478 CII. LABIATH (BAKER). [ Leucas. 
14. L. altissima, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 268. A perennial 
herb, 3-4 ft. high, with stems densely clothed with soft white hairs. 
Leaves small, sessile, oblong, subentire, densely hairy on both sides. 
Whorls very numerous, many-flowered, the upper approximate ; bracts 
minute. Calyx campanulate, } in. long, densely clothed with soft white 
spreading hairs; throat not oblique; teeth 10, deltoid, the alternate 
ones smaller. Corolla-lip small; upper densely villous.—Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 878. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 5484! Humpata, Johnston! 
Cunene River, Johnston! German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Otyimbingue, 
Marloth, 1410! 
15, L. inflata, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 524. A branched erect 
perennial herb, woody at the base, with stems densely clothed with short 
soft white hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, suborbicular, crenate at the apex, 
4-1 in. long, softly hairy on both sides. Whorls very numerous, 6-10- 
flowered, many of the upper approximate and with reduced leaves ; bracts 
minute. Calyx campanulate, inflated, } in. long, densely villous ; throat 
not oblique ; teeth deltoid, not cuspidate. Corolla twice as long as the 
calyx; upper lip densely villous at the tip.—Schweinf. & Volk., Liste 
Pl. Somalis, 12. 
Wile Land, Nubia: Coast-land, 3000-4000 ft., Bent! near Suakin, at Gebel 
Uaratab, Schweinfurth, 141! at Hor Tamanib, 300 ft., Lord! Singat, Schweinfurth, 
283! Somaliland : Salul River, Ghika, 
Also in Arabia. 
16. L. Jamesii, Boker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 225. A perennial, 
with woody obscurely tomentose stems. Leaves shortly petioled, Jan- 
ceolate, acute, subentire, cuneate at the base, subglabrous above, thinly 
pubescent beneath. Whorls many, many-flowered ; bracts minute. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, thinly hairy, } in. long, deeply 10-ribbed ; teeth 
minute. Upper lip of the corolla short, densely villous. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Zafarag, James & Thrupp! and without precise 
locality, Miss Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
17. L. milanjiana, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 141. A perennial 
herb, with slender shortly hairy stems. Leaves distant, small, sess 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or crenate, slightly hairy, narrowe 
to the base. Whorls few, distant, many-flowered ; bracts minute. Calyt 
hairy, funnel-shaped, 4 in. long, finely ribbed; throat subequal ; teet 
all minute. Corolla-lip } in. long, densely villous. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Makua Country, on the Namuli Hills 
Last! Beira, Braga, 7,109, British Central Africa; Nyasaland ; North Nyasa 
and Upper Loangwa River, at Fort Young, Nicholson! Blantyre, Buchanan, a 
25! Manganja Hills, Meller ! Ndirandi Mountain, near Blantyre, Scott-Elliot, 8578 - 
Plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., 
Whyte! Mount Mlanje, Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 537! 
