Ajuga. | LABIATA (Skan). 387 
at the base, enlarged at the throat ; upper lip 7-1 lin. long, about 
2 lin. broad at the base, emarginate; lower lip 34-5 lin. long ; 
median lobe broadly obovate, 2?-3} lin. long and broad, deeply 
emarginate ; lateral lobes ovate-oblong, 14-1} lin. long. Benth. in 
E. Meyer, Comm. 243, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 597. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Thunberg! Ecklon ! 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000-3000 ft., Drege! 
Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 346! Bathurst Div. ; between Blue Krantz and Kaffir 
Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3700! Albany Div. ; Slaay Kraal, Burke ! Grahams- 
town and neighbourhood, MacOwan! Bolton! Fort Beaufort Div. ; Kat River, 
2000 ft., Dréye! Winter Berg, Mrs. Barber, 120 ! Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, 
Miss Sole, 375! Cathcart Div. ; Blesbok Flats, near Windvogel Mountain, 3000 ft., 
Dréye! Komgha Div. ; between Zandplaat and Komgha, Dréze ! British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 169! 334! 
CentraL Recion: Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker; Bosch Berg, 
3000-4000 ft., MacOwan, 436 ! 
Katanart Region: Orange River Colony; Wolve Kop, Burke! Bethlehem, 
Richardson! Harrismith, Sankey, 227! Witte Bergen, Mrs. Barber & Mrs. 
Bowker, 763! Basutoland; Drakensberg, 8000 ft., Mellersh! and without 
precise locality, Cooper, 2901! Transvaal ; Heidelberg and neighbourhood, Miss 
Leendertz, 1033! Burtt-Davy, 3125! near Lydenburg, 4400 ft., Burtt-Davy, 
7664! Vereeniging, 4700 ft., Burtt-Davy, 7029! and without precise locality, 
McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5781! : 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker! Tembuland ; Bazeia, 
2000 ft., Baur, 272! Griqualand East ; around Kokstad, 4800 ft., Tyson, 1102! 
and in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1519! Natal; Durban, Gerrard, 1218! 
Pietermaritzburg, 2000-3000 ft., Sutherland! Wilms, 2200 ! Inanda, Wood, 1436! 
Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 373! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 375 ! Swazi- 
land ; mountains above Embabane, 4500 ft., Burtt-Davy, 3336 ! 
Orper CVI. PLANTAGINEAS. 
(By Dr. T. Cooke.) 
Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. _Calya inferior, 2-partite ; 
sepals imbricate, persistent, the anticous free or connate, keeled on 
the back and with membranous margins. Corolla hypogynous, 
tubular, scarious, marcescent, 4-lobed ; tube ampulliform or cylindric ; 
lobes 4, imbricate in bud. Stamens usually 4, inserted on the 
corolla-tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers versatile, 2-celled, dehiscing 
by a long slit. Ovary superior, 1-4-celled ; ovules 1 to many in 
each cell ; style filiform, erect. Capsule 1—4-celled, submembranous, 
1- or many-seeded, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds attached to the 
placenta by the inner face; testa thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
cylindrie, transverse ; radicle inferior. 
Perennial or annual herbs with or without stems ; leaves in stemless plants 
rosulate, in plants with stems alternate or opposite ; petioles usually dilated at 
the base ; flowers usually spicate (rarely solitary), each subtended by a persistent 
bract. 
Disrris. Genera 3 ; species about 200, cosmopolitan, chiefly in temperate and 
subtemperate regions. ea ¢ 
