Leucaa.'] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 687 



rate pubescent above tomentose beneath, whorls subsolitary and terminal 

 many- and dense-fid., calyx ^-f in. tubular narrowed below villous, teeth 

 slender erect ciliate longer than the villi of the mouth, corolla large. Wight 

 Ic. t. 338. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight. Pulney and Balaramgan Hills (Mysore), 

 Beddome. 



A more slender plant than L. lamiifolia, apparently annual, more sparsely hairy, 

 with narrower leaves, smaller heads, longer calyx and larger corolla. 



VAE. oblongifolia ; shorter, stem woody below, leaves smaller l$-2 in. more 

 oblong and villous above. Courtallam, Wight. 



VAE. sericostoma ; branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves silkily villous, 

 calyx-teeth shorter than the long white silky hairs of the mouth. Anaraallay Hills, 

 jBeddome. 



VAE. angustifolia ; tall, branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves 2-3 by \ in. 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse, calyx-teeth as long as two-thirds of the tube. Sisparah, 

 Wight ; Palghat high range, Beddome. 



26. Xi. hirta, Spreng. Syst. ii. 743 ; villously hirsute or scabrid, stem 

 woody below, leaves 1-2 in. sessile or shortly petioled elliptic or linear 

 oblong obtuse obscurely toothed, whorls solitary terminal, bracts as long as 

 the scabrid turbinate calyx, calyx-teeth recurved equalling or shorter than 

 the copious villi of the mouth. Benth. Lab. 613, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 

 530. L. helianthemifolia, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2053, non Desf. L. rufescens, Sent/i. in Wall. Cat. 2053. Phlomis hirta, 

 Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 264. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bangalore, Rottler ; Nilghiri, Mysore and Shevaghery 

 Hills, Wight. 



Probably a dry country or locality form of L. vestita, much smaller, more scabridly 

 hirsute or villous, with very much smaller leaves and calyces and longer villi of the 

 mouth than the latter. The hairs on the branches are deflexed or spreading, rarely 

 appressed. 



VAE. prostrata; smaller, more slender, branches prostrate or ascending, leaves 

 |-1 in. broadly ovate often petioled, villi of calyx-mouth shorter. Anamallay and 

 Nilghiri Hills, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



VAE. ? Beddomei ; erect, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves 2-2^ in. 

 linear-oblong subsilkily villous on both surfaces, whorls in several axils, calyx J in., 

 teeth very small recurved triangular subulate spinescent longer than the villi of the 

 mouth. Charnbra Peek, Wynaad, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. 



27. I. ciliata, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 61, Lab. 614, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 530; stem and branches hirsute with spreading and 

 deflexed hairs, leaves petioled 2-4 in. ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate 

 pubescent or glabrate, whorls globose large many- and dense-fld. terminal 

 and axillary, bracts as long as the calyx hirsute, calyx -f in. tubular 

 scabrid or villous, teeth long slender patent or recurved, mouth wide naked 

 or ciliate. Wall. Cat. 2046 ; Dalz. ty Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich-, Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft., J. D. H. ; 

 Bhotan, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. ; Wallich, &c. DECCAN PENIN- 

 SULA ; on the Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore. 



A tall annual? 1-3 ft. , stem branched, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves membra- 

 nous, narrowed at the base; petiole -| in. Whorls 1-1^ in. diain., criuite from the 

 slender long bracts and calyx-teeth. C ilyx very variable in size and hairiness, teeth 

 llexuous, ciliate, in small forms more than half as long as the tube. Corolla-tube 

 included. Nutlets ^-^ in., oblong, smooth. 



* Sect. [. --y Jji'acts usually as long as the calyx or 



iic /u^ate ubconic or tubular, mouth very oblique, the 



