716 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



2. Anisomeles malabarica, E. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2071 (1819). 

 An erect shrubby plant, with obtusely 4-angied stems and branches, 

 4 to 6 ft. high, densely tomentose or thickly woolly. Leaves opposite, 

 very thickly herbaceous, pale-green above, white below, uniformly 

 softly woolly tomentose, oblong-lanceolate, acute, with entire rounded 

 or shortly cuneate base ; margin elsewhere crenate- serrate ; 2-5 to 4 in. 

 long, -75 to 1-75 in. wide ; petiole -5 in. long, stout, softly woolly. 

 Floioers in dense whorls, distant below, approximate above, often 1-25 in. 

 across, forming an interrupted spicate inflorescence ; bracts 4 to '5 in. 

 long, linear, acute, densely softly woolly. Calyx -3 in. (in fruit -4 in.) 

 long, subsessile, densely villous ; teeth about half as long as tube, 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute, villous externally and internally, ciliate. 

 Corolla -8 in. long, dark-purple, somewhat pubescent externally ; tube 

 •35 in. long ; lower lip 4-lobed from deep division of the middle seg- 

 ment into 2 oblong obtuse lobes ; upper lip -35 in. long, obtuse. Fila- 

 ments pubescent. Nutlets -12 to -15 in. long, ellipsoid, compressed, 

 inner face faintly angled, outer rounded, smooth, shining, brown. 

 Wall. Cat. 2037 ; Hook. Journ. Bot. I. 225, t. 127 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 864 ; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 59, in Lab. Gen. & Sp. 704, and in 

 DC. Prodr. XII. 456; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 673. A. intermedia, 

 Wight in Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 703 ; DC. Prodr. XII. 456. Nepeta 

 malabarica, Linn. Mant. 566. Ajuga fruticosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 1. 



Penang : Wallich 2037 ! Ayer Etam, Tat's Corner, Curtis 3741 !— 

 DisTRiB. Drier parts of India and Ceylon ; Mauritius, where it is pro- 

 bably an introduced species. 



The fact that this plant is in our area confined, so far as is known, to Penang, 

 makes it not improbable that we have here to deal with an introduced species. It 

 is a common and characteristic plant of the Deccan and of the drier region of Ceylon, 

 but does not occur elsewhere in India. 



13. Leonotis, E. Br. 



Herbs or shrubs, usually tall and coarse. Floioers large, in many- 

 flowered axillary whorls ; bracts numerous, slender. Calyx 10-nerved ; 

 tube often incurved ; mouth oblique, with 8 to 10 rigid teeth, the 

 uppermost longer than the rest. Corolla-tube included or exserted ; 

 lower lip small, 3-lobed, the mid-lobe largest ; upper lip long, concave, 

 villous above. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under upper lip, 

 lower pair longer ; anthers connivent ; the cells divaricate. Disk equal. 

 Style subulate, with very short upper lobe. Nutlets obovoid or oblong 

 or ovoid, truncate or rounded at the apex, glabrous. — Distrib. Species 

 about 12, mostly confined to Africa, the present one occurring also in 

 Asia and America, where probably it was originally introduced. 



