564 



Spec. Char. Suffruticose : branches red-villous, leafy at tlie 

 base : leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, linear, quite entire, hispid 

 above, white-tomentose beneath: bracts subulate : calyx red-villous j 

 throat truncated, villous : teeth very short, somewhat spreading. 



NeilgherrieS) flowering in the Autumn. 



(19) L. ROSMARINISOLIA. (5e«jfe.) 



Ideni. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. I. p. 61.— Dec. prod. XlT. 

 p. 528. 



Engrav, Wight's Icon. t. 1455. 



Spec, Char. Suffruticose : branches villous with adpressed 

 hairs: leaves sessile, linear, quite entire, scabrously hairy above, 

 ■white-tomentose or hoary beneath, hispid at the rib : bracts 

 lanceolate-linear ; throat of the villous calyx truncated^ villous ; 

 tteeth very short, somewhat spreading. 



Peninsula. Neilgherries. Flowering nearly all the year. 



(20) L. HELIANTHEMIFOIIA. {Dssf.) 



Ident. Desf. Mem. Mus. Par. XI. p. 2. t. 1, f. 1. — Dec. prod. 

 XII. p. 528. 



Spec. Char. Stem fruticose at the base : branches silky-woollyj 

 somewhat rufescent : leaves opposite, sessile, oblong-elliptic ot 

 lanceolate, quite entire, silky on both sides, greener above, very 

 white beneath : bracts linear, shorter than the calyx : calyx silky- 

 villous ; throat truncated, villous ; teeth very short, somewhat 

 spreading. 



Neilgherries. 



(21) L. TERNIFOLIA. (Desf.) 



Ident. Desf. 1. c. p. IV. t. 1. f. 2.— Dec. prod. XII. p. 529. 



Engrav, Wight's Icon. t. 1453. 



Spec. Char. Stem fruticose at the base : branches densely to« 

 inentose : leaves verticilled in threes, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 

 quite entire, silky' on both sides, very white beneath : bracts linear : 

 calyx silky-woolly ; throat truncated, villous ; teeth very short, 

 somewhat spreading : helmet of the white corolla very densely beset 

 >vith white villi. 



NeilgherrieSi 



(22) L. HAMATtlLA. (Am.) 



Ident. Arn. in Nov, act. nat. cur. XVIII. p. 355.-- Dec. prodi 

 XII. p. .529. " 



