470 Cll, LABIATA (BAKER). | Lasiocorys. 
teeth subulate from a broad base. Corolla white, 4 in. long; tube 
twice as long as the lips— Leucas Henii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 878. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Mossamedes, in gravelly thickets on the banks of 
the river Bero, Welwitsch, 5846, Damaraland, Een, 
2. L. poggeana, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 193. Stem branched, 
pubescent only on the angles. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, 13-2 in. 
long, acute, narrowed to the base, serrate, green and glabrescent on both 
surfaces. Whorls axillary, formed of two shortly peduncled globose 
cymes. Calyx subsessile, nearly } in. long when mature ; tube long, 
glabrescent and strongly ribbed towards the base, inflated and villous 
above the middle; teeth 5, subequal, lanceolate-cuspidate, very small. 
Corolla and stamens unknown. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; Lulua River, Pogge, 1122. 
3. L. abyssinica, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 534. An undershrub, 
with slender pale woody branches, clothed with short pubescence. 
Leaves very numerous, sessile or shortly petioled, oblanceolate or rarely 
obovate, entire or obscurely toothed in the upper half, firm, subglabrous. 
Whorls very numerous, few-flowered; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, 
} in. long; throat equal; teeth large, deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla half 
as long again as the calyx; upper lip 4 in. long, finely hairy.—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 201; Vatke in Linnea. xliii. 98; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 122 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr, 371. Leucas quingue- 
dentata, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64 (name only). J. abyssinica, 
Briquet ex Girke in Eng). Jahrb. xxii. 136. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: near the coast in the Shohos district, Karenberg ; Habab ; 
Nakfa, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 482; Bogos; Keren, Steudner, 1399! Abyssinia: 
Province of Wojerat, Petit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 502! 1851 ! 
British Somaliland: Serrut Mountains, near Maid, 5800 ft., Hildebrandt, 1422. 
4, L. stachydiformis, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 534. A branched 
undershrub, with branchlets densely clothed with short whitish spread- 
ing hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, ovate, crenate, the lower 14-2 in. 
long, pale and densely pubescent beneath, greenish and less pubescent 
above. Whorls distant, many-flowered; bracts large, linear, densely 
hairy. Calyx-tube strongly ribbed, densely hairy, 4 in. long ; throat 
equal ; teeth deltoid, with very large spinous points. Upper corolla-lip 
4 in, long, all densely clothed with white hairs.—A. Rich. Tent. Fi). 
Abyss. li. 202; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 123; Engl. Hochgebirgsf. 
Trop. Afr. 370; Avetta in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 60. Leucas 
stachydiformis, Briguet ex Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 136. Ballota 
stachydiformis, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 202. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Gajeh-Merki, 8400 ft., Schimper, 583 , Lotho, Schimpe’; 
448; Debra Eski, Schimper, 146; Ataba, Steudner, 1411+. on mountains near 
Jenausa, Schimper, 852! Province of Wojerat, Petit! Shoa . Cora, Ragazzt ; and 
without precise locality, Schimper, 936! : 
