478 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Leucas. 



14. L. altissima, E7igl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 208. A perennial 

 herb, 3-4 ft. high, with stems densely clothed with soft white hairs. 

 Leaves small, sessile, oblong, subentire, densely hairy on both sides. 

 Whorls very numerous, many-flowered, the upper approximate ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx campanulate, J in. long, densely clothed with soft white 

 spreading hairs; throat not oblique; teeth 10, deltoid, the alternate 

 ones smaller. Corolla-lip small ; upper densely villous. — Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 878. 



Xower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 5484! Humpata, Johnston! 

 Cunene River, Johnston ! German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Otyimbingue, 

 Marloth, 1410 ! 



15. L. inflata, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 524. A branched erect 

 perennial herb, woody at the base, with stems densely clothed with short 

 soft white hairs. Leaves nearly sessile, suborbicular, crenate at the apex, 

 J-1 in. long, softly hairy on both sides. Whorls very numerous, 6-10- 

 flowered, many of the upper approximate and with reduced leaves ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx campanulate, inflated, \ in. long, densely villous ; throat 

 not oblique ; teeth deltoid, not cuspidate. Corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx ; upper lip densely villous at the tip. — Schweinf. & Volk., Liste 

 PI. Somalis, 12. 



Wile Iiand. Nubia : Coast-land, 3000-4000 ft.. Bent ! near Suakin, at Gebel 

 Uaratab, Schioeinfurth, 141 ! at Hor Tamanib, 300 ft,, Lord! Singat, Schweinfurthj 

 283! Somaliland : Salul River, Ghika. 



Also in Arabia. 



16. Is. Jamesii, Baker in Keiv Bulletin, 1895, 225. A perennial, 

 with woody obscurely tomentose stems. Leaves shortly petioled, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, subentire, cuneate at the base, subglabrous above, thinly 

 pubescent beneath. Whorls many, many-flowered ; bracts minute. 

 Calyx funnel-shaped, thinly hairy, J in. long, deeply 10-ribbed ; teeth 

 minute. Upper lip of the corolla short, densely villous. 



xrile Iiand. Sonialiland : Zafarag, James Sf Thrupp ! and without precise 

 locality, Miss Edith Cole ! Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 



17. L, milanjiana, Gurke in Engl. Jahrh. xxii. 141. A perennial 

 herb, with slender shortly hairy stems. Leaves distant, small, sessile, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or crenate, slightly hairy, narrowed 

 to the base. Whorls few, distant, many-flowered ; bracts minute. Calyx 

 hairy, funnel-shaped, \ in. long, finely ribbed; throat subequal ; teeth 

 all minute. Corolla-lip J in. long, densely villous. 



IVIozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Makua Country, on the Namuli Hills, 

 Last ! Heira, Braga, 7, 109. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; North Nyasaland 

 and Upper Loaugw a River, at Fort Young, Nicholson ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 23 ! 

 25 ! Manganja Hills Meller ! Ndirandi Mountain, near Blantyre, Scott-Elliot, 8578 ! 

 Plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., 

 Whyte ! Mount Mlanje, Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 537 1 



