LABIATE. 333 



obovate-falcate lobe sticking forwards underneath the 

 mid-lope of the lip. Stamens four, the outer pair longer ; 

 anthers equal, reddish brown, opening longitudinally. 

 Nutlets % inch, smooth, oblong, t. 222. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1454. 



In the figure are shown, calyx, same opened showing the nutlets, 

 corolla with hood bent back, and underside of leaf. 



Very common in the grass of the downs. Nilgiris : Pykara, 

 Ootacamund. Flowering from May. JusonO^-j. Bourne 464g 

 as L. rosmarini folia. Also Anamalais. Not Pulneys. 



The hairs on the upper lip of the corolla must serve to 

 keep the very heavy dew of these downs from entering the tube, 

 or wetting the anthers. These latter are not visible being 

 entirely enclosed in the hairs, but are released from them and 

 come forward when the filaments are pressed as by a bee's head. 

 The plant never grows into a bush, but the long peduncle 

 (scape), carries the fruiting whorls 18 inches or more above 

 the ground and in this way gives the nutlets better chances of 

 wide dispersal. 



This species seems to taVe near Ootacamund and especially to the 

 north-west, in the direction of Pykara, the place of L. belianthemifolia on 

 the eastern side round Kotasriri, and on the Pulneys near Kodaikanal. In 

 form and in its habitat, among grass, it is very similar, but the general colour 

 is brownish -yellow on dark green, not silvery as the other species, and in 

 fniit especially the long peduncles sufficiently distinguish it. 



Leucas hclianthemifolia Desf. ; F.B.I. iv685, XLV20. 

 Hardly a shrub but stems and branches usually 6 to 

 18 inches, from a wood}^ base : all green parts covered 

 with silvery white hairs. Leaves two, three or even four 

 at a node, and often fascicled (leaves of the axillary 

 bud), linear oblong to elliptic ^ to lJ4 by J^ to J4 inch, 

 strongly one-ner\'ed, with recun^ed margin and densely 

 white tomentose under surface. Whorls many-flowered, 

 solitary or few, with one or two pairs oflinear leaves close 

 below, and often also a pair in the centre above. Bracts 

 linear, half the calyx. Calyx-tube J4 to J4 inch, not 

 shaggy ; teeth small ; mouth with short hairs. Corolla 

 Vz to 5^8 inch, much as in L. suffruticosa (q.v.). Nutlets 

 J^ inch, oblong. Wight Ic. t. 1453. 



