Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Ill 



Leonotis nepetifolia, E. Br. in i\.it. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, III. 409 



(1811). A tall erect annual herb, 4 to 7 ft. high, with stout obtusely 

 thickly 4-angled stems deeply furrowed between the angles, finely 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, membranous, ovate-acute ; base shortly 

 cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, entire ; margin elsewhere coarsely 

 crenate-serrate, finely pubescent above and below, 2-5 to 6 in. long, 

 1-5 to 4 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 4 in. long, winged near apex. 

 Floivers in dense globose, axillary, many-flowered whorls 1*5 to 2-5 in. 

 across ; floral leaves lanceolate, deflexed ; bracts linear, strongly 

 spinescent at the apex, deflexed, pubescent, the longest -5 in. long or 

 longer. Calyx -6 in. (in fruit -75 in.) long, tubular, incurved, strongly 

 ribbed, puberulous below, densely pubescent above, where also hispid 

 with long white hairs, reticulately veined within, glabrous ; teeth 8 to 9, 

 unequal, the uppermost -35 in. long, ovate-acute, much exceeding the 

 triangular others, all with spinescent tips. Corolla 1 in. long, orange- 

 scarlet ; tube -5 in. long, glabrous near base, densely beset above with 

 orange- scarlet pubescence , 3-annulate within with transverse bands of 

 white hairs ; lower lip '15 to -2 in. long, with 3 oblong obtuse lobes, the 

 mesial rather the largest ; upper lip -5 in. long, densely villous with 

 orange-scarlet hairs. Nutlets '15 in. long, oblong-obovoid, obliquely 

 truncate and pitted at apex. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 59, in Lab. 

 Gen. & Sp. 618, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 535 ; Wall. Cat. 2042 ; Wight 111. 

 II. t. 176 B ; Wight Ic. t. 867 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 281 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3700 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 984 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 691. Phlomis 

 nepetafolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 586; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 8 (sph. repetifolia). 



In some of the provinces, as an escape. — Disteib. Tropical Africa, 

 where probably indigenous, but also widespread in South-eastern Asia 

 and occuring in Tropical America. 



14. Leucas, E. Br. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flotoers medium or small, in dense axillary, 

 usually distant, less often terminal whorls. Calyx 10-nerved, often 

 striate ; mouth equal or oblique ; teeth 6 to 10, usually unequal. 

 Corolla-tuhe not exserted, annulate or not within ; lower lip 3 -fid, 

 spreading , mid-lobe large ; upper lip erect, concave, villous externally. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, the upper pair shorter, ascending under upper 

 lip ; anthers connivent ; cells divaricate, ultimately confluent. Disk 

 entire or lobed, uniform or enlarged anteriorly. Style subulate ; upper 

 lobe minute or obsolete. Nutlets ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse. — Disteib. 

 Species about 100, chiefly in Tropics of Old World. 



