680 CXII. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Otostegia. 
lower spreading, 3-fid, midlobe broad. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers con- 
niving, cells at length divaricate. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets obovoid, 
obtuse.—Species 8, Oriental. 
O. limbata, Benth. mss.; hoary, leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 
obtuse quite entire nerveless, bracts spinescent. Ballota limbata, Benth. 
Lab. 743, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 521. 
PANJAB; lower hills in rocky places west of the Jhelum to the Salt range, 
Falconer, Jacquemont, &c. . 
A small grey spiny bush; branches tomentose, white, terete; spines 3-3 in. 
Leaves 1 in., base narrowed, hoary on both surfaces, floral exceeding the calyces. 
Whorls distant; lower bracts spinescent, upper dilated, pungent. Calyx villous, 
throat bearded ; flowering 2 in., turbinate, with a broad membranous 5-toothed limb, 
which in fruit expands into a reticulated 5-angled cup, $ in. diam., with often toothed 
margins. Corolla } in., tube short; upper lip very long, villous. Stamens exserted. 
Nutlets 3 in., solitary ?, flattened, smooth. 
45. LEUCAS, Br. 
Woolly or villous rarely glabrate herbs or undershrubs. Whorls 
axillary, usually distant. ` Calyx 10-nerved, striate; mouth equal or 
oblique, equally or unequally 6-10-toothed. Corolla-tube included, annu- 
late or not within ; upper lip erect, concave, crown villous; lower spreading, 
3-fid, midlobe very large. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells 
divaricate at length confluent. Style subulate, posterior lobe obsolete. 
Nutlets ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse.—Species 50, Asiatic and African. 
Sect. 1. Hemistoma. Calyx membranous, mouth oblique, split 
above, produced below. Whorls dense, many-fid., bracteoles equalling 
the calyx. 
l. L. urticefolia, Br. Prodr, 504; annual, leaves ovate coarsely 
toothed, whorls remote globose, calyx cylindric reticulated 4-3 in. pubescent 
or villous, lower lip truncate, teeth minute. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xi. 
924; Wight IH. t. 176 b. f. 10, and Ie. t. 1451 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fi. 212; l 
Boiss. F l. Orient. iv. 778. L. membranacea, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2052. 
Phlomis urticæfolia, Vahl Symb. ii. 76; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 11. 
UPPER GawGETIO PLAIN; from Patna to the Panjab, and southward to SCINDE, 
CoROMANDEL and MALABAR.— DISTRIB. Beluchistan, Arabia, Abyssinia. 
Annual Stem 6-18 in., hoary. Leaves 2-3 in., petioled, glabrous or hoary- 
Whorls 1 in. diam.; bracts ciliate: Corolla white, not annulate. 
Sect. 2. Ortholeucas. Calyz straight, mouth nearly equal, throat 
naked; teeth 10, triangular, subulate or lanceolate. Whorls numerous, 
axillary ; bracts usually minut i feri, 13. marru- 
bioides and 15. pubescens). mute, setaceous (long in 4. Heifer, 
* Perennial rooted. Branches terete. Calyx-teeth not } the length of 
the tube. 
2. L. teres, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 62, Lab. 608, and in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 526; shrubby, hoary-pubescent, branches very slender terete, 
leaves very shortly petioled elliptic obtuse subserrate, whorls few-fld., bracts 
minute, calyx-teeth minute subulate. Wall. Cat. 2060. 
BURMA; banks of the Irawaddi, Wallich. 
Branches long, hairs deflexed. Leaves 3-1 in., scaberulous above, tomentose 
