LEUCAS.] LABIATE. 251 



much produced forwards, very acute ; the other teeth minute, distant, 

 erect. Corolla white, less than in. long ; tube in., annulate within ; 

 upper lip in. long, white-woolly, lower lip in. long. Nutlets % in., 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, brown when ripe. 



Dehra Dun, in cultivated ground. DISTRIB. Plains of India from Assam 

 and Bengal, southwards to the Konkan, Deccan and Cravancore, extend- 

 ing to^ Mauritius and the Malay Islands. Roxburgh mentions that this 

 plant is used by the Brahmins to decorate their idols. 



5. L. Cephalotes, Spreng. Syst. ii, 743 ; F. B. I. iv, 6K9 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Collett Fl Siml. 405 ; Prain Beng. PI. 856 ; Coolie Fl. Bomb, ii, 466: 

 Phlomis Cephalotes, Keen, ex Roxb.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 70. Vern. Dhurpi sag. 



A pubescent or scaberulous annual, 1-3 ft. high, stems and branches obtu- 

 sely angled, clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves 1^-4 in. long, ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, crenate-serrate, membranous, pubescent, 

 tapering to the base, petioles in. Flowers sessile, in large dense globose 

 terminal whorls 1-2 in. in diam., floral leaves similar to the cauline ; 

 bracts -| in imbricate, leaf-like, acute and awned, green, thin, reticu- 

 lately veined, ciliate. Calyx tubular, slightly curved, f-f in. long, 

 lower half glabrous, upper half pubescent outside and within, mouth 

 oblique ; teeth minute, subequal, narrowly triangular-subulate. Corolla 

 | in. long, tube annulate within ; upper lip in. long, white-woolly ; 

 lower lip longer, its midlobe truncate. Nutlets % in. long, obovoid- 

 oblong, smooth, brown. 



A common weed in cultivated ground over the greater portion of the area. 

 DISTRIB. Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 6.000 ft., and south- 

 wards throughout India, but not in Ceylon. It is found in Afghanistan. 



6. L. nutans, Spreng. Syst. ii, 743; F.B.I, iv, 688} Prain Beng. PL 

 856 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 466. 



A small straggliDg diffusely branched annual, 2-12 in. high ; stems and 

 branches 4-angled, laxly hairy. Leaves sessile or shortly stalked, 1-2 in 

 Jong, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, subserrate Flowers sessile 

 or nearly so, in terminal and axillary many-flowered whorls about 

 | in. in diam.; bracts - in., leaf-like, slender, lanceolate, acute and 

 bristle-tipped, veined, ciliate. Calyx (in fruit) j{ in. long, falcately 

 decurved, strongly ribbed, hispid, tube hairy within, mouth oblique, 

 the internal villi shorter than the teeth ; teeth 10, the uppermost one 

 the largest, the rest subequal and about T \j in. long, lanceolate, spine- 

 tipped, ciliate. Corolla white, over ^ in. long ; tube slender, annulate 

 within near the base ; upper lip white-woolly, | in. long; lower in.; 

 midlobe obovate, rounded. Nutlets % in. long, narrowly oblon'g- ellipsoid, 

 smooth, brown. 



Dehra Dun and in the Saharanpur District, also in the Jumna ravines of 

 the Agra district. DISTRIB. Punjab Plain, Parasnath in Bengal, 

 Sind, and southwards to the Deccan and S. India, and also in Burma. 



