720 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers subsessile or shortly pedicelled, in axillary and terminal but 

 always leafy whorls, and always towards apex of stem and branches, -4 

 to "6 in. across ; bracts "2 to '3 in. long, narrowly linear, subspinescent, 

 finely puberuloiis. Calyx -35 in. (in fruit "45 in.) long behind, '2 to 

 '25 in. long in front, sparingly puberulous or glabrous externally ; tube 

 curved ; mouth pubescent within with adpressed white short hairs, 

 contracted, very oblique, rounded below, and forming above a large acute 

 lobe much produced forward and tipped by a minute spinescent tooth ; 

 the remaining teeth variable in number, also minute, distant, erect 

 along the oblique margin, usually 3, occasionally 4, sometimes only 2 

 on each side, with often a small tooth in the centre of the rounded 

 sinus opposite the acute posterior lobe. Corolla white, medium, '5 in. 

 long ; tube -25 in. long, annulate within near the middle ; lower lip 

 patent, the mid-lobe large, obovate, rounded, lateral lobes small ; upper 

 lip oblong, white-woolly. Nutlets -12 in. long, oblong, rounded at apex ; 

 inner face angular, outer rounded ; pale-brown, dull. L. linifolia, Spreng. 

 Syst. II. 743 (1825) ; Wall. Cat. 2048 ; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 

 60, in Lab. Gen. & Sp. 617, and in DC. Prodr. XII. 533 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 983 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 690. Phloviis linifolia, Eoth 

 Nov. Sp. 260 (1821). P. zeylanica, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 9 ; Jacq. Ic. PL 

 Ear. I. 11, t. Ill (not of Linn.). Leomirus indicus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 127. 

 Herba admirationis, Eumph. Herb. Amboin. VI. t. 16, f. 1. 



Penang : Penara Bukit, Curtis 1115 ! Singapore : in cultivated 

 ground, G. Thomson ! K^cnstler 48 ! — Distbib. South-eastern Asia 

 generally ; Mascarenes (Madagascar, Mauritius, Edunion, Seychelles). 



The calyx-mouth of this species has been described in works of much authority as 

 glabrous within ; it is pubescent within. 



15. Leonueus, Linn. 



Stout, erect, leafy herbs, with lobed leaves. Flowers small, in 

 densely congested, axillary distant whorls. Calyx turbinate, 5-nerved, 

 with 5 spreading spinescent teeth. Corolla-tuhe naked or annulate 

 within ; lower lip 3-fid, with obcordate mid-lobe ; upper lip entire, erect. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under upper lip, lower pair longer ; 

 anthers connivent ; the cells parallel, transverse. Dish uniform. Style 

 equaly 2-fid ; the lobes obtuse or subulate. Nutlets smooth, dry, 

 truncate at the apex.— Distbib. Species 10 ; almost cosmopolitan. 



Leonubus sibiricus, Linn. Sp. PI. 584 (1753). A rather coarse 

 annual herb, with obtusely 4-angled, furrowed, usually softly pubescent 

 stems, 2 to 6 ft. high. Leaves opposite, herbaceous, palmatipartite, 

 with linear incised segments, dark-green and glabrous or nearly so 



