Leucas.] cii. labiate (baker). 475 



1 . L. cephalantha. Baker. A perennial herb, with a very slender 

 finely hairy stem 1 ft. long. Leaves firm, sessile, hairy, entire, linear 

 with revolute edges, 1-1 J in, long. Whorl solitary, terminal, many- 

 flowered ; bracts large, linear, rigidly ciliate. Calyx hairy, \ in. long; 

 throat not oblique ; teeth small, deltoid. Upper corolla-lip \ in. long, 

 densely villous. 



ncozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Lower Plateau north of Lake Nyasa, 

 Thomson ! 



2. L, Stormsii, Gilrke in Engl. Jahrh. xxii. 140. Stem simple 

 or slightly branched, pubescent. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, lJ-2 in. 

 long, \-^ in. broad, acute or acuminate, serrate upwards, membranous, 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Whorls many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, 

 pubescent, as long as or shorter than the calyx. Fruit-calyx pubescent, 

 J in. long ; throat not oblique ; teeth 10, lanceolate-subulate. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Karema on Lake Tanganyika, Storms, 4. 



3. Ij. menthsefolia. Baker. A perennial herb, with densely pilose 

 spreading stems. Leaves nearly sessile, ovate, the largest 1 in. long, 

 obtuse, crenate, thick, thinly pilose on the upper surface, densely pilose 

 and with the main veins raised beneath. Whorls 1-3, distant, many- 

 flowered ; bracts large, linear, densely ciliate. Calyx pubescent, ^ in. 

 long ; throat not oblique ; teeth minute. Upper lip of corolla \ in. 

 long, densely villous. Stamens included. 



nXozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwambo, south of Lake 

 Tanganyika, 5250 ft,, JSfutt ! 



4. L. myriantha, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1808, 163. A peren- 

 nial herb. Stems erect, pubescent, simple or forked. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, ovate, 1-1^ in. long, entire, broadly rounded at the base, 

 green and thinly pilose on both surfaces, densely dotted with black 

 glands beneath. Whorls very numerous, many-flowered, contiguous, 

 forming a long cylindrical panicle ; lower primary bracts large, upper 



