Lamktm.} cii. labiat^e (baker). 469 



usually cordate, crenate or inciso-crenate. Whorls axillary or capi- 

 tate. 



Species 40, concentrated in the North Temperate zone of the Old World, 



1. Ii. amplexicaule, Linn. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 508. An 

 annual, much branched at the crown of the root, with erect stems about 

 ^ ft. long. Leaves in distant pairs ; lower long petioled, cordate-ovate, 

 small, deeply crenate ; floral leaves sessile, amplexicaul. Flowers con- 

 fined to the axils of the upper sessile leaves, sometimes small and 

 cleistogamous. Calyx densely hairy, nearly \ in. long; teeth lanceolate- 

 subulate, rather longer than the tube. Corolla red, J in. long ; tube 

 slender, much longer than the calyx. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 369. 



Xrile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, in cultivated fields, 8000- 

 9000 ft., Schimper, 1153, and without precise locality, Schimper, 292 ! Roth ! 



Also in Europe, West Asia, North Africa, and Canary Islands. 



34. LASIOCOBYS, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 

 Plant, ii. 1213. 



Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 10-nerved ; teeth 5, equal, or the lower 

 longer. Corolla-tube not longer than the calyx, furnished with a ring 

 of hairs inside ; limb bilabiate ; upper lip entire, deeply concave ; lower 

 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate; anthers with 2 divaricate 

 cells. Disk produced on the lower side. Style bifid ; upper fork shorter 

 or abortive. Nucules ovoid-triquetrous, obtuse. — Undershrubs or herbs. 

 Leaves sessile or petioled, varying f lom ovate to linear, crenate or entire. 

 Whorls axillary, many-flowered ; bracts small or large. Habit of 

 Leucas^ from which it difiers by its 5-toothed calyx. 



Species 9, the others in Arabia, Socotra, and South Africa. Briquet, Giirke, and 

 Hiern place Lasiocorys as a section of Leucas, from which it differs by the teeth of 

 the calyx being not more than five. 



Calyx-teeth subulate from a broad base . . 1. L. Eenii. 



Calyx-teeth lanceolate 2. L. poggeana. 



Calyx-teeth deltoid. 



Throat of calyx-tube not oblique. 



Leaves oblanceolate . . . . . . 3. i. ahyssinica. 



Leaves ovate 4. i. stachydiformis. 



Throat of calyx-tube ohlique. 



Leaves oblanceolate 5. Z. argyrophylla. 



Leaves ovate . . . . . . . 6. Z. arabica. 



1. Ij. Eenii, Baker. Annual. Stems erect, pubescent, 2-3 ft. 

 long, slightly branched. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 

 obtuse, cuneate at the base, crenate, pubescent. Flowers in globose 

 axillary or terminal whorls, subsessile ; bracts subulate, strongly ciliate, 

 \-\ in. long. Calyx J in. long, pubescent ; tube oblong-campauulate ; 



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