Meyer, and LZ. nepetaefolia alluded to above, The subject 
of our plate, L. dysophylla, is recorded from the Orange 
River Colony, the Transvaal, Transkei, Griqualand East 
and Natal. The plant which supplied the material for the 
illustration flowered in January last in the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, having been raised there from seed 
received from Mr, G. Thorncroft, Barberton, Transvaal. The 
seed was sown in an Intermediate House in February; the 
plants were grown on and planted out of doors for the 
summer, and given very much the treatment of bedding 
plants. The more vigorous individuals were taken up in 
autumn and flowered in pots during the winter. The 
species may, Mr. Lynch informs us, be grown as an 
ordinary greenhouse plant under the treatment suitable for 
L. Leonurus, and, as in the case of that species, stopping 
must be done with discretion, so as to secure the strongest 
possible flowering shoots. 
Description.— Herb; stems stout, 2-3 ft. high or taller, 
woody at the base, densely puberulous. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, occasionally ovate, 3-35 in. long, over 1 in. 
wide, obtuse or subacute, narrowed to the base, rather 
regularly crenate or crenate-serrate, shortly softly pubes- 
cent or often densely villous, especially beneath, often 
rather thick ; petiole 2-11 in. long. Verticillasters solitary 
or two superposed, large and many-flowered ; bracteoles 
linear, 3-2 in. long, spinescent at the tip; pedicels over 
1 lin. long. Calyx almost tubular, incurved, 3-1 in. long, 
adpressed puberulous; teeth 8, spinescent, the uppermost 
deltoid-ovate, 2-3 lin. long, much larger than the rest. 
Corolla orange, 1-14 in, long, incurved, densely villous 
outside above; tube almost cylindric, as long as the calyx- 
tube; upper lip oblong, concave, 2-3 in. long, entire; lower 
lip 3-lobed, 4-5 lin. long, mid-lobe obovate, retuse, 3-4 lin. 
long, lateral lobes elliptic, rather shorter. Stamens ascend- 
ing under the upper lip; filaments villous. Style ultimately 
rather longer than the stamens, 2-fid, the posterior lobe 
very small. Nutlets somewhat trigonous, with truncately 
rounded tips, finely papillose; disk cupular, rather deeper 
in front. 
en flower; 2, corolla-tube laid open, showing the stamens; 3 and 4, 
5, ovary and disk; 6, up} er portion of style :—all enlarged. 
