ts.~\ cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) G91 



Cat. Bomb. PI. 153; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. JF7. 211. L. lavandulrefolia, 

 Rees Cyclop. Phlomis linifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 260. P. zeylanica, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 9 ; Jacq. Ic. PL Rar. i. 11, t. 111. Leonurus indicus, 

 Burnt. FL Ind. 127 .Rumph. Herb. Ami. vi. t. 16, f. 1. 



PLAINS of INDIA ; from Assam and Bengal and Silhet to Singapore. In the 

 DECCAN; from the Concan to Travaucore (not seen from the W. or N.W. Provinces 

 of India, nor from Ceylon). DISTRIB. Mauritius, Malay Islands. 



Stem 2-3 ft., usually stout and much branched above. Leaves rarely | in. broad; 

 petiole 0-^ in. Whorls towards the ends of the branches, ^-| in. diain.; bracts 

 setaceous. Calyx pale below, not striate above, toothing variable, sometimes 

 spinescent. 



VAR. decipiens ; hispidly hairy, bracts very many ciliate, tips spinescent, calyx 

 larger hirsute or pubescent, teeth longer spinous, uppermost pungent. L. aspera, 

 PL Ind. Or. Hohenaclc. n. 1234. South Deccan; Pycarrah, Wight-, Nilghiris, 

 HohenacJcer. Confounded with L. aspera in various collections, with which it agrees 

 in hairiness. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



L. DIMIDIATA, Spreng. Syst. ii. 743; stem hairy, leaves oblong-lanceolate sub- 

 serrate hirsute, whorls dimidiate, calyx oblong hairy above, teeth 10 subulate subpun- 

 gent. East Indies. Probably L. aspera, to which belongs the specimen referred 

 to this species by Beutharn in his " Labiatarum Gen. & Sp.," and which is entirely 

 different from L. diffusa. 



46. LEONOTIS, Br. 



Herbs or shrubs. Whorls axillary, densely many-fld. ; bracteoles many, 

 slender; flowers scarlet or yellow. Calyx 10-nerved, often incurved, mouth 

 oblique ; teeth 8-10, rigid, upper largest. Corolla-tube exserted ; upper 

 lip long, concave, crown villous ; lower very small, spreading, concave, 

 midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 

 Disk equal. Style subulate, upper lobe very short. Nutlets oblong or 

 ovoid, .triquetrous, obtuse or truncate, glabrous. Species 12, African, one 

 also Indian. 



Xi. nepet no folia, Br. Prodr. 504 ; herbaceous, leaves membranous 

 ovate crenate, bracts spinescent, calyx ^-1 in., upper lip. prominent rigid 

 spinescent, lower with three erect or recurved spinescent teeth. Benth. in 

 Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 59, Lab. 618, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 535; Wall. Cat. 

 2042 ; &r$p$Cat. Bomb. PL 153 ; Dalz. fy Gils. Bomb. FL 211 ; Wight 

 III. ii. t. 176' 5?X f. 11, and Ic, t. 867; Bot.'Reg. t. 281 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3700. 

 Phlomis nepeta3tolia, Linn.\ Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 8. Leonurus globosus, 

 Moench Meth. 400. 



Throughoxit hotter India, from the Panjab to Travancore and Singapore, but not 

 very common ; cultivated and naturalized, doubtfully indigenous. CEYLON ; in the 

 drier parts. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa and America. 



A tall annual, 4-6 ft. ; stem as thick as the finger, 4-angled with concave faces, 

 puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in. ; floral lanceolate, deflexed"; petiole 1-3 in., winged 

 above, slender. Whorls distant, globose, 2-3 in. diam., squarrose ; bracts slender, 

 linear, deflexed. Calyx f in. long, ribbed and reticulate, pubescent or villous, 

 tubular, incurved, teeth spiuescent, upper ^ in. long ; throat glabrous. Corolla, 

 orange-red, 1 in. long ; tube slender, exserted, villous like the upper lip, lower lip 

 minute. Nutlets linear-oblong, widening upwards, truncate. 



47. PHIiOXKXS, 



Herbs or shrubs. Whorls axillary, dense-fid. ; bracteoles many, ovate 



