Stachys. | LABIAT (Skan), 355 
A native of Europe, Temperate Asia, North Africa and some of the Atlantic 
Islands. Introduced into Australia, New Zealand, Tropical America, and the 
West Indies. 
28. 8. nigricans (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 238); a herb 
usually more or less black when dried ; stem erect, 1-3 ft. high, 
simple or sparingly branched in the upper part, 1-1} lin. in diam. 
near the base, hispidly pubescent or subglabrescent at the base, 
often scabrous ; leaves sessile or subsessile, erect, narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, sometimes linear, usually 14-2} in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, 
scarcely acute, rounded at the base, crenate or serrate, sometimes 
almost entire, callous along the margin, strigose, scabrous; 
inflorescence up to 10 in. long; bracts lanceolate, longer or in 
the upper part shorter than the calyx ; whorls usually 6-flowered ; 
pedicels } lin. long ; calyx campanulate, about 3 lin. long, hispidly 
pubescent ; teeth lanceolate, hispidly ciliate, 14-14 lin. long; 
corolla white, pubescent ; tube 2? lin. long ; upper lip suborbicular, 
deeply concave, 1? lin. long; lower lip 34 lin. long. DC. Prodr. 
xii. 471; Wood, Natal Pl. iii. t. 271. 
Katanart Recon: Transvaal; Umlomati Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., 
Galpin, 1129! Berg Plateau, Mudd! Swaziland; near Mbabane, 4600 ft., Bolus, 
12245! Burtt-Davy, 2819 ! 
EasterN ReGion: Pondoland; between the Umtata River and St. Johns 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 4729a! Griqualand East; around Clydesdale, 
3000 ft., Tyson, 2132! and in MacOwan & Bolus in Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1299! Natal ; 
Umvoti River, Gerrard, 1224! Durban, Sanderson, 143! 235! Gueinzius! between 
the Umzimkulu River and the Umkomanzi River, Drége, 47296 ; near Newcastle, 
Wilms, 2194! Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 5! Zululand, McKenzie! 
29. §. sessilis (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 74) ; stems herba- 
ceous, erect, simple, 12-16 in. high, hispid-villous ; leaves sessile or 
subsessile, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, }-2 in. long, 3—6 lin. broad, 
obtuse or sometimes subacute, rounded at the base, regularly 
crenate or crenate-serrate, everywhere more or less adpressed-pilose ; 
inflorescence 3-6 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, the lower much longer, 
the upper shorter than the calyx; whorls many, 6—8-flowered, 
distant or approximate; pedicels about 1} lin. long; calyx 
campanulate, 24-3 lin. long, rather densely villous ; teeth deltoid- 
lanceolate, ‘td lin. long, acuminate; corolla white, very thin, 
sparingly pubescent outside; tube 2? lin. long; upper lip sub- 
orbicular, 14-1} lin. long, emarginate or entire; lower lip 3}—4 
lin. long; median lobe broadly obovate, 14-2 lin. long, 2-3 lin. 
broad ; lateral lobes short, broad. Brig. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2” ser. iii. 1082; 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1905, 173. 8S. pseudo- 
nigricans, Guerke in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 46, not of 
Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 315. 
KALAHARI Recion: Basutoland, Cooper, 943! Transvaal; Carolina District, 
one mile north of Robinson’s, Burtt-Davy, 2974! 
EasTERN Recion: Griqualand East ; near Newmarket, Arook, 1724! Natal ; 
Inchanga, 2000 ft. Wood, 4806 ! Bee 
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