484 cii. LABiAT/E (baker). [Leitcas. 



39. Li. lamioides. Baker. A perennial herb, with stems clothed 

 with short spreading hairs. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, deeply crenate, 

 cuneate and entire at the base, thin, slightly hairy, the lower 2-3 in. 

 long. Whorls distant, dense, many -flowered ; bracts small. Calyx 

 slightly hairy, \-\ in. long ; throat oblique ; lower lip produced ; teeth 

 deltoid-cuspidate. Upper lip of the corolla J in. long, densely hairy. 



Mozaxnb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; without pre(!i8e locality, 

 Buchanan, 482 ! 



40. L. Pleckii, Gurke in Engl. Jahrh. xxii. 140. Stem erect, 

 pubescent, simple or slightly branched. Leaves sessile or subsessile, 

 linear-lanceolate, 2 in. long, \-^ in. broad, subacute, irregularly serrate, 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Whorls few-flowered ; bracts subulate, 

 hairy, shorter than the calyx. Fruit-calyx J in. long ; throat oblique ; 

 teeth all subulate, 



Kower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaralaud, Fleck, 733. 

 Also in Namaqualand, south of the Tropic. 



41. L. Bakeriy Hiern in Cat, Afr. PL Welw. i. 877. A branched 

 erect annual, with slender shortly hairy stems. Leaves distant, sessile, 

 linear, subentire, thinly hairy on both sides, 1-2 in. long. Whorls 

 distant, many-flowered ; bracts linear, shorter than the calyx, densely 

 and rigidly ciliate. Calyx very hairy, J in. long ; throat oblique ; lower 

 side produced ; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, pungent, yV iu. long. Corolla 

 not seen. 



X.ower Guinea. Angola : Welwitsch, 3232 ! 5512 ! 5513 ! 



42. I«. stricta, Baker. A much-branched erect annual, with long 

 straight hairy slender stems. Leaves distant, sessile, linear or lanceo- 

 late, subentire or inciso-crenate, 2-4 in. long, thinly hairy on both sides. 

 Whorls few, distant, many-flowered ; bracts large, linear, rigidly and 

 densely ciliate. Calyx-tube densely hairy, \ in. long ; throat oblique ; 

 lower side much produced ; teeth deltoid, with large spinous cusps. Lips 

 of corolla \ in. long; upper densely hairy. — L. glabrata, Britten in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 87, not of R. Br. 



Mozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; opposite Sena, 

 Kirk ! Shiramba, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between the Songwe 

 River and Karon^M, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte, 5 ! Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 

 3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Mlanje, Whyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 

 706! 



43. L. villosa, Gilrke in Engl, Jahrh. xxii. 137. Stem erect, 

 branched, villous. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 2-2J in. long, \-\ in. 

 broad, obtuse, narrowed to the base, crenate upwards, pubcoriaceous, 

 covered with long hairs on both surfaces. Whorls many-flowered ; 

 bracts linear-subulate, above J in. long. Calyx hairy, § in. long when 

 in fruit ; throat very oblique, produced on the lower side; 3 upper teeth 



