354 LABIAT& (Skan). [Stachys. 
about 1} lin. long, spinescent-acuminate ; corolla-tube 23 lin. long, 
annular-pilose inside ; upper lip 24-2? lin. long ; lower lip about 
34 lin. long and 4 lin. broad. 
Coast Recion: Port Elizabeth Div. ; Algoa Bay, Prior! 
26. 8. sublobata (Skan) ; a small rather slender perennial herb, 
prostrate at the base, then ascending, up to 9 in. high; branches 
somewhat densely covered with retrorse or spreading hispid usually 
long hairs; internodes 5-12 lin. long; leaves narrowly deltoid, 
4-6 lin. long, 2-4 lin. broad at the base, subacute or obtuse, openly 
cordate at the base, subentire towards the apex, crenate-serrate 
or shortly lobed in the lower part, thick, somewhat hispid ; teeth 
or lobes usually 4 or 5 each side, rather irregular, up to about 
2 lin. long, the lowermost longest and usually unequally bilobed 
and more or less retrorse, rounded or obtuse ; petiole 1—4 lin. long ; 
lower bracts similar to the leaves ; upper narrow and shorter than 
the calyx ; whorls 2-flowered, few, distant ; pedicels about } lin. 
long ; calyx campanulate, 24-3 lin. long, thinly covered with rather 
long stiff somewhat adpressed hairs and sessile glands; teeth 
lanceolate-triangular, 1-1} lin. long, acuminate, spinescent ; corolla 
mauve or lilac, pubescent ; tube subcylindric, 34-4 lin. long ; upper 
lip erect, elliptic or suborbicular, 13-2} lin. long ; lower lip 3-4 
lin. long ; median lobe semi-orbicular, 14—2 lin. long, 2—3 lin. broad, 
crenate ; lateral lobes ovate, about 1 lin. long. 
Coast Raion: Swellendam Div. ; Barrydale, 1200 ft., @alpin, 4425 ! Oudtshoorn 
Div. ; in thickets near the great Cango cave, about 2100 ft., Bolus, 12244! 
This is closely allied to S. subsessilis, Benth., but it seems to differ in habit, being 
more freely branched, the bianches are much more hairy, and the leaves are thinner 
and often more deeply toothed or almost lobed. 
27. S. arvensis (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 814); a hispidly pubescent 
annual herb ; stem decumbent at the base, then ascending or erect, 
sometimes altogether erect, slender, branched usually from the 
base, a few inches up to 2 ft. long ; leaves ovate or ovate-rounded, 
3-14 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, obtuse, cordate or rounded at the 
base, crenate or crenate-serrate, more or less hispidly pubescent ; 
petiole up to 14 lin. long, usually 2—6 lin. long ; bracts similar to 
the leaves, the upper narrower, subsessile; whorls 4-6-flowered, 
several, distant ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 3-4 lin. long, slightly 
oblique, often detlexed, hispidly pubescent ; teeth lanceolate, 1-1} 
lin. long, acuminate, subspinescent; corolla scarcely longer than 
the calyx, pale purplish-rose and white. Benth. Lab. 550, and in 
DC. Prodr. xii. 477 ; Burm. f. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 16 ; Bolus & Wolley- 
Dod in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 310; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
747; Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 73; Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. i. 197 ; Curt. 
Fl. Lond. ii. t. 41; Engl. Bot. ed. i. t. 1154; Fl. Dan. t. 587; 
Reichb. Ic. Bot. seu Pl. Orit. x. 24, t. 967. 
Coast Raion: Cape Div. ; near Cape Town, Bolus, 4799! near Mosterts Farm, 
Mowbray, Wolley-Dod, 1743! and without precise locality, Harvey! Introduced. 
