494 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Leonotis. 



10. L. Schinzii, Giirke in Engl. Jahrh. xxii. 143. Stems branched, 

 glabrous or pubescent. Leaves petioled, lanceolate, 1^-- ^^- lo^^g* acute, 

 deeply seriate, glabrous on both surfaces, the veins raised beneatli. 

 Bracts subulate, spinous. Calyx about J in. long, entirely glabrous or 

 pubescent upwards ; teeih H, deltoid, rigid, spinous, the upper longest. 

 Corolla orange-yellow. 



iMOvrer Guinea. Grermmi South- A-est Africa : Hereroland ; near Knruip.:mas, 

 Fleck, 568 ; Great Namaqualand ; Horaeib, Schinz, 40. 



39. OTOSTEGIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. 1213. 



Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, lO-ribbed ; limb scarious, bilabiate ; upper 

 lip small, ovate ; lower much broader, orbicular-cuneate, subentire or 

 crenate. Corolla-tube included, with a ring of hairs inside; limb 

 bilabiate ; upper lip arcuate, densely hairy outside ; lower deflexed, 

 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate ; lower pair the longest ; 

 anther-cells divaricate. Disk equal. Style bifid at the apex ; nucules 

 ovoid, obtut>e. — Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves sessile or petioled, 

 entire or crenate. Flowers few or many in laxly disposed leafy whorls 

 bracts herbaceous or spinous. 



Species about 10, the others inhabiting Arabia, North India and the Orient. 



Leaves subsessile, entire. 



Bracts with a pungent point . . . . .1.0. integrifolia. 



Bracts witiiout a pungent point . . . . 2. O. Steudneri. 



Leaves subsessile, crenate . . . . . . 3. O. tomento-sa. 



Leaves distinctly petioled, crenate. 



Lower lip of calyx obscurely crenate . . . . 4. O. scariosa. 



Lower lip of calyx distinctly crenate. 



Whorls many-flowered . . . . . . 5. O. repanda. 



Whorls 2-flowered . . . . . . 6. O. modesta. 



1. O. integrifolia, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 522. A much-branched 

 shrub, with slender woody branches, clothed with fine white tomentum ; 

 nodes bearing a couple of large spreading spines from each side. Leaves 

 nearly sessile, lanceolate, entire, 1-2 in. long, cuneate at the base, clothed 

 on both sides with white tomentum. Whorls few or many, 5-6-flowered ; 

 bracts rigid, tricuspidate. Calyx sessile ; tube \ in. long, densely 

 pubescent, with 10 raised ribs; upper lip small, oblong, pointed, entire; 

 lower orbicular-cuneate, | in. broad, faintly crenate. Corolla reaching 

 to the tip of the lower lip.— A Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 197; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 309. Moluccella integrifolia, R. Br. in Salt, 

 Abyss. Append. 64. 



wile Xiand. Eritrea ; Arrot Valley, 4200 ft., Schweivfurth Sf Riva, 675 ! 

 environs of Acrur, 6100 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1134! Abyssinia. : Tigre ; hills 

 near Dungem Go, in the Memsach district, Schimper, 228 ! Samen ; Ataba, Steudner, 

 1381! Shire Province, Petit ! wn^ without precise locality, Schimper, ISQl 1850! 

 Quartin- Dillon ^ Petit, 11 ! 



