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Has.—Draakensberg, Orange Free State, 7. Cooper! 1044. (Herb. T. C.D.) 
Descr.—Stems 1-2 inches high, thread-like, erect, most densely 
tufted, leafy throughout. Leaves opposite, decussating, linear-subulate, 
tapering to a slender, but bidentate point, one-nerved, glabrous. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, very minute, and nearly but 
not quite sessile, each subtended by a pair of small bracts in the middle 
of its little pedicel. Calyx cupshaped, shortly 4-lobed; the lobes del- 
toid, acute. Petals none? Stamens two, inserted in the calyx tube, 
rather above the middle, and opposite two of the lobes. F'i/aments very 
short, included; anthers two-celled, cells subdivergent. Ovary broader 
than long, 2-celled; style short; stigma subcapitate. Capsule bivalve, 
horny, longer than the calyx. Seeds ellipsoidal. Zmbryo with fleshy, 
elliptical cotyledons, and an ovate, short radicle. 
Though this is a minute, and will by many be thought a very insig- 
nificant plant, having flowers no bigger than the head of a pin, it is in- 
teresting to botanists as a species of a genus hitherto only known in the 
south of Europe. If it have petals, as the European species has, they 
have perished from our specimens: in the European plant they are ex- 
tremely small and fugacious. Our plant essentially differs in the form 
of leaves; in habit the European and African species agree, and both 
are found in wet spots, the former in rice-fields, 
Fig. 1, tuft; the natural size. Fig. 2, apex of a branch, in flower (above) and seed 
(below) ; 3, a leaf; 4, flower; 5, calyx, laid open; 6,a stamen; 7, ovary; 8, capsule, 
after debiscing; 9, seed; 10, embryo; all magnified. 
190. BOUCHEA LATIFOLIA, Harv. ( Verbenacea.) 
B. latifolia; pubescens, caule elato folioso, foliis imbricatis late 
obovatis acutis basi cuneatis sub-petiolatis integerrimis penninerviis 
punctatis utrinque molliter pubescentibus, spicis terminalibus densi- 
floris, bracteis lanceolatis acutis calyce breviori, calycis dentibus breviter 
subulatis, capsula calyce fructifero breviore. 
Haz.—Dry plains, Zululand, Gerr. § M‘Ken., 1247. (Herb. T.C. D.) 
Descr.— Stem 2-3 feet high, subsimple? or branched. All parts are 
closely, softly, and shortly pubescent. Leaves erect, imbricating, 2-23 
inches long, 14-2 inches wide, flat, thickish, broadly obovate, acute, 
cuneate at base, tapering into an imperfect petiole, penninerved, quite 
entire, gland-dotted. Spikes terminal, dense, many-flowered. Bractee 
shorter than the calyx, lanceolate-subulate. Calyx cylindrical, somewhat 
5-angled; its lobes shortly subulate. Corolla white ; its tube much 
exserted; lobes undulate. Fruiting calyx split down one side, gaping 
at base, and showing the enclosed, shorter capsule. : 
The copious and dense pubescence, broad, and perfectly entire 
leaves, and closely-flowered spike will serve to distinguish this from any 
South African species of Bouchea. Judging by the specimens seen, I 
