Lasiocorys. | LABIAT& (Skan), 373 
Distrip. Species 9, 6 in Tropical Africa and Arabia, 2 in Socotra and 1 in 
South Africa. Some authors regard the genus as a section of Zeucas from which 
it differs in usually having only 5 teeth to the calyx. 
1. L. capensis (Benth. Lab. 600) ; a slender divaricately branched 
shrub, up to 4 ft. high ; branches at first obscurely 4-angled, finally 
terete, canescent-puberulous, finally glabrous, rough with the short 
persistent bases of the petioles ; leaves in distant pairs or somewhat 
crowded on the short branchlets, petiolate to subsessile, linear- 
spathulate to obovate-spathulate, sometimes elliptic or lanceolate, 
3-13 (often 4-7) lin. long, ?-6 lin. broad, rounded, obtuse or rarely 
apiculate, narrowed at the base, entire or rarely few-toothed near 
the apex, shortly adpressed canescent-pubescent or glabrescent, 
often somewhat coriaceous; petiole up to 3 lin. long; whorls 
2—6-flowered, distant or crowded; bracts subulate, }-1} lin. long 
calyx sessile or shortly pedicellate, tubular-campanulate or cam- 
panulate, 3-34 lin. long, slightly oblique at the throat, 10-nerved, 
5-toothed (sometimes with 1 or 2 smaller additional teeth), coria- 
ceous, adpressed canescent-pubescent ; teeth deltoid, ovate or some- 
times narrowly triangular, usually ?—1} lin. long, shortly acuminate- 
spinescent, rarely obtuse ; corolla white, about 54 lin. long ; tube 
24-34 lin. long, slightly curved, retrorsely villous above, annular- 
papillose inside ; upper lip obovate, 2}-3 lin. long, slightly emar- 
ginate ; lower lip 23-3 lin. long; median lobe obovate or semi 
orbicular, 14-1} lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, emarginate ; lateral 
lobes about 1 lin. long and broad, rounded. EH. Meyer, Comm. 241 ; 
DC Prodr. xii. 534; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 66. Leucas capensis, 
Engl. Jahrb. x. 268. Phlomis capensis, Thunb. Prodr. 95, and Fl. 
Cap. ed, Schult. 446. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Ecklon! Zeyher, 1350! Thunberg! Prior! 
Coast ReGIon : Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 736 ! Sunday River 
and Coega River, Drége! between Sunday River and Addo, Drége! and without 
precise locality, Prior! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Cradock Place, Port Elizabeth, 
Galpin, 6375! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, Williamson! MacOwan, 621! 
Bedford Div.; Small-deal country, Burke! Victoria East Div., Cooper, 401! 
3108! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Shaw! Queenstown Div.; Kat River, 
800-900 ft., Baur! King Williamstown Div. ; near King Williamstown, T'yson, 
1022! 2198! banks of the Buffalo River, 1300 ft., Galpin, 5940! British Kaffraria, 
Pappe! 
Geveis Recion: Jansenville Div.; Zwart-Ruggens, 2500-3000 ft., Drége! 
Somerset Div. ; near Little Fish Kiver and Great Fish River, 2000-3000 ft., 
Drége! Graaff Reinet and Uitenhage Div., Bolus, 1661 ! : 
Kavanart Reaion: Griqualand West ; Albania, Shaw! Asbestos Mountains, at 
the Kloof Village, Burchell, 1660! between Griqua Town and Spuigslang Fontein, 
Burchell, 1700! Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1820! Orange River Colony, Mrs. 
Hutton! Olifants Fontein, Rehmann, 3789! Bechuanaland ; Batlapin Territory, 
near the Vaal River, Holub! Transvaal; near Pietersburg, 4000 ft., Bolus, 10859 ! 
Waterval River, Wilms, 1149! 
Eastern Recron: Natal; Mooi River Valley, Gerrard, 1217 ! 2000-8000 ft., 
Sutherland | and without precise locality, Miss Owen ! 
