Stachys.| LABIATA (Skan). 353 
CENTRAL Recron; Cradock Div. ; on stony mountains, Cooper, 516! 2894! 
Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Wagenpads Berg, on the southern side, Burchell, 2829! 
Eastern Recion: Var. 8: Natal; Richmond, 3000 ft., Wood, 1846! 
Stachys xthiopica, var. tenella, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii, 262, we have 
not seen, but suspect from the very short description given and from the fact that 
the plant is from the Cradock Division that it is the same as S. cymbalaria, and 
that the form albiflora, O. Kuntze, is the same as S. cymbalaria, var. alba. 
24. §. subsessilis (Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 548); a perennial 
herb; stem decumbent, slender, branched or sometimes almost 
simple, up to 15 in. long or more, sparingly clothed with somewhat 
stiff hairs or almost glabrous; leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, 2-4 (rarely up to 9) lin. long, 13-3 (rarely 
up to 6) lin. broad, obtuse, usually more or less cordate at the 
base, crenate or sometimes subentire, somewhat leathery, sparingly 
strigose or sometimes nearly glabrous ; petiole }—-1} (rarely up to 4) 
lin. long ; bracts broadly lanceolate, shorter than the calyx; whorls 
2-flowered, usually close together at. the ends of the branches ; 
pedicels about 4 lin. long; calyx campanulate, 2? lin. long, hispidly 
pubescent ; tube 1} lin. long; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 14 lin. 
long, spinescent-acuminate ; corolla rose, about 54 lin. long, 
puberulous outside ; tube rather broad, curved, 3 lin. long ; upper 
lip erect, elliptic, 2 lin. long, entire ; lower lip about 3} lin. long. 
Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 240, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 47 6. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coasr Recon: Uitenhage Div., Zeyher! Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Eliza- 
beth, Burchell, 4326! Bolus, 2482! 9139! Drége, 2302a! Tyson, 2177 | Galpin, 
6365! Port Elizabeth and near the Boschmans River, Zeyher, 746! Algoa Bay, 
Forbes! Bathurst Div. ? Glenfilling, 1000 ft., Drége, 2302b, Albany Div. ; Elands 
Kloof, near Grahamstown, about 2000 ft., Galpin, 384! King Williamstown Div. ; 
Kachu (Yellowwood) River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 2302c ! 
There are 8 sheets of specimens in Thunberg’s herbarium named S, athiopica 
and numbered 1, 2 and 3, Sheet 1 is here referred to S. subsessilis, 
25. §. Priori (Skan); a perennial herb; stem and branches 
apparently decumbent, very slender, much elongated, rather thinly 
~ covered with very slender long white hairs which are often callous 
at the base; internodes often 3-1 in. long, sometimes up to 24 in. 
long; leaves all distinctly petiolate, deltoid-ovate, the larger 8-10 
lin. long and 5-6 lin. broad, obtuse, openly cordate at the base, 
regularly crenate, often rather thin, minutely punctate, slightly 
callous on the margin, somewhat thinly covered above and on the 
principal nerves beneath with very slender long white hairs which 
are often callous at the base ; petiole 1-34 lin. long, hairy like the 
branches ; bracts narrowly ovate, the lower slightly longer, the 
upper slightly shorter than the calyx, narrowed into a short broad 
petiole ; whorls 2 or 3, near together at the ends of the branches, 
4- or 5-flowered; calyx campanulate, about 3 lin. long, thinly 
covered chiefly on the nerves and on the margins of the teeth with 
rather long slender but stiff hairs; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 
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