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with spreading hispiclulous hairs, paler and subglaucescent beneath, 

 with spreading hispidulous hairs on the nerves, the hairs on both sides 

 curved towards leaf-apex, ovate-lanceolate, or occasionally lanceolate, 

 acute ; base long-cuneate, entire ; margin elsewhere entire or remotely 

 and sparingly serrate ; 1-5 to 3 in. long, -25 to -5, rarely -75 in. Wide ; 

 petiole -1 to '2 in. long, hispidulous. Floioers sessile or subsessile, in 

 terminal usually 6- to 8-leaved whorls -5 to '75 in. across, occasionally 

 also axillary whorls occur below; bracts -25 in. long, linear, spinescent, 

 hispidulous along the margin with stiff spreading hairs. Calyx -2 in. 

 (in fruit -3 in.) long, turbinate, slightly curved ; the tube below glabrous 

 or faintly pubescent externally, above beset with scattered, spreading, 

 hispidulous hairs ; the mouth subcampanulate, oblique, distinctly trans- 

 versely veined between the 10 nerves, and sparingly pubescent within 

 with short white hairs, the uppermost of which project beyond the 

 limb ; teeth 8, the uppermost -05 in. long, slightly longer than the 

 others, all subulate, spinescent at the tip. Corolla white, medium, 

 •5 in. long ; tube -25 in. long, glabrous below, enlarged upwards where 

 pubescent externally, annulate within near the middle ; lower lip patent, 

 the mid-lobe large, shortly widely clawed, the lateral lobes small ; upper 

 lip obovate, white-woolly. Nutlets -15 in. long, obovoid-oblong ; apex 

 subtruncate ; inner face angular, outer rounded ; dark-brown or black, 

 shining. Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. I. 60, in Lab. Gen. & Sp. 614, and in 

 DC. Prodr. XII. 531 ; Wight 111. t. 176 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 689. 

 L. involucrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2047. L. dimidiata, Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. XII. 532 {probably not of Spreng. Syst. II. 743). L. nutans, 

 Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 60 {not of Spreng.) ; WaU. Cat. 2523 

 {not of Spreng.). L. malayana, Hance in Walp. Ann. III. 269. L. 

 bancana, Miq. PL Ind. Bat. Suppl. 572 ; HalHer f. Ann. Jard. Bot. 

 Buitenz. XIII. 293. L. aspera, Hook. f. El. Br. Ind. IV. 690 {in part ; 

 not of Spreng.). PJilomis zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 820. Leonurics 

 Marrubiastrum, Burm. PL Ind. 127 {not o/Linn.). 



Singapore : in waste places, frequent, G. Thomson ! Kurz 2906 ! 

 Deschamps ! Malacca : Griffith ! — Disteib. Throughout South- 

 eastern Asia. 



8. Leucas lavandulifolia, Smith in Eees Cyclop. XX. n. 2 (1819). 

 An erect, slender, annual herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, usually branching. Steins 

 and branches 4-angled, finely adpressed-puberulous. Leaves opposite, 

 herbaceous, finely puberulous on both surfaces, rather pale-green, hnear- 

 lanceolate, less often lanceolate, subacute ; base tapering gradually from 

 about the middle, entire ; margin elsewhere entire in Hnear-lanceolate 

 leaves, sometimes remotely and sparingly serrate in lanceolate ones ; 

 petiole usually very short or obsolete, rarely as much as -35 in. long. 



