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LEONOTIS NEPETZFOLIA. CATMINT-LEAVED 
LEONOTIS. 
SKK KKK KKK KK KEKE EEE 
Class and Order. 
DipyNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiartz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 10-striatus, 6—10-dentatus. Corolla galea elon- 
gata, barbata, integra ; labium inferius nanum, 3-fidum: 
laciniis subequalibus. Anthere lobis divaricatis. Stigma 
labio superiore brevior. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Leonoris * nepetefolia ; herbacea, foliis ovatis crenatis, caly- 
cis dentibus omnibus spinosis supremo maximo ovato, 
corollis (coccineis) calyce vix duplo longioribus. 
Benth. 
Leonotis nepetefolia. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 504. Ker, 
Bot. Reg. t. 281. Benth. Lab. p. 618. 
Putomis nepetefolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 820. 
Leonurus nepetefolia, Mill. Dict. n. 2. 
Leonurvus globosus. Mench, Meth. p. 400. 
Six species of this handsome Genus are enumerated by 
Mr. Benruam in his valuable work on the Lasiara, all of 
them natives of Africa: but the present one is found also in 
various parts of the continent of India and adjacent islands, 
and (probably imported) even in Brazil : and we have spe- 
cimens also from Trinidad and Demerara. Seeds are not 
unfrequently sent to this country, and occasionally culti- 
vated in the stove, though the plant is often too tall, em its 
eaves 
* From arwy, a lion, and es wns, an ear, froma fancied resemblance in the 
flowers to the ears of that animal. 
