Lasiocorys. | CII. LABIATE (BAKER). 471 
» L. argyrophylla, Vatke in Oester. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 96. An 
undershrub, with simple branchlets 13-2 ft. long. Leaves subsessile, 
oblanceolate, subobtuse, entire or obscurely toothed towards the obtuse 
apex, 1} in. long, } in. broad, silky on both sides. Whorls many, 
2-10-flowered ; bracts small. Calyx funnel-shaped, } in. long; throat 
oblique, produced on the lower side ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla 
asin ZL. abyssinica.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 371. Leucas argy- 
rophylla, Briquet ex Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 135. L. hyssopifolia, 
Franch. Sert. Somal. 57. L. franchetiana, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxii. 135. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, at Yafir, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 852 ; 
Boobi, James & Thrupp ! and without precise locality, Révoil. 
6. Lk. arabica, Jaub. et Spach, Illust. Pl. Orient. iv. 126, t. 383. 
A tall branched perennial herb, with slender obscurely hairy stems. 
Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, deeply crenate, finely pubescent, 
1-2 in. long. Whorls many-flowered, in the axils of large leaves all 
down the stem ; bracts large, subulate. Calyx finely hairy, 4-4 in. 
long ; tube funnel-shaped ; throat oblique ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, $ 
the length of the tube. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; upper lip 
lingulate, as long as the tube, finely hairy outside. Stamens shorter 
than the lips.—Z. royleoides, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 98. Ballota roy- 
leoides, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 520. Leucas royleoides, Giirke in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxii. 136. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland : Ab] Mountains, 3400 ft., Hildebrandt, 1422, 
Also in Arabia, 
35. ACROTOME, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. ii. 
1206. 
Calyx accrescent, between tubular and campanulate, 10-ribbed ; 
throat oblique; teeth 5-10. Corolla-tube as long as or longer than the 
lip; limb bilabiate ; upper lip small, concave, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 
4, didynamous, included in the corolla-tube; lower pair longest ; 
anthers confluent, 1-celled. Disk equal. Style bearded below the 
apex, entire or emarginate. Nucules acutely triquetrous, truncate at 
the apex.—Perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire or serrate, 
those subtending the whorls like the others, Flowers small, whitish. 
Species 4, the others in South Africa. 
1. A. Belckii, Giirke in Bull. Herb, Boiss, vi. 949. Stent 
erect, branched, pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 in. long, su . 
acute, narrowed to a short petiole, deeply serrate, pubescent on both 
Surfaces. Whorls few-flowered; bracts subulate, $ in. long. Calyx 
pubescent, finally } in. long; teeth 8, deltoid, acuminate. . . 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland; Otyitambi, Beick, 
