Le/tcas.] cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 683 



10. Zi. pilosa, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 62, Lab. 609, and in 

 DC Prodr. xii. 526 (excl. var. /3) ; branches very slender with appressed 

 deflexed and long spreading hairs, leaves petioled membranous ovate acumi- 

 nate coarsely serrate sparsely hairy on both surfaces, upper sessile, whorls 

 fevv-n 1., calyx % in. straight hispid, teeth very short, tips acicular. Wall. 

 Cat. 2058. 



BURMA; banks of the Ira waddi, Wallich. 



Branches long, leaves and whorls very distant. Leaves 3 by 1 J in. ; petiole ^ in. 

 Described from a single specimen; the long spreading hairs are quite uulike those of 

 any other species in this section. 



ft WJiorls l-2-fld. 



11. Xi. procumbens, Desf. in Mem. Mus. xi. 7, t. 3 ; procumbent, 

 nearly glabrous, branches very long and slender, leaves petioled membra- 

 nous elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acute subserrate, flowers 1-3 pedicelled, 

 bracts minute, calyx ^-^ in. straight glabrous, teeth short lanceolate acumi- 

 nate. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 62, Lab. 610, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xii. 527, in part. L. biflora, Wall. Cat. 2063, in part. Phlomis biflora, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 12, in part. 



BENGAL PLAINS ; Roxburgh, &c. CANARA ; Ritchie, &c. MYSOBE ; Heyne, 

 &c. 



Branches from a woody rootstock, 2-3 ft. ; angles and tips puberulous. Leaves 

 i~H in., base acute; petiole g | in. Calyx with the pedicel sometimes half as long 

 as the tube. 



**** Perennial rooted. Calyx-teeth i- the length of the tube. 



12. Ii. biflora, Br. Prodr. 504; procumbent, pubescent, branches 

 long slender, leaves petioled ovate elliptic or oblong coarsely serrate or 

 crenate, flowers 1-2 subsessile, bracts minute, calyx - in, straight hispid, 

 teeth subulate \-\ the length of the tube. Wall. Cat. 2529 ; Benth. in 

 Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 62, Lab. 610, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 527 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 866 (bad); G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PL 153; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211. / 

 L. procumbens, Thwaites Enum. 240. Phlomis biflora, Vahl Symb. iii. 77 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 12. Nepeta indica, Burm. Fl. Ind. 126, and Thes. Zeyl. 

 t. 63, f. 1. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, in dry places from the Concan southward. CEYLON j 

 from the sea to 8000 ft., Thwaites. 



Habit and foliage of L. procumbens, distinguished by its pubescence and long 

 calyx-teeth, and native country. 



13. Zi. marrubioides, Desf. in Mem. Mus. xi. 6, t. 3, f . 1 ; stem 

 very stout, leaves sessile or shortly petioled thick ovate rounded or broadly 

 ovate-cordate crenate velvety above densely white woolly beneath, whorls 

 densely many-fld., calyx woolly, teeth subulate ^-| as long as the tube. 

 Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 61, Lab. 611, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 528; 

 Thwaites Enum. 240. 



WEST DECCAN PENINSULA, on the Ghats from the Concan to Travancore. 

 CEYLON, common. 



Stem 1-2 ft., simple or sparingly branched, densely white-tomentose with reflexed 

 or spreading hairs. Leaves 1-2 in. long and b.road, or more ovate, rarely acute, 

 often rugose above, white beneath ; petiole -| in., stout. Whorls very dense and 

 woolly or silky; bracts villous, often equalling the calyx-tube. Calyx-teeth very 

 variable in length. 



