Leucas] xcvii. LABiATiE. 877 



4. L. Bakeri Hiern, sp. n. 



An annual, erect, pubescent, minutely glandular, hoary-greenish 

 herb, 1 to 2^ ft. high, with the smell of a Lamivm,, more or less 

 branched from the base ; stem obtusely tetragonal, rather slender, 

 its pubescence directed downwards ; branches spreading, ascend- 

 ing, leafy towards the apex ; leaves linear or nearly so, obtusely 

 narrowed or scarcely acute at the apex, somewhat narrowed at 

 the sessile base, paucidentate, firmly herbaceous, punctulatej 1|- 

 to 2\ in. long by ^ to |- in. broad ; flowers ^ in. long, subsessUe, 

 several, crowded together in axillary and quasi-terminal verticils ; 

 verticils bracteate at the base ; bracts several, filiform-subulate, 

 strongly ciliate, -^ to i in. long ; calyx ^ in. long in flower, ^ in. 

 long in fruit, 10-ribbed, tubular-bilabiate; the tube |- in. long, 

 somewhat turbinate, more or less pubescent inside and out ; the 

 limb 10-lobed; the teeth acute, subulate, joined together below 

 with an arachnoid membrane, separate at the apex, three of 

 them taller than the rest; corolla J in. long, rather shorter than 

 the calyx, white, the tube ^ in. long ; the upper lip emarginate at 

 the apex or shortly 2-lobed, densely white-shaggy ; the lower Up 

 3-lobed ; stamens shorter than the corolla ; nutlets i, truncate. 



PUNSO Andongo. — In wooded meadows at the right bank of the 

 river Cuanza between Muta Lucala and Quibinda, plentiful ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1857. No. 3232. 



HuiLLA. — ^In potato fields near LopoUo ; fl. Deo. 1859. No. 5512- 

 On the Empalanoa plateau ; fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 5513. 



5, L. ebracteata Peyritsch in Sitzb. Akad. Wien, Math.-Nat. 

 xxxviii. p. 577 (1860). 



I have not seen the type of this species ; our specimens which 

 are described below appear to belong to it : — 



An annual, erect or decumbent, usually branched herb, with 

 the habit of a Leonotis, from a few inches to a few feet high ; the 

 stem trichotomously branchediand the spreading branches obtusely 

 tetragonal, 4-furrowed, minutely glandular, pubescent with short 

 downward hairs, pallid ; leaves elliptical or oval, obtuse at the 

 apex, somewhat narrowed towards the base, thinly herbaceous, 

 softly puberulous, minutely glandular, dark green above, paler 

 and more pubescent along the veins beneath, strongly crenate- 

 dentate, f to 2^ in. long by f to IJ in. broad ; petioles ranging up 

 to |- in. long, pubescent ; flowers white, f in., , subsessUe or very 

 shortly pedicellate, numerous, crowded in axillary and subterminal 

 verticils ; verticils not conspicuously bracteate at the base, sessile ; 

 bracts minute ; calyx tubular-turbinate, bilabiate, ^ in. long or 

 in fruit rather longer, pubescent outside, naked inside ; the tnbe 

 about -^^ in. long, 10-ribbed, not contracted at the mouth; the 

 lower lip subquadrate, tridentate at the apex, about -J in. 

 broad, suberect, the teeth shortly subulate ; the upper lip very 

 short, subtruncate, 5-dentate ; the teeth unequal, rather short and 

 subulate ; corolla nearly |- in. long, bilabiate ; the tube nearly 

 ^ in. long, about ^ in. in diameter at the base, gradually dilated 

 in the upper half ; upper lip erect, about ^ in. long, obovate- 



