682 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Leucas. 



SOUTH DECCAN; Ptilney Hills, WigU ; Anamallay and Balarangar Hills, 

 Beddome. DISTEIB. China. 



Somewhat shrubby, sometimes only hoary. Leaves l-2 in., membranous or 

 coriaceous, upper sessile ; , petiole - in. Calyx pedicelled ; bracts setaceous. 

 Calyx of the section Astrodon, but the mouth not villous, and the bracts are 

 minute. 



VAR. lanata densely clothed with woolly tomentum, calyx-teeth not awned. 

 Vellyengry Hill, Wight. && densely clothed as L. lanata. 



7. Xi. montana, Spreng. Syst. ii. 742 ; shrubby, all over densely softly 

 woolly or tomentose, leaves thick shortly petioled ovate or ovate-rotundate 

 obtuse crenate, whorls many-fid., calyx - in. subcylindric, teeth minute 

 erect. Wall. Cat. 2056; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 61, Lab. 607, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 525. ? L. Hamiltoniana, Benth. II. c. ; Wall. Cat. 

 2525. Phlomis 'montana, Both Nov. Sp. 263 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 8. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne, Wight. Pulney Hills and Bellary, Beddome. 

 BEHAB ; Monghir, Hamilton ; on Parusnath, alt. 4,5000 ft., Clarke. 



Lower branches woody, upper 4-gonous, with deflexed hairs. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 velvety; petiole 0-J in. Calyx subsessile ; bracts minute. I doubt if it is possible 

 to determine by descriptions what Roth's Phlomis montana was. In Rottler's Her- 

 barium there is under this name a mixture of several things. I doubt the species 

 being distinct from L. mollissima. L. Samiltoniana, Benth., is I think referable 

 here. 



VAR. Wightii; calyx ^ in. long. L. montana, Herb. Wt. propr. 



8. Zi. mollissima, Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 62, and Cat. 2054 ; slender, 

 much branched, hoar} 7 -tomentose, leaves sessile or shortly petioled ovate- 

 lanceolate or ovate acute rarely obtuse serrate, calyx 5^ in. tomentose or 

 woolly cvlindric straight, teeth very short usually slender. Benth. Lab. 

 607, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 525. L. pilosa, var. pubescens, Benth. in Wall. 

 and DC. II. c. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallicli ; Kumaon, Falconer, &c. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. The CONCAN, Stocks, &c. CENTRAL INDIA ; 

 Chota Nagpore, Clarke. CEYLON; N. of the island, Gardner. DISTRIB. China. 



More slender than L. montana, and never so densely woolly, with more acute 

 calyx-teeth; but these are sometimes very short and broad. 



Bentham describes the flower as " white ? but oftener purple." 



VAR. scalerula ; more glabrous, calyx hispid. Central India and Khasia Mts., 

 Clarice. 



VAR. angustifolia ; puberulous, very slender, leaves membranous linear-lanceolate 

 subentire. L. augustifolia, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 62 ; Cat. 2064 ; Benth. in DC. I. c. 

 527. Nepal, Wallich. 



VAR. strigosa; branches very slender and leaves above strigosely pubescent, 

 leaves sessile elliptic- or linear- lanceolate subacute subserrate tomentose beneath, 

 whorls few-fld. L. strigosa, Benth. in Wall. I. c., Lab. 608, and in DC. I. c. 

 526; Wall. Cat. 2059. Burma; at Prome, Wallich. Rangoon, M'Clelland. 



9. Xi. pyata, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 61, Lab. 607, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xii. 525 ; branches long slender tomentose, leaves large sessile broadly 

 ovate-cordate subcrenate, tip rounded, pubescent above, woolly beneath, 

 whorls many-fid., bracts minute, calyx | in. straight villous, teeth minute, 

 tips acicular. Wall. Cat. 2057. 



BURMA ; banks of the Irawaddi, Wallich. 



This may be another form of L. mollissima, but is a very different-looking 

 plant. 



Branches 3 ft., 4-angled ; hairs deflexed. Leaves 3 by 2 in., very obscurely 

 crenate. Described from a single specimen. 



