252 LABIATE. [ LEDCAS. 



7. L. lanata, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i, 61; F. B. I. iv, 681 

 Collett Fl. Siml. 405 : Prain Beng. PI. 856 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 468. 



A softly woolly or subsilky perennial herb, 2-3 ft. high ; rootstock stout, 

 woody; stem and branches bluntly 4-angled, clothed with erect hairs. 

 Leaves thick, sessile or shortly petioled, 1-3 in. long, ovate, obtuse or 

 acute, crenate or subserrate, rugose softly tpmentose or silky, rounded 

 or cuneate at the base. Flowers sessile, in many-flowered axillary 

 whorls ; bracts shorter than the calyx, setaceous, densely hairy and 

 ciliate. Calyx -3 in. long, very silky outside, upper half of tube villous 

 inside, mouth truncate ; teeth minute, triangular-subulate. Corolla 

 white, exceeding-^ in.; tube as long as the calyx, annulate above the 

 middle; upper lip densely silky on both sides, midlobe of lower lip 

 obovate, 2-tid. Nutlets oblong-ob ovoid, apex obliquely truncate. 



Dehra Dun at Kansrao (Wallich), Gonda district of N. Oudh. (Duthie), 

 Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). DISTEIB. W. Himalaya from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon, up to 8,000 ft. and from the Konkan and Kanara to the Nil- 

 girls, extending to Upper Burma and S. China. 



8. L. mollissima, Wall PL As. Ear. i, 62 B,oyle III. 301 ; F. B. L 

 iv, 682, Watt E. D.: Prain Beng. PL 856 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 469. 



A straggling much-branched hoary-tomentose herb. Stems 3-4 ft. long, 

 4-angled ; branches slender, clothed with appressed deflexed hairs. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, 1|-2| in. long, ovate or ovate-lancolate 

 usually acute, serrate ; upper surface sparsely clothed with 

 appressed hairs, densely white-tomentose beneath. Flowers subse- 

 ssile, arranged in distant many-flowered whorls ; bracts shorter than 

 the calyx, linear, hairy. Calyx -3 in. long, silky-villous outside, the 



2-fid. Nutlets T V in. long, oblong-obovoid, obtusely truncate at the apex. 



Dehra Dun, N Oudh, Bundelkhand, often found climbing amongst bushes. 

 DISTRIB. Subtropical Himalaya in Nepal and "Kumaon, Bengal, Orissa, 

 Khasia Mts. up^ to 4,000 ft., C. India, Konkan, Kanara, S. India and in 

 Ceylon, extending to China. 



VAB. scabcrula, F.B.I. I c.; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. PL I.e. More 

 glabrous; calyx hispid. Dehra Dun and Siwalik range and eastwards 

 along the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Kohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. 

 DISTRIB. Chota Nagpur, C. India and Khasia Mts. 



9. L. procumbens, Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. %i, 7, t. 3, f. 2 ; Eoyle IlL 

 301 ; F. B. I. iv, 683 ; Prain Beng. PI. 857 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 470 ; 

 Phlomis biflora, Roacb. FL Ind, Hi, 12 (in part). 



A procumbent perennial herb, root-stock woody ; stems and branches 

 slender, 2-3 ft. long, 4-angled, more or less pubescent on the angles, 

 Leaves stalked |-lf in. long, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, acute, serrate, 



