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-Putomis Lronurus, Lion’s-Tait PuHiomis, 
AR sei delsiede lee seleespeabse set 
Cla/s and Order. 
Drpynamra GyMNosPERMIA. 
= Cane Charaffer. 
Cal. angulatus. Cor. labium fuperius incumbens compreffum 
villofum. 
Specific Charager and Synonyms. EO 
Be aa ae : cg 
_ PHLOMIS Leonurus foliis lanceolatis ferratis calycibus deca- 
~- gonis decemdentatis muticis,~ caule fruticofo. 
Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 540. Mant. 
412. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 209. 
STACHYS africana frutefcens anguttifolia flore longiffimo 
_ pheeniceo Leonurus diéta. Mori/. Hi. 3. p. 383- 
oe a eee a 
_ LEONURUS Capitis bone fpei. Breyn Cent. 171. t. 86. : 
_LEONURUS africana. Mill. Dia. ~ 
_ Descr. Rifes with a fhrubby ftalk feven or eight feet high, 
fending out feveral four-cornered branches garnifhed with ob- 
_long- narrow leaves, acutely indented on their edges, hairy on 
their upper, and veined on their under fide, ftanding oppofite ; 
the flowers are produced in whorls, each of the branches a 
having two or three of thefe whorls toward their ends; they 
are of the labiate kind; fhaped fomewhat like thofe of thedead- 
nettle, but are much longer and covered with fhort hairs; 
they are of a golden fcarlet colour, fo make a fine appearance: 
the flowers commonly appear in O@ober and November, and 
fometimes continue till the middle of December, but are not 
fucceeded by feeds here. Pe oS poe 
Is propagated by cuttings, which if planted the beginning __ 
of July, after the plants have been expofed to the open air 
long enough to harden, will take root very freely ; when they — 
have taken root, each cutting is to be planted in a feparate 
pot filled with foft loamy earth and treated as a greenhoufe 
plant, taking care to give it plenty of water in dry weather. 
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_ It is a native of the Cape and other parts of Afr 
cultivated in Chelfea garden in 1712. Ait Kew. 
Linn us remarks in his Mantiffa, that it is the moft fhewy 
of the genus. ~ ee 
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