482 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Leitcos. 



long, cuneate at the base, deeply crenate, thinly clothed with soft white 

 hairs above, densely so beneath. Whorls dense, many-flowered, pro- 

 duced from the axils of reduced upper leaves; bracts minute or obsolete. 

 Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, -J in. long, densely clothed with white hairs ; 

 throat oblique ; lower lip produced, its teeth deltoid. Corolla densely 

 villous, twice as long as the calyx-tube. 



Wile Ziand. British East Africa : Kikuyu ; Kidung Valley, 6000 ft., Scotf- 

 miiot, 6585 ! 



31. Ij. glabrata, R. Br. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 524. A branched 

 erect perennial herb, with slender subglabrous stems. Leaves petioled, 

 ovate, acute, deeply crenate, thin, nearly glabrous, the lower 2-3 in. 

 long. Whorls distant, few-flowered ; bracts minute. Calyx narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous or slightly hairy, J in. long; throat oblique; 

 lower lip produced ; teeth deltoid, with very large cusps. Corolla-tube 

 slightly exserted ; 'upper lip obovate -cuneate, J in. long, densely villous. 

 —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 199 ; Jaub. k Spach, 111. PI. Orient, t. 

 385; Vatke in Oester. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 95; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 123 ; Zarb, Cat. Spec. Bot. Pfund, 33 ; Britten in Gregory, 

 Great Rift Valley, 396 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 370. L. 

 (jaleopsidea, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 199. 



Nile Ziand. Dalak Island, Ehrenberff. Eritrea: Bogos; Keren, Steudner, 

 1417! Shohos Country, Ehrenberff, Pfund. Abyssinia: Togodele, Ehrenherg I 

 Tigro ; near Jclajeranne, Schimper, 76-1 ! Tacazze Valley, Quartin-Dillon • and 

 without precise locality, Schimper, 208! 388! British East Africa : Taita ; Maungu 

 Mountiiin, 2000 ft., Johnston ! Kamasia, Gregory. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Usaramo, Stuhlmann ! 



Also Natal, Delagoa Bay, and Arabia. 



32. Ii. thymoides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 226. A peren- 

 nial herb, with slender pubescent branches. Leaves petioled, ovate, 

 -J-J in. long, crenate, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Whorls few, 

 few-flowered, subtended by small leaves ; pedicels very short ; bracts 

 minute, subulate. Calyx pilose, J in. long; tube funnel-shnped, 10- 

 ribbed ; limb oblique, produced on the lower side; teeth small, lanceo- 

 late. Corolla J-| in. long; tube cylindrical: upper lip lingulate, 

 densely pilose, as long as the tube; lower smaller, 3-lobed. Stamens 

 not exserted from the upper lip. 



irile Ziand. I»ritish Somaliland : without precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 



33. L. pratensis, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 97. A perennial herb, 

 with long slender thinly hairy stems. Leaves small, thin, petioled, 

 ovate, crenate, hairy on both sides. Whorls few, few-flowered, the lower 

 very distant, the upper approximate and their leaves reduced ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx hairy, | in. long; lower side produced ; teeth deltoid- 

 cuspidate. Upper lip of corolla nearly as long as the calyx, densely 

 villous. 



Wrile Xiand. British Jlast Africa: Taita ; Ndara, Hildehrandt, 2410! 



