686 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Leucas. 



** Leaves more or less serrate or crenate. 



22. li. Stelliffera, Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 61, and Oaf. 2049; her- 

 baceous, erect, branched, pubescent or tomentose, leaves 2-4 in. shortly 

 ;^etioled elliptic-laticeolate snbacnte obtusely serrate, whoi'ls large crowded 

 many- and deuse-fld., calyx i-|- in. tabnlar-campauulate scabrid or tomen- 

 tose, teeth thick triangular 'subulate spreading and recurved longer than 

 the villi of the mouth. Benth. Lab. 61, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 529; Balz. 

 Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 211. L. hamatula. Am. Pugill. PI. Ind. Or. 37; 

 Benth. in DC I. o. 



CeyiON ; on the Gliats, Dalzell; Warree country. Stocks ; Belgaum, Sitchie. 



Stem 2-3 ft. ; branches obtusely 4-,gonous, hairs spreading. Leaves i-f in. diam., 

 green, scaberulous or glabrate above, pubescent beneath, narrowed into the petiole. 

 Whorls 1-] i in. diam. ; bracts linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 very variable in size, fruiting membranous, naked below the middle; teeth rarely 

 spinescent, tomentose. Nutlets ,^ in., oblong. 



23. 1m. eriostoma, MooJc. f. ; sufErutioose, hispidly hairy, woolly or 

 tomentose, leaves 1^-4 in. shortly petioled narrowly linear-Ian oeolate or 

 oblong obtuse obtusely serrate, whorls axillary many- and dense-fld., bracts 

 effualling the calyx plumose or ciiiate, calyx J-§ in. tubular-funnel-shaped 

 villous above the middle, teeth very minute much shorter than the dense 

 ring of white villi in the mouth. Phlomis eriostoma, BLeyne mss. 



Deccan Peninsttla ; Western Ghats, from the Coucan to the Nilghiris. 



Sranches 6-10 in., stout, nearly terete. Leaves very variable in length, nerves 

 impressed above. Whorls ^-| in. diam. Calyx naked below the middle. Corolla 

 very small, tube included. Nutlets .^ in., oblong. — ^There are several varieties 

 of this. 



Vae. Seynii ; hispidly hairy on the branches and leaves, hairs spreading, leaves 

 2-3 in. — Wynaad, Seyne. 



Vab. lortgifolia; hoary-tomentose, leaves 3-4 in. nearly glabrous. Serb. 

 Wight, &c. 



Vae. latifolia ; very robust, villonsly tomentose, leaves broader elliptic oblong or 

 lanceolate, 2-3 by l-lj in., whorls large globose IJ in. diam. Serb. Wight. 



Vab. lanata; branches clothed with dense long soft white spreading hairs, 

 leaves 1-lJ in. oblong lanceolate villous on both surfaces. — Nilghiris and Bababoodan 

 Hills.^ — L. lepistoma, Serb. Wight. 



Vae. Stocksii ; branches densely clothed as in var. lanata, but tomentum shorter 

 and whiter, leaves subsilky beneath l-lj in. 



24. Zi. lamiifolia, Desf. in Mem. Mus. xi. 4, t. 2, f. 1 ; tall, shrubby 

 below, branches very stout square and petioles hirsute with long brown hairs, 

 leaves 3-5 in. shortly petioled ovate subacute crenate-serrate villous above 

 densely tomentose beneath, whorls subsolitary subglobose many- and dense- 

 fld., calyx ^ in. suboampanulate villous, teeth slender erect longer than the 

 villi of the mouth ciHate, corolla-tube included. Benth. Lab. 613, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 529. 



JiTiLaHiEi Hiiis, alt. 6500-7500 ft. ; Wight, &c. 



Much the largest and largest-leaved species, 8 ft. high, branches J in. diam. 

 Leases lj-2i in. broad, base sometimes cordate. Whorls terminal, rarely 2 on the 

 same branch, IJ in. diam. ; bracts exceeding the calyx, outer linear-lanceolate, inner 

 filiform. Calyx membranous, teeth about J the length of the tube, villi of the mouth 

 sparse. Corolla small. Nutlets ^ in. long, oblong. 



25. Ii. vestita,, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 61, Lab. 613 (^excl. 

 Silhet), and in DC. Prodr. xii. 530; tall, herbaceous, branches square and 

 petioles hirsute, leaves shortly petioled 2-4 in. ovate-lanceolate acute ser- 



