378 LABIAT (Skan). [ Leonotis. 
densely-flowered ; bracteoles subulate, 3-5 lin. long, spinescent ; 
pedicels 7-4 lin. long; calyx curved, 9-10 lin. long, somewhat 
densely covered with short hispid hairs, prominently 10-nerved ; 
teeth 8, all spinescent ; uppermost tooth deltoid, 1?-24 lin. long ; 
other teeth narrowly deltoid to subulate, $—-1 lin. long ; corolla 
deep orange-yellow, 13-20 lin. long ; tube 7-11 lin. long ; upper lip 
6-9 lin. long ; lower lip about 4 lin. long. 
KaaHariI Recion: Transvaal; Jeppestown Ridges, Johannesburg, 6000 it., 
Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6169! Meintjies Kop, Pretoria, 4800 ft., Burtt-Davy, 
3936 ! Heidelberg, Miss Leendertz, 1035! 
5. L. mollis (Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 242) ; shrubby, at least 
at the base ; stems up to 3 ft. high, very densely covered with short 
adpressed soft hairs ; leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, usually 
3-1? in. long and broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, broadly 
and shallowly cordate, truncate or slightly cuneate at the base, 
crenate or crenate-serrate, densely and shortly velvety-pubescent 
especially beneath, rather thick; petiole 3-2 in. long; whorls 
solitary or few, densely flowered ; bracteoles subulate or linear, up 
to 7 lin. long, spinescent ; calyx 94-11 lin. long, densely and shortly 
pubescent and sometimes with a few longer hairs on the upper part ;. 
teeth 8, all rigidly spinescent ; uppermost tooth deltoid, up to 44 
lin. long including the long spine; other teeth narrowly deltoid, 
3-1 lin. long ; corolla deep orange-yellow, up to about 1} in. long ; 
tube 8-10 lin. long; upper lip 7-8 lin. long ; lower lip 33-4} lin. 
long. DOC. Prodr. xii. 536. 
Var. 8, albiflora (Skan) ; somewhat less velvety-pubescent ; corolla white. 
Souru Arrica; without locality, Mund ! 
Coast Recion : Uitenhage Div.; Addo, Drége, 7953b! Zeyher, 1349 partly ! 
Zuurberg Range, Drége, 7958c! banks of the Coega River, Prior! Albany Div. ; 
Howisons Poort, Hutton! near Grahamstown, Bolton! Queenstown Div. ; 
mountain sides near Queenstown, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1825! 
CenTRAL REGION: Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker, 107! Bruintjes 
Hoogte, lower part, Burchell, 3008! Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 
2600 ft., Bolus, 545! Beaufort West Div. ; Nieuwveld Mountains near Beaufort 
West, 3000-5000 ft., Drége, 79530! Philipstown Div.; near Riet Fontein, 
Burchell, 2732! Var. 8B: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, MacOwan ! 
Katanari Recton: Orange River Colony ; Sand Drift, Burke ! 
6. L. brevipes (Skan); stems herbaceous, at least in the upper 
part, 1}-1} lin. in diam., rounded on the angles, 4-furrowed, 
densely covered with short fine grey recurved hairs ; leaves ovate 
to narrowly ovate, 14-24 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, obtusely or 
subacutely acuminate at the apex, truncate-cuneate to slightly 
cordate at the base, dentate-serrate, densely greyish velvety- 
pubescent, especially beneath, moderately thick ; terminal tooth 
narrowly deltoid, 3-5 lin. long, often (as well as some of the lateral 
teeth) with a minute callous apiculus ; petiole of the upper leaves 
2-6 lin. long; whorls solitary, globose, compact, many-flowered ; 
