260 labiatjs. [ Achyrospermum . 
long as the tube. Corolla white, spotted with light red, f in. long. 
Longer stamens and style exserted from the galea. 
Seychelles, in shaded woods of Mahe and Silhouette, Horne , 553 ! Endemic. 
3. ANISOMELES, E. Br. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 10-ribbed ; teeth 5, subequal, lanceolate 
or deltoid. Corolla arching, deeply bilabiate ; upper lip oblong, entire ; 
lower deeply 3-lobed, the lowest lobe deeply emarginate. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, exserted ; anthers of the long ones 1-celled. Style 
bifid. Nucules ovoid- trigonal, dry, smooth. — Perennial herbs, with 
flowers in close or subdistant whorls of congested cymes. Distrib. 
Tropics of the Old World. Species probably 2 or 3 only. 
Leaves thick, ovate-lanceolate, persistently tomentose on 
both sides 1. A. malabarica. 
Leaves thin, broad ovate * A. ovata. 
1. A. malabarica, B. Br. ; Bot. Mag. t. 2071. An erect branched 
perennial, 3-5 feet high, with stem and leaves on both sides matted 
with persistent soft whitish tomentum. Leaves thick, petioled, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, crenate, 2-3 in. long. Eacemes 6-9 in. long, the 
upper whorls close, the lower distant, all the bract-leaves small. Calyx 
-i- in. long, densely pilose ; teeth large, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 
lilac, pilose, the limb i in long, exserted from the calyx. Wight Ic. t. 
864 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 456. Nepeta malabarica, Linn. 
Stachys mauritiana, Sieber , Exsic. 159. Craniotome mauritiana, Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 249. 
Mauritius, common about Port Louis and in other parts of the island. Tropical 
Asia, common. 
# A. ovata , E. Br. ; Jacq. fil. Eclog. t. 86 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 358, t. 
19, common in Tropical Asia, is naturalised in Mauritius on the slope 
of the Pouce by the side of the road to Moka. It has the stem and 
leaves below clothed with short soft spreading pubescence, thin broad 
ovate leaves, lower whorls of flowers distant and bracteated with large 
leaves and lanceolate-deltoid calyx-teeth half as long as the tube. 
* Leonurus sibiricus , Linn. (L. tataricus, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 249, 
non Linn.), a native of Asia, is subspontaneous in Mauritius and 
Eodriguez in cultivated and waste ground. It is a subglabrous erect 
annual, with leaves deeply palmately cut with pinnatifid lobes, distant 
dense whorls of flowers bracteated by large leaves, calyx funnel- 
shaped i in. long with 5 subulate teeth nearly as long as the tube, an 
arching deeply bifid reddish corolla with a tube as long as the calyx 
naked within, upper lip oblong-spathulate entire, the lower with small 
side lobes and a large deflexed lower lobe and 4 included stamens. 
4. LEONOTIS, E. Br. 
Calyx-tube long, narrowly funnel shaped, 8-10-ribbed ; teeth 8-10, 
