Stachys.] LABIATA (Skan), 367 
sessile ; calyx somewhat hispid, almost 2-lipped ; teeth spreading, 
ovate, acuminate, subpungent ; corolla-tube slender, pubescent, 
twice as long as the calyx ; upper lip rounded, entire, shorter than 
the lower ; lower lip 3-lobed ; median lobe slightly 4-lobed, twice as 
large as the lateral. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 496. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, Krebs, 
54. 8. hispidula (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 66) ; a dwarf branched 
undershrub ; branches slender; leaves shortly petiolate, cordate, 
obtusely crenate, hispid; whorls few, about 4-flowered ; calyx 
elongate-dentate ; teeth linear-lanceolate, as long as the tube, 
somewhat hispid. 
Coast Recion : Humansdorp Div, ; near the Kromme River, K7 rauss, 1125, 
55. 8. Kraussii (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 66); stems procumbent 
at the base, nearly glabrous or sparingly retrorsely hairy ; leaves 
petiolate, ovate or deltoid-lanceolate, $ in. long or somewhat longer, 
deeply cordate at the base, obtusely crenate, nearly glabrous ; 
whorls few, 2- or 3-flowered ; calyx glabrous; teeth acute ; corolla 
twice as long as the calyx ; upper lip puberulous, 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Krauss. 
Hochstetter suggested that the affinity of this appears to be with S. humifusa, 
Burch, 
56. 8. natalensis (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 65) ; stem ascending, 
9 in. high or more, hirsute ; leaves shortly petiolate, broadly ovate, 
$ in. long, obtuse, subcordate at the base, crenate-serrate, hirsute- 
pubescent ; bracts ovate, shorter than the calyx; calyx hirsute ; 
teeth subspinose ; corolla puberulous ; tube shorter than the calyx- 
teeth ; lips exceeding the calyx. 
Eastern Recon ; Natal ; summit of Table Mountain, Arauss, 1139. 
Bentham, in DC. Prodr. xii, 476, refers to this and the two preceding species 
under 8. #thiopica, from which, he says, Hochstetter’s characters did not enable 
him to distinguish them. 
57. §. nutans (Benth. Lab. 561) ; a pubescent undershrub ; leaves 
sessile, ovate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, crenate, rugose, villous 
above, white-woolly beneath ; whorls 2-6-flowered ; calyx pedicel- 
late, very densely white-wholly, reflexed in fruit; teeth lanceolate, 
obtuse, not spinescent ; corolla shortly exceeding the calyx, pubes- 
cent outside. DO. Prodr. xii. 492. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Dahl in Herb. Vahl. 
Bentham separates this from S. Lamarckii by its broader leaves, which are green 
above, with long rather villous hairs, not white-woolly, and especially by its 
nodding more deeply toothed calyx, 
