Leucas. | CII. LABIATE (BAKER). 477 
9. Li. microscypha, Baker. A much-branched erect annual under 
1 ft. high, with nearly glabrous stems. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 
under 1 in. long, inciso-crenate in the upper half, moderately firm, green 
and nearly glabrous on both surfaces. Whorls many-flowered, forming 
dense leafless terminal spicate panicles 3-1} in. long ; bracts large, rigid, 
linear-subulate. Calyx pubescent, 4 in. long ; tube campanulate ; throat, 
not at all oblique ; teeth subulate, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla 
small. Stamens included. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : North Nyasaland, Whyte ! 
10. L. masaiensis, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 403. A pe- 
rennial herb, with short slender ascending thinly hairy stems. Leaves 
shortly petioled, small, obovate-cuneate, pubescent, crenate except at the 
base. Whorls solitary, terminal, many-flowered ; bracts large, linear, 
densely rigidly ciliate. Calyx hairy, i in. long; throat equal; teeth 
minute, deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla half as long again as the calyx; 
upper lip densely hairy.—Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 74, t. 1495. 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Lykipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson ! 
11. L. venulosa, Baker. A perennial herb, with slender shortly 
densely pilose branches. Leaves shortly petioled, thick, obovate- 
cuneate, $~$ in. long, crenate in the upper half, greenish and thinly 
Pilose above, densely pilose with raised veins beneath. Whorls few, 
Many-flowered, remote, axillary; bracts large, subulate, hairy. Calyx 
airy, narrowly funnel-shaped, } in. long; throat not oblique; teeth 
minute, deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba, 5000-6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6463 ! 
12. L. Elliotii, Baker. An annual, with slender erect branched 
finely pilose stems under 1 ft. long. Leaves subsessile, obovate or the 
Upper oblanceolate, }—? in. long, obtuse, crenate, pilose on both surfaces. 
Whorls few, distant, many-flowered, axillary ; bracts large, subulate, 
densely pilose. Calyx funnel-shaped, hairy, $ in. long; throat not 
oblique ; teeth small, deltoid, with a large cusp. Corolla twice as long 
as the calyx. oe 
Nile Land. British East Africa: amongst long grass at Gilgil River, 6000- 
7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6566 ! 
13. L. Pechuelii, Baker. A suffruticose perennial, with stems 
densely clothed with adpressed white hairs. Leaves shortly petio on 
oblong, entire or obscurely crenate towards the tip, 13 in, Jones ensely 
clothed with adpressed hairs on both sides. Whorls ae owere 
bracts subulate. Calyx densely clothed with white woolly airs ; 
teeth, 5 longer and subulate, and 5 intermediate 3-} 1] or jenet . 
Upper lip of corolla densely villous.—Lasvocorys Pechuelii, O. Kuntze 
in Jahrb, Konig], bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 271. sLoeseh 
Lower Guinea, German South-west Africa : Hereroland, Peuchel-Loesche, 
