494 CII. LABIATE (BAKER). [ Leonotis. 
10, L. Schinzii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 143. Stems branched, 
glabrous or pubescent. Leaves petioled, lanceolate, 13-2 in. long, acu 
deeply serrate, glabrous on both surfaces, the veins raised beneath. 
Bracts subulate, spinous. Calyx about # in. long, entirely glabrous a 
pubescent upwards; teeth 8, deltoid, rigid, spinous, the upper longest. 
Corolla orange-yellow. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; near Kurumanas, 
Fleck, 568 ; Great Namaqualand ; Homeib, Schinz, 40. 
39. OTOSTEGIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 1213. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 1(-ribbed ; limb scarious, bilabiate ; upper 
lip small, ovate; lower much broader, orbicular-cuneate, subentire or 
erenate. Corolla-tube included, with a ring of hairs inside; limb 
bilabiate; upper lip arcuate, densely hairy outside ; lower deflexed, 
3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate; lower pair the longest ; 
anther-cells divaricate. Disk equal. Style bifid at the apex; nucules 
ovoid, obtuse.—Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves sessile or petioled, 
entire orcrenate. Flowers few or many in laxly disposed leafy whorls 
bracts herbaceous or spinous. 
Species about 10, the others inhabiting Arabia, North India and the Orient. 
Leaves subsessile, entire. 
Bracts with a pungent point 1. O. integrifolia. 
Bracts without a pungent point 2. O. Steudnert. 
Leaves subsessile, crenate 3. O. tomentosa. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, crenate. . 
Lower lip of calyx obscurely crenate . . . . 4 O. scariosa. 
Lower lip of calyx distinctly crenate. 
Whorls many-flowered . . . . . 5. O. repanda. 
Whorls 2-flowered . . . . . . 6. O. modesta. 
1. O.integrifolia, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 522. A much-branched 
shrub, with slender woody branches, clothed with fine white tomentum ; 
nodes bearing a couple of large spreading spines from each side. Teave 
nearly sessile, lanceolate, entire, 1-2 in. long, cuneate at the base, clothe ; 
on both sides with white tomentum. Whorls few or many, 5—~6-flowered , 
bracts rigid, tricuspidate. Calyx sessile; tube } in. long, dense y 
pubescent, with 10 raised ribs; upper lip small, oblong, pointed, entire; 
Jower orbicular-cuneate, } in. broad, faintly crenate. Corolla reaching 
to the tip of the lower lip—A Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 1975 ine 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 369. Moluccella integrifolia, R. Br. Salt, 
Abyss. Append. 64. ' 
Nile Land. Eritrea; Arrot Valley, 4200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, ern. 
environs of Acrur, 6100 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1184! Abyssinia : Tigre ; hills 
near Dungera Go, in the Memsach district, Schimper, 228! Samen ; Ataba, Steudner, 
1 
1381! Shire Province, Pedit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 789 | 1850! 
Quartin-Dillon & Petit,11! 
