, smaller. 
Eastern Recron: Natal; near Bluekranz River, 3700 ft., Schlechter, 6865 ! 
22. 8. flexuosa (Skan); a small weak decumbent branched 
perennial herb; branches up to 9 in. long, }—} lin. in diam., 
somewhat wiry at the base, flexuose, sparingly white-pilose and 
glandular-pulverulent ; hairs rather long, slightly retrorse ; leaves 
ovate, 4-9 lin. long, 3-7 lin. broad, rounded to subcordate 
at the base, sometimes shortly tapering to the petiole, crenate, 
sparingly white-pilose above and on the nerves beneath; teeth 
broad, shallow, 5-9 each side ; petiole 1-2} lin. long; bracts ovate 
to oblong, longer to shorter than the calyx; whorls 2-flowered, 
several, distinct or distant; flowers mostly turned to one side; 
pedicels scarcely $ lin. long; calyx campanulate, 3? lin. long, 
somewhat hispid with rather long white hairs, glandular-puberulous, 
often purplish, prominently 10-nerved ; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 
1? lin. long, spinescent ; corolla reddish-purple, shortly pubescent 
outside ; tube about 3 lin. long, slightly enlarged upwards ; upper 
lip suborbicular, about 2 lin. long; lower lip 44 lin. long ; median 
lobe semi-orbicular, 2} lin. loug, 3} lin. broad. 
Coast Recion: Stockenstrom Div.; mountain side at Old Katberg Pass, 
5200 ft., Galpin, 20938 ! 
23. 8. cymbalaria (Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2™* sér, iii. 1088) ; 
a small perennial herb; stems several, weak, wiry, creeping, 2-6 
in. long, sparingly clothed with long slender spreading hairs ; 
leaves suborbicular-cordate or broadly ovate-cordate, 24—5 lin. long, 
13-4 lin. broad, obtuse, crenate, sparingly pilose; petiole 2}—4 lin. 
long; inflorescence up to 2} in. long; rhachis almost glabrous ; 
bracts sessile, elliptic or elliptic-subulate, shorter than the calyx; 
whorls 2-flowered, few, distant; pedicels scarcely } lin. long; 
calyx narrowly campanulate, 2} lin. long, puberulous or sub- 
glabrous; tube 14-1} lin. long; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 1-1} 
lin, long, spinescent-acuminate ; corolla pink ; tube nearly cylindric, 
curved, about 3 lin. long ; upper lip obovate-orbicular, 14 lin. long, 
entire, very slightly puberulous outside; lower lip 2} lin. long; 
median lobe obovate or suborbicular, 1} lin. long, 13 lin. broad ; 
lateral lobes obliquely rounded, smaller, 
Var, 8, alba (Skan); hairs on the branches, petioles and leaves much shorter ; 
petioles 1-2 (rarely up to 4) lin. long; calyx up to 34 lin. long; teeth up to 2 lin. 
long ; corolla white ; tube 1% lin. long; upper lip obovate-elliptic, 13 lin. long ; 
lower lip 34 lin. long; median lobe transversely oblong-obovate, 2} lin. long, 
24-3 lin. broad. 
