470 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Losiocorys. 



teeth subulate from a broad base. Corolla white, \ in. long ; tube 

 twice as long as the lips. — Leucas Eenii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 878. 



lower Guinea. Angola ; Mossamedes, in gravelly tliickets on the banks of 

 the river Bero, Welwitsch, 5846. Damaraland, Een. 



2. Ij. poggeana. Briquet in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 198. Stem branched, 

 pubescent only on the angles. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, 1 J-2 in. 

 long, acute, narrowed to the base, serrate, green and glabrescent on both 

 surfaces. Whorls axillary, formed of two shortly peduncled globose 

 cymes. Calyx subsessile, nearly ^ in. long when mature ; tube long, 

 glabrescent and strongly ribbed towards the base, inflated and villous 

 above the middle ; teeth 5, subequal, lanceolate-cuspidate, very small. 

 Corolla and stamens unknown. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; Lulua River, Pogge, 1122. 



3. L. abyssinica, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 534. An undershrub, 

 with slender pale woody branches, clothed with short pubescence. 

 Leaves very numerous, sessile or shortly petioled, oblanceolate or rarely 

 obovate, entire or obscurely toothed in the upper half, firm, subglabrous. 

 Whorls very numerous, few-flowered; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, 

 \ in. long ; throat equal ; teeth large, deltoid -cuspidate. Corolla half 

 as long again as the calyx; upper lip J in. long, finely hairy. — A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 201 ; Vatke in Linnsea. xliii. 98 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 122 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 371. Leucas quinque- 

 dentata, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64 (name only;. L. abt/ssinica, 

 Briquet ex Gurke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 136. 



irile Xtand. Eritrea : near the coast in the Shohos district, Hhrenberg ; Habab ; 

 Nakfa, 6000 ft., Hildehrandt, 432; Bogos; Keren, Steudner, 1399! Abyssinia: 

 Provinct; of Wojerat, Petit ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 502 ! 1851 ! 

 British Soinaliland : Serrut Mountains, near Maid, 5800 ft., Hildehrandt, 1422a. 



4. L. stachydiformis, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 534. A branched 

 undershrub, with branchlets densely clothed with short whitish spread- 

 ing hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, ovate, crenate, the lower 1^-2 in. 

 long, pale and densely pubescent beneath, greenish and less pubescent 

 above. Whorls distant, many-flowered ; bracts large, linear, densely 

 hairy. Calyx-tube strongly ribbed, densely hairy, \ in. long ; throat 

 equal ; teeth deltoid, with very large spinous points. Upper corolla-lip 

 J in. long, all densely clothed with white hairs. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 202; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 123; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 370 ; Avetta in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 60. Leucas 

 stachydiformis, Briquet ex Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 136. Ballota 

 stachydiformis, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 202. 



JTlle Iiand. Abyssinia : Gajeh-Merki, 8400 ft., Schimper, 683; Lptho, Schimper, 

 448; Debra Eski, Schimper, 146; Ataba, Steudner, 1411; on mountains near 

 Jenausa, Schimper, 852 ! Province of Wojerat, Petit > Shea ; Cora, Pagazzi ; and 

 without precise locality, Schimper, 936 ! 



