Leucas. | CXII. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 691 
Cat. Bomb. Pl. 153; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl.911. L. lavandulefolia, 
Sm. in Rees Cyclop. Phlomis linifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 260. P. zeylanica, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 9; Jacg. Ic. Pl. Rar. i. 11, t.111. Leonurus indicus, 
Burm, Fl. Ind. 127.—Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. t. 16, f. 1. 
PraiNS of INDIA; from Assam and Bengal and Silhet to Singapore. In the 
Deccan; from the Concan to Travancore (not seen from the W. or N.W. Provinces 
of India, nor from Ceylon).—DrsrRtB. Mauritius, Malay Islands. 
Stem 2-8 ft., usually stout and much branched above. Leaves rarely 3 in. broad; 
petiole O-} in. Whorls towards the ends of the branches, 3-$ in. diam.; bracts 
setaceous. Calyx pale below, not striate above, toothing variable, sometimes 
spinescent. 
Var. decipiens; hispidly hairy, bracts very many ciliate, tips spinescent, calyx 
larger hirsute or pubescent, teeth longer spinous, uppermost pungent. L. aspera, 
Pl. Ind. Or. Hohenack. m. 1234.—South Deccan; Pycarrah, Wight; Nilghiris, 
Hohenacker.—Contounded with L. aspera in various collections, with which it agrees 
in hairiness. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
L. DIMIDIATA, Spreng. Syst. ii. 743; stem hairy, leaves oblong-lanceolate sub- 
serrate hirsute, whorls dimidiate, calyx oblong hairy above, teeth 10 subulate subpun- 
gent.—East Indies.—Probably Z. aspera, to which belongs the specimen referred 
to this species by Bentham in his * Labiatarum Gen. & Sp.," and which is entirely 
different from L. diffusa. 
46. LEONOTIS, Br. 
Herbs or shrubs. Whorls axillary, densely many-fld.; bracteoles many, 
slender; flowers scarlet or yellow. Calyx 10-nerved, often incurved, mouth 
oblique; teeth 8-10, rigid, upper largest. Corolla-tube exserted; upper 
lip long, concave, crown villous; lower very small, spreading, concave, 
midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 
Disk equal. Style subulate, upper lobe very short. Wutlets oblong or 
ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse or truncate, glabrous.—Species 12, African, one 
also Indian. 
L. nepetefolia, Br. Prodr. 504; herbaceous, leaves membranous 
ovate crenate, bracts spinescent, calyx $-1 in., upper lip prominent rigid 
spinescent, lower with three erect or recurved spinescent teeth. Benth. in 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar.i.59, Lab. 618, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 535; Wall. Cat. 
2042; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 153; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211; Wight 
Ill. ii. t. 176 bis, f. 11, and Ze. t. 867; Bot. Reg. t. 281; Bot. Mag. t. 3700. 
Phlomis nepetafolia, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ài. 8. Leonurus globosus, 
Moench Meth. 400. 
Throughout hotter India, from the Panjab to Travancore 
very common ; cultivated and naturalized, doubtfully indigenous. 
rier parts.— . Tropical Asia, Africa and America, . 
A tall aonwal, 4. 6 M "Etem as thick as the finger, 4-angled with concave faces, 
puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in. ; floral lanceolate, deflexed ; petiole 1—3 in., winge 
above, slender. Whorls distant, globose, 2-3 in. diam., squarrose ; bracts slender, 
linear, deflexed. Cal in. I ibbed and reticulate, pubescent or villous, 
, . yr $ in. long, ri i ; 
tubular, incurved, teeth spinescent, upper i in. long ; throat glabrous. | Corolla 
orange-red, 1 in. long; tube slender, exserted, villous like the upper lip, lower lip 
Minute. Nutlets linear-oblong, widening upwards, truncate, 
and Singapore, but not 
CEYLON ; in the 
47. PHLOMIS, Linz. 
Whorls axillary, dense-fld.; bracteoles many, ovate 
Herbs or shrubs. rye 
