334 LABIATE. 



On the open downs. Pulneys : above Kodalkanal, very 

 abundant. Nilgiris : more common on the drier side, between 

 Ootacamund and Kotagiri. Fyson 526, 1691, 1834, 2089. 

 Bourne 8, 443, 1171,* etc., 1725. 



Gen, Dist. South Indian hills. 



Varies somewhat in habit ; the leaves in some plants being very stiff 

 almost horizontal and not more than two and a half times as long as broad, 

 in others narrower and erect. In some the foliage is on the whole a light 

 silvery green, in others a dark green. 



Leucas laenceaBfolia Desf. ; F.BJ. iv 685, XLV 21 ; 

 Giant Leucas. 



Stem 4 to 8 feet coated with reddish yellow tomentum. 

 Leaves lanceolate, 2 to 4 by J^ to 1/4 inches, pubescent 

 and drying black above, white tomentose underneath, 

 with distinct nerves and veins ; not quite entire, but 

 shallowly-crenate, or margin notched at % inch inter- 

 vals : odour strong and disagreeable. Whorls many- 

 flowered and very dense, usually three or four to a branchi 

 the lower with fair-sized leaves just below. Calyx quite 

 symmetrical : mouth without hairs inside : teeth ten, 

 1/20 inch long with no or much shorter hairs between. 

 Corolla white, or the lower lip cream-coloured : upper 

 lip as in L. suffruticosa. t. 223. Wight Ic. t. 1452. 



On both plateaus, by the margins of sholas, quite common 

 and often in thick clumps, flowers summer and autumn. On 

 these hills only. Fyson 6991, 2026, 1085, 3080, 2937. 

 Bourne 1726, 4647, 2345. 



Leucas vz^\\\2^Benth.; F.BJ. iv 686, XLV 25. Dis- 

 tinguished from all our other species by the brown upper 

 lip of the corolla. 



Stem 2 to 4 feet, shaggy with red or brown hairs. 

 Leaves 3 by l^ inches, with ^ inch stalk, ovate, acute 

 at both ends, coarsely serrate, covered on the upper side 

 and nerves of the lower, with shaggy hairs, and on the 

 lower surface by a close tomentum. Whorls I to ij^ 

 inches across, very dense and semi-spherical, in the 

 axils of the ordinary leaves- Bracts J^ to ^ inch, 



