LiPPiA. 15 



acuminate, margins crenate except near the base; base 3-nerved; 

 upper side with short hairs, each on a small papil, lower side 

 scabrid on the nerve-reticulation; heads on long axillary pedun- 

 cles, which are hardly shorter than the leaves, spicate, with 

 two linear involucral bracts, afterwards elongated, oblong- 

 conical; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, greyish, as long as the 

 half or a third of the corolla-tube. 



Distribution: Java. 



We could not discover any mention of this plant in the , 

 bibliography of the systematical botany about the regions dealt 

 with. Perhaps it is identical with L. aculeata. 



III. LIPPIA L. Gen. pi. ed. I, 347 (1737); Blume, Bijdr. 

 821; Benth. and Hook. Gen. pi. II, ii, 1142; R. Brown, 

 Prodr. 514; Benth. and v. Muell. FI. Austr. V. 34; 

 Schauer. DC. Prodr. XI. 572; Engl. u. Prantl. Nat. 

 Pfl. fam. IV, 3a, 151; Hook. f.. Fi. Br. Ind. IV. 563; 

 King and Gamble. Journ. As. See. Bengal. LXXIV, 4. 797; 

 MiqueL Fl. Ind. bat. II. 905; Hasskarl, 2e Cat. 'sL. PI. tuin 

 Buitzg.. 134. — Shrubs, or undershrubs; branches tetrago- 

 nous, usually hairy; leaves simple, opposite or verticillate, 

 rarely alternate; inflorescences spicate or capitate, flowers 

 small, in the axils of bracts; calyx membranous, tubular 

 2-lipped and more or less irregularly 4-lobed; coroHa-tube 

 cylindrical, somewhat funnel'shaped, limb spreading, obli- 

 que, 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped.; stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included, with very short filaments, inserted in the upper 

 part of the corolla-tube; style terminal, short; ovary 

 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; fruit dry. splitting up into twO' 

 1 -seeded cocci; albumen none. 



Distribution: chiefly in tropical America; some species 

 in Africa and some in Asia, one cosmopolitical in the 

 tropics and subtropics. 



