532 LABIAT.E. 



stalks well above the bush ; there being usually two 

 whorls to each such scape, separated by 4 or 5 inches. 

 Bracts as long as the calyx, oblanceolate, like it softly 

 villous or silky. Hairs on margin of calyx, white, 

 longer than the teeth (in dried fruiting flowers they 



appear as long only or shorter), t. 221. 



Nilgiris : Biki, east of Ootacamund. Fyson 1790. Bourne 



4648. 



The figure (ex. i/and e) I give with reserve as it was sent to me by 

 Lady Bourne as of L. suffruticosa. The only specimen corresponding 

 to it in the Bourne collection, No. 4648, appears to be this species for 

 it agrees fairly well with my sheet No. 1790, compared at Kew. I have 

 added figures d and e from a sketch made at the time of collection. 



Lcucas suffruticosa Bentham ; F.B.I, iv 685, XLV l8. 

 Rootstock thick as the finger, perennial. Stems numer- 

 ous, tufted, 4 to 8 inches high, branched, covered with 

 yellow, appressed hairs. Leaves I to I^ hy Y^ io % 

 inch, those on the stem usually larger than those on the 

 branches, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong ; closely covered 

 on the upper side and on the strong midrib below with 

 short, stiff hairs pointing forwards ; white below be- 

 tween the strongly recurved margins : midrib stout, 

 lateral veins not visible : in bud markedly erect, later 

 on spreading. Whorls peduncled 2 to 8 inches above 

 the ordinary leaves, but with two immediately below : 

 calyx and bracts hairy like the stem. Bracts 1/5 inch, half 

 the length of the calyx, subulate. Calyx campanulate, 

 2/5 inch, evenly ten-ribbed and toothed, the teeth 

 1/50 inch; mouth surrounded by bristles as long or 

 slightly longer. Corolla tube 1/16 inch longer than the 

 calyx : hood arching well forwards, densely covered with 

 closely set white hairs, 1/12 inch long, which curve for- 

 wards underneath also, almost closing the entrance to the 

 tube ; middle lobe of the lower lip J^ inch wide, semi- 

 circular, notched in the middle, crinkled ; side lobes, 

 ^4 inch broad, recurved, thin, with a comparatively long 



