362 LABIAT& (Skan). [Stachys. 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Ecklon ! 
WESTERN Recion: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily 
Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 3097! Spektakel Mountain, Morris in Herb. 
Bolus, 5779! 
42. 8. gariepina (Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 493); an undershrub, 
everywhere densely yellow-tomentose ; leaves oblong, obtuse, rounded 
at the base, subdentate, thick, densely tomentose on both sides ; 
whorls about 6-flowered; calyx campanulate; teeth lanceolate- 
linear, not spinescent. 
WesTERN Recron: Little Namaqualand ; at the mouth of the Orange River, 
Ecklon, ex Bentham. 
43. 8. dregeana (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 240); an erect 
undershrub, 6-16 in. high, densely floccose-tomentose on stem, 
branches and leaves; stem simple or branched, rather densely 
leafy ; leaves sessile, oblong-linear or somewhat spathulate, 3-1} in. 
long, 14-2} lin. broad, obtuse or rounded, somewhat narrowed or 
broad at the base, more or less erenate or sometimes entire, rather 
thick ; bracts similar to the leaves, gradually smaller; whorls 
many, 2—4-flowered, distant or the upper approximate, in a spike 
2-8 in. long ; pedicels }—? lin. long; calyx campanulate, 3-44 lin. 
long, densely tomentose; teeth lanceolate-triangular or broadly 
lanceolate, 14-14 lin. long, acuminate; corolla pink or purple, 
densely tomentose outside; tube 2-3 lin. long ; upper lip 14-2 lin. 
long ; lower lip 23-34 lin. long. DOC. Prodr. xii. 494. 
Var. 8, lasiocalyx (Skan); much less tomentose on stem, branches and leaves ; 
leaves oblanceolate, up to 74 lin. broad, distinctly narrowed to the base ; calyx with 
a more woolly indumentum, S. lasiocalyx, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 317. 
Var. , tenuior (Skan); similar to var. 8, but the plant is more slender, and 
the stem, branches and especially the leaves are still less tomentose ; leaves 
thinner, oblanceolate to lanceolate, up to 5 lin. broad, drying yellowish, usually 
only very sparingly covered and mostly on the underside with a stellate tomentum ; 
calyx less tomentose than in the type. 
Coast Recion: Var. y: Queenstown Div. ; summit of Andriesberg, 6600- 
6800 ft., Galpin, 2031! 
Centra Recion: Tarka Div. ; Wildchuts Berg, 5000-6000 ft., Drége, 79496 ! 
Cradock Div.; on hills, Mrs. Barber, 236! Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, 
7000-8000 ft., Drége, 7949c. Albert Div., Cooper, 643 partly! near Gaatje, 
5000 ft., Drége, 7949a! Var. y: Barkly East Div. ; Ben McDhui, Witte Bergen, 
9200 ft., Galpin, 6817! 
Karanari Reaion: Var. 8: Orange River Colony ; slopes of Mont aux 
Sources, 8500 ft., Thode, 461 e y; grassy slopes 
44. §. spathulata (Burch. ex Benth. Lab. 559); a dwarf branched 
undershrub, erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent at the base, 
everywhere densely grey-velvety-tomentose or sometimes glabrescent 
at the base of the older branches; branches leafy; leaves sessile or 
the lower shortly petiolate, spathulate or linear-spathulate, }-1} in. 
long, 1-4 lin. broad near the apex, rounded, entire ; bracts lanceo- 
late to ovate, longer to shorter than the calyx; whorls 2-flowered, 
