Leucas.] oxii. labiate. (J. D. Hooker.) 687 



rate pubescent above tomentose beneath, whorls subsolitary and terminal 

 many- and dense-fid., calyx J-f in. tubular narrowed below villous, teeth 

 Riender erect ciliate longer than the villi of the mouth, corolla large. Wight 

 Ic. t. 338. 



South Deocan Peninstjia ; TFight. Pulney and Balaramgan Hills (Mysore), 

 Seddome. 



A more slender plant than L. lamiifolia, apparently annual, more sparsely hairy, 

 with narrower leaves, smaller heads, longer calyx and larger corolla. 



Vab. oblongifolia ; shorter, stem woody below, leaves smaller lJ-2 in. more 

 oblong and villous above. — Gourtallam, "Wight. 



Vae. aericostoma i branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves silkily villous, 

 ciJyx-teeth shorter than the long white silky hairs of the mouth. — Anamallay Hills, 



Tab. tangustifolia ; tall, branches with soft spreading hairs, leaves 2-3 by J in. 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse, calyx-teeth as long as two-thirds of the tube. — Siaparah, 

 Wight ; Palghat high range, Beddome. 



26. !■■ hirta, Spreng. Syst. ii. 743 ; villously hirsute or scabrid, stem 

 woody below, leaves 1-2 in. sessile or shortly petioled elliptic or linear 

 ohlong obtuse obscurely toothed, whorls solitary terminal, bracts as long as 

 the soabrid turbinate calyx, calyx-teeth recurved equalling or shorter than 

 the copious villi of the mouth. Benth. Lah. 613, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 

 5S0. L. helianthemifolia, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2053, non Desf. L. rufescens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2053. Phlomis hirta, 

 Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 264<. 



Dbccan PbNINSTtlAj Bangalore, JSottleri Nilghiri, Mysore and Shevaghery 

 Hills, Wight. 



Probably a dry country or locality form of i. vesiita, ranch smaller, more soabridly 

 hirsute or villous, with very much smaller leaves and calyces and longer villi of the 

 mouth than the latter. The hairs on the branches are deflexed or spreading, rarely 



Vae. prostrata ; smaller, more slender, branches prostrate or ascending, leaves 

 J-1 in. broadly ovate often petioled, villi of calyx-mouth shorter. — Anamallay and 

 Nilghiri Hills, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



Vae.? Seddomei; erect, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves 2-2 j in. 

 linear-oblong subsilkily villous on both surfaces, whorls in several axils, calyx J in., 

 teeth very small recurved triangular subulate spinescent longer than the villi of the 

 mouth. — Chambra Peek, Wynaad, alt. 5000 ft., Seddome. 



27. !■■ ciliata, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 61, Lab. 614, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 530; stem and branches hirsute with spreading and 

 deflexed hairs, leaves petioled 2-4 in. ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate 

 pubescent or glabrate, whorls globose large many- and dense-fld. terminal 

 and axillary, bracts as long as the calyx hirsute, calyx J-| in. tubular 

 scabrid or villous, teeth long slender patent or recurved, mouth wide naked 

 or ciliate. Wall. Cat. 2046 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211. 



Tbmpbeate Himalaya; Nepal, WalUeh; Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft., •7'. Z). S^ j 

 Bhotan, Griffith. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. ; Wallich, &c. Decoan Peuin- 

 SUIA; on the Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore. 



A tall annual ? 1-3 ft. , stem branched, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves membra- 

 nous, narrowed at the base; petiole ^-| in. Whorls 1-1| in. diam., crinite from the 

 slender long bracts and calyx-teeth. Calyx very variable in size and hairiness, teeth 

 flexuous, ciliate, in small forms more than half as long as the tubs. Corolla-tube 

 included. Nutlets t\j-| in., oblong, smooth. 



Sect. 4. Plagriostoma. Bracts usually as long as the calyx or 

 nearly so. Calyx turbinate obconic or tubular, mouth very oblique, the 



