484 CII. LABIATA (BAKER). [ Leucas. 
39. La. lamioides, Buker. A perennial herb, with stems clothed 
with short spreading hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, deeply crenate, 
cuneate and entire at the base, thin, slightly hairy, the lower 2-3 in. 
long. Whorls distant, dense, many-flowered ; bracts small. Calyx 
slightly hairy, 1-4 in. long ; throat oblique ; lower lip produced j teeth 
deltoid-cuspidate. Upper lip of the corolla } in. long, densely hairy. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 482! 
40. L. Fleckii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 140. Stem erect, 
pubescent, simple or slightly branched. Leaves sessile or subsessile, 
linear-lanceolate, 2 in. long, }-} in, broad, subacute, irregularly serrate, 
pubescent on both surfaces. Whorls few-flowered ; bracts subulate, 
hairy, shorter than the calyx. Fruit-calyx } in. long ; throat oblique ; 
teeth all subulate. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Damaraland, Fleck, 733. 
Also in Namaqualand, south of the Tropic. 
41. L. Bakeri, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 877. A branched 
erect annual, with slender shortly hairy stems. Leaves distant, sessile, 
linear, subentire, thinly hairy on both sides, 1-2 in. long. Whorls 
distant, many-flowered ; bracts linear, shorter than the calyx, densely 
and rigidly ciliate. Calyx very hairy, 4 in. long ; throat oblique ; lower 
side produced ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, pungent, 1, in. long. Corolla 
not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Welwitsch, 3232! 5512! 5513! 
42. Ls. stricta, Baker. A much-branched erect annual, with long 
straight hairy slender stems. Leaves distant, sessile, linear or lanceo- 
late, subentire or inciso-crenate, 2-4 in. long, thinly hairy on both ipa 
Whorls few, distant, many-flowered ; bracts large, linear, rigidly an . 
densely ciliate. Calyx-tube densely hairy, } in. long ; throat obliqn® ; 
lower side much produced ; teeth deltoid, with large spinous cusps. ip 
of corolla fin. long; upper densely hairy.—L. glabrata, Britten in Trans. 
Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 37, not of R. Br. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; opposite Sen’, 
Kirk! Shiramba, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between the Sone 
River and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 5! Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort 
3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Mlanje, Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanam 
706! 
43. Le. villosa, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii, 137. Stem eres 
branched, villous. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 2-2} in. long, een 
broad, obtuse, narrowed to the base, crenate upwards, subeoriaceou™ 
covered with long hairs on both surfaces. Whorls many flower hn 
bracts linear-subulate, above } in. long. Calyx hairy, % in. long W 
in fruit ; throat very oblique, produced on the lower side; 3 uppe? toot 
