Lasiocorf/s.] cii. labiat/e (baker). 471 



5. L. argyrophylla, Vatke in Oester. hot. Zeitschr. 187;"), 90. An 

 undershrub, with simple branchlets l2-^ ft. long. Leaves subsessile, 

 oblanceolate, subobtuse, entire or obscurely toothed towards the obtuse 

 apex, 1|- in. long, \ in. broad, silky on both sides. Whorls many, 

 2-10-fiowered ; bracts small. Calyx funnel-shaped, \ in. long; throat 

 oblique, produced on the lower side ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla 

 as in L. ahyssinica. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl, Trop. Afr. 371. Leiucas aryy- 

 rophylla^ Briquet ex Giirke in Engl. Jabrb. xxii. 135. L. hyssopifoUa, 

 Franch. Sert. Somal. 57. L. franchetiana, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxii. 135. 



M-lle I.and. Somalilaud : Ahl Mountains, at Yafir, 6000 ft., Hildehrandt, 852 ; 

 Boobi, James Sf Thrupp ! and without precise locality, Revoil. 



6. L. arabica, Jaub. et Spach, Illust. PI. Orient, iv. 126, t. 383. 

 A tall branched perennial herb, with slender obscurely hairy stems. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, deeply crenate, finely pubescent, 

 1-2 in. long. Whorls many-flowered, in the axils of large leaves all 

 down the stem ; bracts large, subulate. Calyx finely hairy, \-^ in. 

 long ; tube funnel-shaped ; throat oblique ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, J 

 the length of the tube. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; upper lip 

 Ungulate, as long as the tube, finely hairy outside. Stamens shorter 

 than the lips. — L. royleoides, Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 98. Ballota roy- 

 leoides, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 520. Leucas royleoides, Giirke in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxii. 136. 



Wile Xiand. British Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, 3400 ft., Eildehrandt, 1422. 

 Also in Arabia. 



35. ACROTOME, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 



1206. 



Calyx accrescent, between tubular and campanulate, lO-ribbed ; 

 throat oblique ; teeth 5-10. Corolla-tube as long as or longer than the 

 lip ; limb bilabiate ; upper lip small, concave, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, included in the corolla-tube ; lower pair longest ; 

 anthers confluent, 1 -celled. Disk equal. Style bearded below the 

 apex, entire or emarginate. Nucules acutely triquetrous, truncate at 

 the apex. — Perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire or serinite, 

 those subtending the whorls like the others. Flowers small, whitiijh. 



Species 4, the others in South Africa. 



1. A. Belckiiy Giirke in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 549. Stem 

 erect, branched, pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 in. long, sub- 

 acute, narrowed to a short petiole, deeply serrate, pubescent on both 

 surfaces. Whorls few-flowered ; bracts subuhite, J in. long. Calyx 

 pubescent, finally \ in. long ; teeth 8, deltoid, acuminate. 



Ziower Guinea. Gerraau South-west Africa : Hertroland ; Oiy'xiaxnh'x, Belck, 

 40. 



