146 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
pilose or setose pubescence or sometimes quite glabrous; 
leaves usually coriaceous, and persistent; flowers axillary, 
peduncled, mostly crowded toward the end of the branches 
or lateral branchlets, forming terminal panicles, spikes or 
heads; bracts subulate, rarely linear-lanceolate; bractlets 
small, not exceeding half of the ovary, distinct; calyx 
with ovate to lanceolate teeth; corolla two-lipped, not ex- 
ceeding 3 cm. in length, red, yellow or sometimes whitish ; 
tube usually slightly ventricose and curved, about as long 
as or somewhat longer than the limb; style pilose; fruit 
black, crowned by the persistent calyx. 
A. Leaves glabrous or pubescent only beneath, often ciliate; bracts 
subulate, shorter than or as long as ovaries; corolla glabrous | 
without, rarely sparingly pilose. 
B. Leaves oval to oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, mucronulate, 
rarely acutish, thickish, ciliate; low, creeping shrubs, 
C. Bracts obtusish, very short; leaves oval-oblong, 3-5 cm. 
long; branchlets rather stout. 
104. L. rhododendroides, Graebn. 
CC. Bracts subulate, acute; leaves oval, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; 
corolla red, about 1.5 cm. long, tube slightly curved, 
longer than limb. 105. L. crassifolia, Batal. 
BB. Leaves ovate to lanceolate; twining shrubs. 
C. Leaves more or less ciliate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 
acuminate; flowers 1,5-2 cm. long, red. 
D. Leaves narrowed or rounded at the base, but slightly 
ciliate, otherwise glabrous, 3-6 cm. long; tube longer 
than limb. 106. LZ. alseuosmoides, Graebn. 
DD. Leaves subcordate or rounded at the base, ciliate, usually 
pubescent on the midrib, rarely on the whole under 
side, 4-9 cm. long; tube about as longas limb; fila- 
ments pilose at the base. 107. LZ. Henryi, Hemsl. 
CC. Leaves glabrous or pubescent only beneath, not ciliate, ovate 
to oblong-ovate or elliptic. 
D. Leaves rounded or subcordate at the base, only occa- 
sionally somewhat narrowed, ovate to oblong-ovate. 
E. Leaves acute or acuminate; corolla 2.5-3 cm, long. 
F. Leaves rounded or somewhat narrowed at the 
base, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, long 
acuminate, 8-14 cm. long; bracts slightly 
longer than ovaries; flowers in long terminal 
spikes, red. 108. L. fuchsioides, Hemsl. 
