358 | LABIATA (Skan). [Stachys. 
34. §. humifusa (Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 547) ; stem herbaceous, 
procumbent, up to 1} ft. long, about 1} lin. in diam. in the thickest 
part, rather succulent, glabrous, very, slightly scabrous, shining, 
acutely 4-angled; leaves subsessile or sessile, deltoid-lanceolate, 
usually 9-18 lin. long, 3-6 lin. broad, much narrowed to the apex, 
cordate at the base, crenate, slightly revolute, glabrous or nearly so ; 
bracts similar to the leaves but much reduced ; whorls 4—6-flowered, 
several, distant, in a spike 14-2} in. long; flowers nearly sessile ; 
calyx campanulate, about 3 lin. long, very shortly and stiffly hairy 
or almost glabrous ; teeth subulate, 14 lin. long, spinescent ; corolla 
white ; tube 2} lin. long, enlarged upwards, slightly curved ; upper 
lip suborbicular, concave, 1? lin. in diam. ; lower lip about 3 lin. 
long. Benth. in DO. Prodr. xii. 476. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Herb. Prior, 3650 ! 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3794! Albany 
Div., Bowker! 
35. 8. rivularis (Wood & Evans in Journ. Bot. 1897, 489); a 
perennial herb ; stems 2 to many, arising from a strong rootstock, 
erect, rather slender, 6-12 in. high or more, leafy, somewhat hispidly 
retrorsely pilose ; lower leaves shortly petiolate, the upper subsessile 
or sessile and smaller, almost erect, deltoid-lanceolate, 5-10 lin. 
long, 2-4 lin. broad, gradually narrowed to the apex, obtuse or 
scarcely acute, cordate at the base, crenulate, shortly hispidly 
pubescent above and chiefly on the nerves beneath, sli ghtly scabrous 
above ; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller ; whorls 2~6-flowered, 
several, distant, in a slender spike up to about 3 in. long ; calyx 
campanulate, 5-nerved, 24-2) lin. long, sparingly hispid-pubescent 
chiefly on the nerves ;_ teeth linear-triangular or deltoid at the base 
and subulate above, spinescent, about 1 lin. long ; corolla white with 
pink spots on the lower lip ; tube 2} lin. long; upper lip obovate- 
elliptic, 14-1} lin. long; lower lip 3 lin. long. Wood, Rep. 
Colonial Herb. Natal, 1897, 14. S. Schlechteri, Guerke in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxvi. 74. 
EasterN Recion: Tembuland; Tabase, near Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 327! 
Natal ; near the Mooi River, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 4022! 6252! Schlechter, 6837 ! 
Probably only a hairy variety of S. humifusa, Burch. 
36. 8. tenella (Skan); a small perennial herb branched chiefly 
from the base; stems several, very slender, erect, a few inches up 
to 1 ft. high, the thickest up to 4 lin. in diam., very sparingly 
sprinkled with short stiff hairs or mostly quite glabrous ; lower 
internodes scarcely longer than the leaves, the upper 2-4 times as 
long; leaves subsessile, ovate or sometimes ovate-lanceolate, 34-6 
lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, obtuse to rounded, usually more or less 
cordate at the base, crenulate or almost entire, glabrous or with a 
few hairs on the nerves beneath ; bracts similar to the upper leaves 
but smaller ; whorls few, 46-flowered, distant, in a spike about 
3 in. long ; calyx campanulate, about 24 lin. long, slightly glandular- 
