Lmcas.] oxii. LABiATiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 691 



Cat. Bomb. PI. 153 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211. L. lavandulssfolia, 

 Sm. in Bees Cyclop. Phlomis linifolia, Both Nov. Sp. 260. P. zeylanioa, 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 9 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. i. 11, t. 111. Leoimrus indicus, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 127.— Bumpk. Herb. Amb. vi. t. 16, f. 1. 



Plains of India j from Assam and Bengal and Silhet to Singapore. In the 

 DeOO AN ; from the Concan to Travanoore (not seen from the W. ' or N.W. Provinces 

 of India, nor from Ceylon). — Distkib. Mauritius, Malay Islands. 



Stem 2-3 ft., usually stout and much branched aboTe. Leaves rarely | in. broad ; 

 petiole 0-J in. Whorls towards the ends of the branches, \-% in. diam.; bracts 

 setaceous. Calyx pale below, not striate above, toothing variable, sometimes 

 spinescent. 



Vab. decipiem ; hispidly hairy, bracts very many oiliate, tips spinescent, calyx 

 larger hirsute or pubescent, teeth longer spinous, uppermost punojent. L. aspera, 

 PI. Ind. Or. HoTienack. n. 1234. — South Deccan; Pycarrah, Wight; Nilghiris, 

 MohenaeJcer. — Confounded with L. aspera in various collections, with which it agrees 

 in hairiness. 



DOUBTEUL SPBOIES. 



L. DIMIDIATA, Spreng. Syst. ii. 748; stem hairy, leaves oblong-lanceolate sub- 

 serrate hirsute, whorls dimidiate, calyx oblong hairy above, teeth 10 subulate subpun- 

 gent. — East Indies. — Probably L. aspera, to which belongs the specimen referred 

 to this species by Bentham in his " Labiatarum Gen. & Sp.," and which is entirely 

 different from L, diffusa. 



46. IiEONOTXS, Br. 



Herbs or shrubs. Whorls axillary, densely many-fld. ; bracteoles many, 

 slender; flowers scarlet or yellow, valyx 10-nerved, often inoarved, mouth 

 oblique ; teeth 8-10, rigid, upper largest. Corolla-tube exserted ; upper 

 lip long, concave, crown villous; lower very small, spreading, _ concave, 

 midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 

 Bisk equal. Style subulate, upper lobe very short. Nutlets oblong or 

 ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse or truncate, glabrous. — Species 12, African, one 

 also Indian. 



Ii. nepetaefolla, Br. Prodr. 504 ; herbaceous, leaves membranous 

 ovate crenate, bracts spinescent, calyx 4-1 in., upper lip .prominent rigid 

 spinescent, lower with three erect or recurved spinescent teeth. Benth. in 

 Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 59, Lab. 618, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 635 ; Wall. Cat. 

 2042 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 158 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 211 ; Wight 

 HI. ii. t. 176 bis, i. 11, and Ic. t. 867 ; Bot. Beg. t. 281 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3700. 

 , Phlomis nepetaafolia, Linn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 8. Leonurus globosus, 

 Moench Meth. 400. 



Throughout hotter India, from the Panjab to Travaneore and Singapore, but not 

 very common ; cultivated and naturalized, doubtfully indigenous. Ceylon ; in the 

 drier parts. — Distbib. Tropical Asia, Africa and America. 



A tall annual, 4-6 ft. ; stem as thick as the finger, 4-angled with concave faces, 

 -puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in. ; floral lanceolate, deflexed ; petiole 1-3 in,, winged 

 above, slender. Whorls distant, globose, 2-3 in. diam., squarrose ; bracts slender, 

 linear, deflexed. Calyx % in. long, ribbed and reticulate, pubescent or villous, 

 tubular, incurved, teeth' spinescent, upper J in. long ; throat glabrous. Corolla 

 orange-red, 1 in. long ; tube slender, exserted, villous like the upper lip, lower lip 

 minute. Nutlets linear-oblong, widening upwards, truncate. 



^7. FHIiOnXXS, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Whorls axillary, dense-fld. ; bracteoles many, ovate 



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