Lamium.} Cli, LABIATA (BAKER). 469 
usually cordate, crenate or inciso-crenate. Whorls axillary or capi- 
tate. 
Species 40, concentrated in the North Temperate zone of the Old World. 
1, L. amplexicaule, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii, 508. An 
annual, much branched at the crown of the root, with erect stems about 
3 ft. long. Leaves in distant pairs ; lower long petioled, cordate-ovate, 
small, deeply crenate; floral leaves sessile, amplexicaul. Flowers con- 
fined to the axils of the upper sessile leaves, sometimes small and 
cleistogamous, Calyx densely hairy, nearly } in. long; teeth lanceolate- 
subulate, rather longer than the tube. Corolla red, 4 in. long; tube 
sender, much longer than the calyx.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, in cultivated fields, 8000- 
9000 ft., Schimper, 1153, aud without precise locality, Schimper, 292! Roth! 
Also in Europe, West Asia, North Africa, and Canary Islands. 
34. LASIOCORYS, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ti. 1213. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 10-nerved; teeth 5, equal, or the lower 
longer. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx, furnished with a ring 
of hairs inside; limb bilabiate; upper lip entire, deeply concave ; lower 
3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate; anthers with 2 divaricate 
cells. Disk produced on the lower side. Style bifid; upper fork shorter 
or abortive. Nucules ovoid-triquetrous, obtuse.—Undershrubs or herbs. 
Leaves sessile or petioled, varying from ovate to linear, crenate or entire. 
Whorls axillary, many-flowered; bracts smal] or large. Habit of 
Leucas, from which it differs by its 5-toothed calyx. 
Species 9, the others in Arabia, Socotra, and South Africa. Briquet, Giirke, and 
Hiern place Lasiocorys as a section of Leueas, from which it differs by the teeth of 
the calyx being not more than five. 
Calyx-teeth subulate from a broad base 
Calyx-teeth lanceolate 
Calyx-teeth deltoid. 
Throat of calyx-tube not oblique. 
Leaves oblanceolate . 
Leaves ovate. . . 
Throat of calyx-tube oblique. 
Leaves oblanceolate 
Leaves ovate 
1. L. Henii. 
2. L. poggeana, 
3. L. abyssinica, 
4, L, stachydiformis. 
5. L. argyrophylla, 
6. L. arabica, 
1. L. Benii, Baker. Annual. Stems erect, pubescent, 2-5 ft. 
long, slightly branched. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 
obtuse, cuneate at the base, crenate, pubescent. Flowers in globose 
axillary or terminal whorls, subsessile ; bracts subulate, strongly ciliate, 
$-} in, long. Calyx } in. long, pubescent ; tube oblong-campanulate ; 
