536 
T Lgvcas, R: Br. 
 Leucas martinicensis, R. Br.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 479. 
Ill.—Transv. Agric. Journ. v. (1907), t. 226. 
- Wild Tea Bush (Gambia, Brown Lester). 
Katagum, Kontagora, and widely distributed in the Tropics. 
The whole plant is made into an infusion and used as a wash in 
fevers, Gambia (Kew Bull. 1891, p. 274). 
l, 2-3 ft. high, found in waste places Katagum and 
wet places by streams, Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew). 
Leonotis, Pers. 
Leonotis nepetaefolia, X. Br.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 491. 
/il.— Bot. Reg. iv. (1818) t. 281; Bot. Mag. t. 3700; Wight, 
Illust. t. 176, f. 11 (L. nepetifolia) ; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. ini. t. 
867 ; Cook & Collins, Econ. Pl. Porto Rico (Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
viii. 1903) t. 44. 
Vernac. names.—lku Ekun (Lagos, Foster); Kilanjananahary 
(Madagascar, Heckel); Maluvo, 'angilla, Maluvo-iamgilla, 
Maluvo-iamconco (Loanda, Welwitsch); Molonillo (Porto Rico, 
Cook & Collins); Matisil (Bombay, Moloney, Dymock, Watt); 
Cordao do Frade (Brazil, Moloney); Rascamoño (Porto Rico, 
Amades, Dymock).—Catmint-leaved Leonotis. 
Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
A decoction of the plant is used in diseases of the abdomen, 
Loanda (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. iv. p. 879). 
An annual, 2-5 ft. high, somewhat coarse in the leaf, but very 
ornamental when in flower; dense whorls, 2-2} in. across, yellow, 
with large bracts. Easily grown, and commonly found as a weed 
in waste places. — 
TrNNEA, Kotschy & Peyr. 
Tinnea aethiopica, Kotschy § Peyr.; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 497. 
Ill.—Kotschy, PI. Tinneanea, tir Bot. Mag. t. 5637, t. 6744 
var. dentata); Journ. Hort. Ser. 3, xxvi. p. 95. 
Ka Dalziel, No. 108, 1907, Herb. Kew) and gener lly in 
a erm Dali, No. and generally i 
A shrub, 3-6 ft. high, ornamental, with a perfume of violets. 
