248 LABIATE. [ EBEMOSTACHYS. 



dilated upwards into a broad membranous limb ; teeth 5, eqilal, 

 setaceous. Corolla 2-lipped, tube included ; upper lip erect, hooded, 

 bearded within ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe largest. Stamens 

 didynamous, ascending, the lower pair longer, filaments of upper pair 

 fimbriate or appendaged at the base ; anthers conniving, cells 

 divaricate. Disk equal. Style-lobes equal, or the upper one shorter. 

 Nutlets obovoid triquetrous, truncate, their summit densely hairy. 

 Species 27, in W. Asia. 



E. superba, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Sot. Misc Hi, 381 ; III. 803, t. 

 74 ; F. B. I. iv, 695. 



A robust softly hairy herb, about 2 ft. high. Stem annual, from a large 

 tuberous rootstock, erect, unbranched. Radical leaves petioled, 8-12 in. 

 long, ovate in outline, pinnatisect, segments lobulate ; lobules broad, 

 obtuse ; cauline leaves few, small, pinnatifid. Whorls many-flowered, 

 crowded on a stout woolly spike 6-10 in. long ; floral leaves erect, ovate, 

 acute, concave, enclosing the flowers, deciduous. Calyx woolly, in, 

 long ; mouth truncate, shortly and broadly 5-lobed. Cor ->lla yellow 

 tube included ; upper lip galeate, in long, villous. 



Siwalik range near the Mohand Pass (Boyle, etc.). DISTRIB. : Punjab* 

 near Peshawar (Vicary). An extremely local and very handsome plant- 

 When cultivated in the Saharanpur garden, it used often to make its 

 appearance as an escape on sheltered parts of the lawns. 



18. LEUCAS, K. Br. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 630. 



Herbs or undershrubs, usually woolly or villous. Flowers usually 

 white, in axillary mostly distant whorls. Calyx. 10-nerved, striate ; 

 mouth equal or oblique, equally or unequally 6-10-toothed. Corolla 

 2-lipped ; tube included, annulate or naked within ; upper lip erect, 

 concave, externally villous; lower spreading, 3-fid., midlobe very 

 large. Stamens didynamous, the lower pair longer, filaments ascend- 

 ing; anthers conniving, the cells divaricate, at length confluent, 

 Disk entire or lobed, equal or glandular in front. Ovary 4 -partite ; 

 style subulate at the apex, the posterior lobe obsolete. Nutlets 4, 

 ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse, dry, basal scar small. Species about 100, 

 chiefly in Asia and Africa. 



Calyx-mouth oblique : 



Mouth of calyx split above, much produced 

 below 1. L. urticce folia. 



Mouth of calyx projecting forward above : 

 Calyx-teeth very short: 



