Leueus. — Phlomis. 833 
convex; lower about as long, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; 
anther-cells divaricate, finally confluent. Disk equal or obliquely 
produced. Style with a very short upper lobe. Nucules ovoids 
triquetrous. — Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 
entire or toothed; upper floral leaves like the others or reduced. 
Whorls few or many-flowered, usually remote. Corolla pallid; upper 
lip densely clothed with white hairs. 
Species about 100. spread through the tropical regions of the Old 
World, one also American. 
1169. Leucas inflata Benth. Labiat. (1832—1836), p. 744. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 778. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 122 no.832. — A low shrub, 20—30 cm high, or sometimes, 
especially in shady localities, somewhat more, woolly-canescent. 
Lower leaves short-petioled, obovate-cuneate, obtuse, 3—4-toothed 
at tip; the floral ones sessile, cordate-orbicular, as long as the flowers 
or longer. Whorls 6—10-flowered, numerous, distinct; bracts obso- 
lete; calyx white-hirsute, ovate-inflated, with contracted mouth, and 
triangular-lanceolate, acuminate teeth. — Flow. March to May. 
D. a. sept. Suez. 
Also known from Sinai. 
479. (16.) Phlomis Tourn. 
Calyx tubular, striate, often sulcate, with equal, truncate mouth, 
and acute, obtuse, or retuse teeth. Corolla-tube included, hairy ringed 
within, with compressed, arched hood, and spreading, trifid lower lip. 
Stamens ascending under hood, the upper filaments often spurred 
at base. Anthers in pairs, with divaricating, confluent cells. Nutlets 
3-angled. — Herbs or shrubs, generally woolly or fleecy. 
A large genus widely distributed in the Mediterranean region and 
South Europe. 
1170. Phlomis floccosa Don. in Bot. Reg. XV (1829), tab. 1300. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 786. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., 
p- 122 no. 833. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 662 
no. 249. —- Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., p.802 no. 203. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. dEg., Supplem. p. 771. — Sickenberg. Contrib. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 267. — Phlomis Samia var. bicolor Viv. Flor. Lilyce., 
p- 30 tab. 15. — Phlomis bicolor Bentham Labiat., p. 629. — A 
perennial plant, 60 cm to 1 m high, sometimes somewhat more, 
lanate-wooly, flocculent. Leaves oblong, 5—10 cm long, 2—3 cm 
broad, the lower one truncate or subcordate at the base, short-petioled. 
Whorls many flowered, as large as a walnut or larger, distant; bracts 
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