Stachytarpheta. 19 



68, (1845). — A shrub; branchlets hirsute, glandular; 

 leaves opposite or ternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, base " attenuate, apex acute or obtuse, 

 margins serrate, entire near base, above strigosely -hirsute, 

 beneath, especially on the nerves greyish^pubescent; inflo- 

 rescences capitulate, globose at first, ultimately cylindrical- 

 ovoid, peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, one or 

 two of them in the axils of the leaves; bracts rhomboid- 

 subrotundate, abruptly acuminate or acute, strigosely 

 greyish-pubescent, as long as the corolla-tube. 



Distribution : tropical America, South- Africa, Java. 



Doubtful species: 



4. L. javanica 5pr. Syst. veg. II, 572(or 752?), (1825^28); 

 Schauer, DC. Prodr. XI, 593; Miq. Fi. Ind. bat. II, 906 

 (sub L. asperifolia as a doubtful synonyme). — An erect 

 shrub; leaves oblong, subcrenulate ; lower peduncles opposite, 

 upper ones whorled, longer than the leaves ; heads cylindric ; 

 bracts acute. 



Distribution: Java, 



Probably this is the same as L. asperifolia. 



IV. STACHYTARPHETA Vahl, Enum., 1,205.(1805); 

 Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. II, II, 1 145; Schauer, DC. Prodr. 

 XI, 561; Engl. u. Prantl, IV, 3a, 154; Hook. f. FJ. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 564; King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXIV. 

 4, 798; Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 907. — Herbs or shrubs 

 with usually dichotomous branches; leaves usually opposite, 

 simple, dentate or crenate, often rugose; inflorescences 

 spicate, terminal, usually long and lax, the rhachis often 

 angular and excavated beneath the by a bract supported 

 flowers; flowers white, blue, red or pink; ca/yx membranous, 

 narrowly cylindrical, 4— 5-toothed, variously slit at a late 

 stage; corolla with cylindrical, slender, often curved tube, 

 limb spreading, 5-lobed, throat more or less villous; 



