Leucas. | CXII. LABIATH. (J. D. Hooker.) 687 
rate pubescent above tomentose beneath, whorls subsolitary and terminal 
many- and dense-fld., calyx 3-3 in. tubular narrowed below villous, teeth 
slender erect ciliate longer than the villi of the mouth, corolla large. Wight 
le. t. 338. 
Soutn DECCAN PENINSULA; Wight. Pulney and Balaramgan Hills (Mysore), 
Beddome. 
A more slender plant than L. lamiifolia, apparently annual, more sparsely hairy, 
with narrower leaves, smaller heads, longer calyx and larger corolla. 
Var. oblongifolia; shorter, stem woody below, leaves smaller 11-2 in. more 
oblong and villous above.—Courtallam, Wight. 
VaR. sericostoma; branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves silkily villous, 
calyx-teeth shorter than the long white silky hairs of the mouth.—-Anamallay Hills, 
Beddome. 
Var. angustifolia; tall, branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves 2-3 by 4 in. 
elliptic-lanceolate obtuse, calyx-teeth as long as two-thirds of the tube.—Sisparah, 
Wight; Palghat high range, Beddome. 
26. L. hirta, Spreng. Syst. ii. 743; villously hirsute or scabrid, stem 
woody below, leaves 1-2 in. sessile or shortly petioled elliptic or linear 
oblong obtuse obscurely toothed, whorls solitary terminal, bracts as long as 
the scabrid turbinate calyx, calyx-teeth recurved equalling or shorter than 
the copious villi of the mouth. Benth. Lab. 613, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 
530. L. helianthemifolia, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 61; Wall. Cat. 
2058, non Desf. L. rufescens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2053. Phlomis hirta, 
Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 264. 
DrccaN PENINSULA; Bangalore, Rottler; Nilghiri, Mysore and Shevaghery 
Hills, Wight. . 
Probably a dry country or locality form of Z. vestita, much smaller, more scabridly 
hirsute or villous, with very much smaller leaves and calyces and longer villi of the 
mouth than the latter. The hairs on the branches are deflexed or spreading, rarely 
appressed. . 
Var. prostrata; smaller, more slender, branches prostrate or ascending, leaves 
4-1 in. broadly ovate often petioled, villi of calyx-mouth shorter.—Anamallay and 
Nilghiri Hills, alt. 6-8000 ft. . . . 
Var.? Beddomei; erect, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves 2-24 in. 
linear-oblong subsilkily villous on both surfaces, whorls in several axils, calyx 3 in., 
teeth very small recurved triangular subulate spinescent longer than the villi of the 
mouth.—Chambra Peek, Wynaad, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 
27. L. ciliata, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 61, Lab. 614, and 
in DC. Prodr. xi. 530; stem and branches hirsute with spreading and 
deflexed hairs, leaves petioled 2-4 in. ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate 
pubescent or glabrate, whorls globose large many- and dense-fld. terminal 
and axillary, bracts as long as the calyx hirsute, calyx $-i in. tubular 
scabrid or villous, teeth long slender patent or recurved, mouth wide naked 
or ciliate. Wall. Cat. 2046; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 211. 
TE ALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft. J. D. H. ; 
Bhoten, Grifith.. HASTA Mrs. alt. 4-5000 ft.; Wallich, &c. Deccan PENIN- 
SULA; on the Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore. 
A tall annual? 1-3 ft.,stem branched, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves membra- 
nous, narrowed at the base; petiole 4-4 in. Whorls 1-1} in, diam., crinite from the 
slender long bracts and calyx-teeth. Calyx very variable in size and hairiness beet 1 
flexuous, ciliate, in small forms more than half as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 
Included. — Nu£iets 15-1 in., oblong, smooth. 
lyx or 
Sect. 4. Plagiostoma. Bracts usually as long as the caly 
nearly so. Calya turbinate obconic or tubular, mouth very oblique, the 
