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Leucas marruboidcs Desf. ; F.B.I, iv 683, XLV 13 ; 

 Climbing Dead-Nettie. 



Stem and branches four-angled, long and slender, 



straggling on bushes, etc., and white with a close felt of 



reflexed hairs. Leaves shortly stalked I to 2 by I to 



ij^ inches, ovate cordate, crenate ; or the upper side 



rough with the impressed veins ; on the lower white 



with a dense tomentum. Whorls many-flowered, dense, 



in the axils of the leaves : bracts linear V^ inch, woolly. 



Calyx campanulate ^ inch ; mouth straight, with ten 



nearly equal teeth of variable length, not hairy inside. 



Lower lip of corolla thin. 



Nilgiris and Pulney plateaus, flowering in winter months. 

 Fyson 1039, 3079. 



Gen. Dist, Mountains of South India and Ceylon. 



var pulncyensis. Remarkable for its straggling 

 habit, and attaining a height sometimes of 10 feet or 

 more : leaves not so thick, acute, sometimes with sides 

 so straight and base horizontal as to be triangular. 

 Flowers usually fewer (in my specimens two or three 

 only) in a whorl, but many in the type plant. Calyx- 

 teeth longer, half the tube. Corolla large, i inch : upper 

 lip 1/5 inch: lower M by ^ inch at the widest, with 

 rounded lobes, lateral spreading, falcate ; mid-lobe very 

 delicate in texture, and translucent between the lace- 

 like veins. 



Fyson 2087.* Bourne 286, 1334,* 1405, 2037, 2343. 



Leucas rosmarinifolia Benth. ; Wall. Cat. 2521 ! ; 

 F.B.I. iv 685, XLV 19. A small bush with flat top of dark 

 green erect leaves showing bare bifurcating branches 

 below (fig. d). Leaves in bunches (by development of 

 these of the axillary buds. Whorls at first close down 

 among the leafy branches, with two narrow leaves 

 appearing out of the middle, but in fruit raised on long 



