perennial, glabrous; stem erect, simple, angulate-striate, leafy; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, subacute, remotely serrulated, with revolute margins; upper ones much smaller, subappressed; flowers subspicate; pedicels shorter than the lanceolate bracteæ, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, serrate, erect, longer than the tube, 4 times shorter than the corolla; anthers glabrous.HAB.Grassy hills near Morley, Drege; Transkey, Mrs. F. W. Barker. (Herb. D., Sd.) Stem 1 1/2–2 feet high. Leaves 2–3 inches long, about two lines wide, uninerved, the upper 8–4 lines long, 1/2 line wide. Spike 4–6 inches, sometimes branched at the base, many-flowered, pedicels 1/2–1 line long. Flowers 1/2-inch, incurved. Corolla bilabiate, petals free. Filaments hairy at apex. Ovary half superior. Stigma obtuse.