Stachys.] LABIATA (Skan). 357 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 75! Griqualand East; around 
Clydesdale, near the Umzimvubu River, 2500 ft., Tyson in MacOwan & Bolus, 
Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1298 ! 
Tyson, 2561, is evidently different, and is described in this work as a new 
species, S. Z'ysonii. 
32. 8. Tysonii (Skan) ; a perennial herb; stem erect, about 10 
in, high, scarcely } lin. thick near the base, very sparingly branched, 
rather densely covered with very slender soft spreading long hairs ; 
branches very slender, hairy as the stem; leaves all distinctly 
petiolate, thin, ovate-lanceolate, the larger 14-17 lin. long and 5-7 
lin. broad, subacute or obtuse, distinctly narrowed to the apex, 
broadly cordate or subcordate at the base, regularly crenate- 
serrate, covered with very slender soft hairs above and on the 
principal nerves beneath ; petiole 14—4 lin. long, hairy as the stem ; 
lower bracts similar to the leaves ; upper lanceolate, slightly longer 
than the calyx; whorls 4—6-flowered, numerous, rather close 
together in a terminal tapering spike ; calyx campanulate, 3-3} lin. 
long, shortly and softly glandular-pubescent ; teeth deltoid, subulate- 
spinescent at the apex, 14-14 lin. long; corolla-tube 3-4 lin. long, 
annular-pilose inside; upper lip obovate-oblong, 3-3} lin. long, 
slightly emarginate or entire; lower lip 34-5 lin. long. S. obtusi- 
folia, MacOwan in Kew Bulletin, 1893, 13 partly. 
Eastern Recon: Griqualand East ; mountain slopes near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 2561! . 
33. S. erectiuscula (Guerke in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 315); stem 
herbaceous, erect or almost erect, up to 2 ft. high, very sparingly 
branched, shortly pilose; internodes $-3} in. long; leaves ovate- 
lanceolate or deltoid-lanceolate, the larger }-2 in. long and 5-7 lin. 
broad, obtuse or sometimes apiculate, slightly cordate at the base, 
crenate, sparingly pilose on both sides; petiole 1}—6 lin. long ; 
lower bracts similar to the leaves, but narrower and sessile, the 
upper much reduced ; whorls 2-10-flowered, many, distinct ; pedicels 
4-1 lin. long ; calyx campanulate, 3-34 lin. long, sparingly covered 
with short stiff adpressed hairs ; teeth linear-triangular, 1}-1} lin. 
long, somewhat spinescent ; corolla glandular-pubescent outside ; tube 
24-4 lin. long; upper lip nearly erect, obovate-oblong, 3-3} lin. 
long, slightly emarginate or entire ; lower lip 34—5 lin. long ; median 
lobe obovate-suborbicular, 13-2} lin. long and broad ; lateral lobes 
ovate, 1-1} lin. long, rounded. 
Var. §, natalensis (Skan) ; blackish when dry, more hispidly hairy or scabrous ; 
stem up to 16 in. high; leaves somewhat smaller (usually 12-15 lin. long and 
8-4 lin. broad), truncate or rounded (not cordate) at the base ; whorls 2-6-flowered, 
usually less distant. 
KanaHart Recion: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1116 ! Machadadorp, 
Lydenburg District, Burtt-Davy, 7660! 7661! Aapies River, near Pretoria, Miss 
Leendertz, 979! 
- Eastern Reaton: Var. 8: Natal ; near Newcastle, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 6349 ! 
6795 ! 
