90 XCIII LABIATJE. | Leucas. — 
14. LEUCAS, R. Br. 
obed. 
ip; anthers 2-celled. Style with the u aot stigu 
lobe Biada orter than the lower. Nuts dry, smoot angular, — 
btuse. —H érbs or undershrubs. Flowers in axillary false. whorls, : 
«iio c or rarely purplish. l 
nsiderable genus, spread over tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. The 
E y Feci a species is closely allied to, if not identical with, one of the Asiatic 
rather smaller. Corolla white (or blue according to Dallachy), not half | 
as long = as the calyx.—Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 526. | 
i uae d. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; 
Roc hampton, Bowman, O' Skanesy. i 
A few specimens of apparently the same species have been received from the Eastern W 
Archipelago and from Burmah, and the vios e ma ba be specifically distinct from ioh 4 
ommon Pacific met L. dedo tata, Sm. (Stachys decemdentata, Forst.), which | 
however has atch smaller calyxes with shorter te iid 
Var.? petiolaris. Petioles ae er than the calyx, as in L. decemdentata, but 3 
NUNT specimens appea e in an abnormal m$ 2d the calyxes are those 
L. flaccida.—Cape York, M 'Güljeray. i 
TRIBE V. PnosTANTHEREJE. — Stamen s 4, in pairs, a Ei 
anthers, but sometimes one cell of all oe anthers or both c of the — 
rarely nearly smooth, the pericarp father thick. Seeds a Er 
Calyx usually 10- or par lip ei very E ló-nerved. Corolla wi 
‘R. Brow ibn the albumen of FD as “ parcum aut nullum." I E 1 
found it present in in the seeds of a considerable number of species of the different ics 3 
of the w ich ada now examined, sometimes scanty, often op 
alth fi never perhaps so thick as is figured by Labillardiàre. F. Mueller has à bal 
presented the album aa of cutee the e T aged rather thicker than I observed v Ke 
the exact proportion of the vine ryo t albumen may yary in different seeds e 
same plant, siii ps to the vieta arde which they ripened. ; 
