LEUCAS.] LABIATE. 25$ 



membranous, subglabrous, base usually acute, petioles - in. long. 

 Whorls axillary, lax, 1-3-flowered, pedicels filiform, up to ^ in. ; bracts 

 minute, ciliate. Calyx - T ] in. long, nearly glabrous, reticulate-veined, 



at the apex. 



Bundelkhand (Duthie). DISTRIB. Cent, and E. Bengal, Nimar district 

 of Cent. Prov., Belgaum, Katiara and Mysore, 



Leucas sp, A email erect more or less hispid perennial herb with a woody 

 root-stock. Stem* rather slender, sparingly hispid with short appressed 

 ascending hairs. Leaves sub-erect, -|-1 in. long, linear or elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, narrowed at the base into a very short petiole ; margins entire, 

 revolute ; upper surface strigose with short white hairs, glabrous and 

 minutely gland-dotted between the prominent hispi.l midrib and nerves. 

 Whorls small, confined to the upper axils, few-flowered ; bracts slender, 

 linear-subulate, shorter than the calyx, hispidly ciliate. Calyx in, 

 long, obconic, tube almost glabrous except on the hispid ribs ; mouth 

 wide, slightly oblique, margin shortly ciliate ; teeth distant, very 

 minute, subequal. Corolla-lube about j in. long, not annulate within, 

 midlobe of lower lip ^ in. long Filaments sparsely pilose. Near 

 Indalpur in the Shahjehanpur district of Rohilkhand (Duthie No. 4316). 

 Vern. Chota guma. Resembles L. hyssopifolia in general habit, but the 

 hairs on the stems are ascending (not spreading); the very rigid leaves 

 are more erect, the whorls which are confined to the upper axils are 

 smaller and fewer-flowered, and the mouth of the calyx is only slightly 

 oblique. The above-mentioned characters indicate a possible alliance 

 with L. diffusa, but the habit is very different. I have given provision- 

 ally the name of L. linearifolia to the specimens in the Kew herbarium, 

 as the material is hardly sufficient for a complete description. 



19. LEONOTIS, K-. Br. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 691. 



Herbs or shrubs. Flowers rather large, scarlet or yellow, arranged 

 in axillary densely many- flowered whorls ; bracts many, slender. 

 Calyx 10-nerved, tube often incurved ; mouth oblique, with 8-10 rigid 

 teeth, upper tooth largest. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip long, concave, 

 with a villous crown ; lower very small, 3-lobed, the midlobe largest. 

 Stamens didynamous ; lower pair longer, ascending, anthers connivent, 

 cells divaricate. Disk equal. Ovary 4-partite ; style subulate, the 

 upper lobe very short. Nutlets 4, oblong or ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse 

 or truncate, dry, glabrous, basal scar small. Species 12, mostly 

 African, one of which occurs also in India and America. 



L. nepetaefolia, R. Er. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii'i, 409 ; Boyle III. 

 301 ; F. B. I. iv, 691 ; Watt E. D ; Prain Beng. PL 857 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii,. 

 471. I J hlomis nepetifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 8. Vern. Bara guma. 



