23. Leonotis.] 106. LABIATE. 



23. LEONOTIS, Br. 



Tall herbs or shrubs with scarlet or yellow flowers in dense axillary- 

 whorls with many slender, sometimes spinescent, bracts. Calyx 10- 

 nerved, often incurved with oblique mouth and 8-10 rigid teeth, the 

 upper largest. Corolla-tube exserted, upper lip long concave with 

 villous crown ; lower very small, spreading, concave, midlobe largest. 

 Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. Disc 

 regular. Style subulate, upper lobe very short. Nutlets oblong or 

 ovoid, 3-quetrous, obtuse or truncate, glabrous. 



1. L. nepetsefolia, Br. Dare-dhompo, Janum-dhompo, S. ; Konto- 

 sidho. Or. 



A rather handsome tall herb 4-7 ft. high, rather strict, with thick 

 4-angled and -grooved puberulous stems, large ovate crenate leaves 

 4-8" long below, smaller more lanceolate and deflexed under the 

 whorls, and large distant globose Avhorls 2-3" diam. of scarlet flowers 

 with spinescent bracts and calyx-teeth. 



Usually near villages and not indigenous in our area. Frequent in Chota 

 Nagpur ! Angul ! Fl. Oct.-Jan. 



Petiole 1-3", winged above. Bracts slender, linear. Calyx '75", upper lip -25" 

 long spinescent, lower with 3 spinescent teeth, throat glabrous, outside pubescent. 

 Corolla 1" long with slender exserted tube, villous. Nutlets linear oblong, widening 

 upwards, truncate. 



24. TEUCRIUM, L. 



Herbs or shrubs. Flowers in 2-6-fld. axillary whorls or terminal 

 spikes, racemes or heads. Calyx 10-nerved, teeth 5 equal or the upper 

 larger. Corolla-tube not annulate within ; limb 1-lipped, the 2 

 upper and lateral lobes cimeate and very short or obsolete, lower lobe 

 very large. Stamens 4, exserted, anther reniform, cells short, at 

 length confluent. Disc regular. Style-lobes subequal. Nutlets 

 minute reticulate, smooth or rugulose with large oblique or lateral 

 hilum. 



1. T. stoloniferum, i2oa?b. 



Erect from a creeping base rooting at the nodes, with finely 

 pubescent stems 12-22" high, ovate coarsely deeply crenate leaves 

 2-3 '5" and numerous simple and terminal panicled racemes of small 

 flowers -2" long. Corolla white tinged with purple. 



It occurs in Oudh and Northern Bengal, i. e. both sides of and close to our area. 

 It will probably therefore be found within it. Fl. Jan. -May. 



Sweet-smelling. Leaves finely pubescent beneath, sec. n. 5-6, oblique. Calyx 

 in flower •1-'14", pubescent ; globose in fruit (upper part withering), '08" diam. 



25. AJUGA, L. 



Herbs with whorls 2-more-fld., axillary or in terminal leafy spikes. 

 Calyx 10- or more-nerved, teeth 5 subequal. Corolla-tube often 

 anntilate within, upper lip very short 2-fid lower spreading 3-fid, 

 midlobe usually the largest and notched or 2-fld. Stamens 4, 

 ascending, exserted or included ; anther-cells diverging, distinct or at 

 length confluent. Disc regular, or produced behind. Ovary shortly 

 5-lobed with subequal style lobes. Nutlets obovoid, rugose when dry 

 with the hilum lateral. 



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