Leonotis.} Lcibiatce. 387 



6. Z<. zeylanica, Br. Prodr. 504 (1810). G-eta-tumba, S. 

 Muditumpai, T. 



Herm. Mus. i. Burm. Thes. 138. Fl. Zeyl. n. 227. Phloniis zey- 

 lanica, L. Sp. PI. 586. Moon Cat. 44. Thw. Enum. 240. C. P. 2076. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 689. Wight, 111. t. 176. 



Annual, stem 1-2 ft., erect, with long spreading branches 

 from the base overtopping main stem, quadrangular, hispid- 

 hairy; 1. variable in size, 1-35 in., nearly sessile, linear or 

 lanceolate-linear, tapering to base, obtuse, shallowly serrate, 

 often slightly recurved at margin, hispid on both sides, 

 venation prominent beneath, impressed above, lat veins very 

 oblique ; fl. nearly sessile, numerous, crowded, whorls only 

 2 or 3 usually combined to form a terminal head but the 

 lowest often separate, bracts numerous, linear, bristle-pointed 

 and strongly ciliate; cal. \ in., tubular-funnel-shaped, curved, 

 finely pubescent, mouth oblique, teeth usually 8, very short, 

 distant, upper one rather largest; lower lip of cor. with the 

 middle lobe large truncate, the lat. ones very small, reflexed ; 

 achene brown, shining. 



Var. j3, Walkeri, Hk.f. L. Walkeri, Benth. 1. c. 531. 



Stems with reflexed hair ; 1. narrower ; cal. -teeth usually 

 10; achenes pubescent. 



Waste ground throughout the Island; very common. Var. /3, on the 

 montane patanas. Fl. September-February ; pure white. 



Also in Assam, Burma, China, Malaya. 



A very variable plant. Both this and L. inarriibioides are much used 

 in native medicine. 



15. I.EONOTIS, Br. 



Large annual herb ; fl. large, nearly sessile, whorls few, 

 large, dense, distant, bracts setaceous, spinous ; cal. tubular, 

 segm. 8 or 10, unequal, rigid, spinous, the uppermost much 

 the largest ; cor.-tube long, slightly curved, exserted, upper 

 lip large, hooded, densely woolly on back, lower lip very 

 small, 3-lobed, the middle lobe the longest ; stam. included, 

 anth.-cells divaricate; achene glabrous. — Sp. 12; i in Fl. B. 

 Ind. (not African). 



Xi. nepetaefolia, Br. Prodr. 504 (1810). IHaha-yak-wanassa, 

 S. Kasitumpai, T. 



Moon Cat. 44. Thw. Enum. 241. C. P. 2070. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 691. Wight, Ic. t. 867. Bot. Reg. 281. 



Stem 4-6 ft., stout, erect, quadrangular with thickened 

 angles, very finely pubescent ; 1. 2I-4 in., ovate, tapering into 

 petiole, acute, coarsely dentate-serrate, very finely pubescent 



