6. Anisomeebs.] 83. LABIATE. [7 Lbuch. 



purplish flowers in axillary dense flowered whorls and 

 terminal spikes. 



Waste ground, frequent. Ranchi plateau ; S. P., common. Fla. Sept.* 

 Nov. Fr. Dec- J any. 



Calyx £" hirsute within and without, with sub- equal acuminate teetn. 

 Corolla upper lip pale or greenish nearly flat entire, lower purple spreading 

 3-lobed, mid-lobe longest vertically compreased notched. St. exserted 

 upper pair slightly longer with 1-celled anthers, lower 2-celled. Filament 

 purple bearded. Nutlets ^"iV' blaok polished. 



7. Leucas, R.Br.- 



Herbs or undershrubs, usually tomentose or villous with 

 white flowers in axillary, more rarely terminal, whorls. Calyx 

 10-nerved, 6- 10- toothed, mouth sometimes oblique. Cor.- 

 tube included. Upper lip erect hooded villous, lower spread- 

 ing 3-fid, with very large mid-lobe. Anthers conniving, 

 cells divaricate, afc length confluent. Style simple. 



1. L.mollissima, Wall Gitil a:, Ho. ; Gitil arak', 8. 



An undershrub or he with many annual branches 

 8*-2 ft. long from a perennial rootstock, with hairy or 

 pubescent or almost tomentose short petioled ovate or oblong 

 crenate-serrate leaves about 2" by 1" and white flowers |* 

 long in axillary 6^14-fld. whorls. 



Very common in rocky jungles, also in waste ground. Fla. Bept-Deo. 

 Fr. Nov.-Dec. 



Branches occasionally 4 ft. among undergrowth, 4-angled with 

 reflexed appressed hairs. L. attaining 2^ v by H", smaller upwards, acute 

 or obtuse. Petiole %-§''. Calyx-tube £ |* cylindric 10-ribbed, teeth 10 

 very short, hispid (var. soaberula) or woolly. Cor. upper lip small, 

 lower with two small recurved side lobes and a broad spreading rounded 

 mid -lobe. 



The leaves are eaten as a pot-herb. 



There are some 9 other species of Leucas in Chota Nagpur, mostly field 

 weeds. Among these L. Cephalotes, Bpreng, Andia durap arak', £.,ii 

 conspicuous from its large sub-globose terminal whorl with many large 

 awned bracts. " The seeds of this yield a medicinal oil," Campbell, and 

 the leaves are eaten as a pot-herb. Fls. Dec J any. 



Leonotis nepetaafolia, E. Br. Dare dhompo, janum dhompo, B. % in 

 a tall herb 4-7 ft. high usually occurring near villages, sometimes also in 



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