CVIII. LABIATE. 
Leucas .] 
651 
•^5 in. long, tube curved, very oblique with a large acute spined 
tooth above. Corolla white, -5 in. iong, upper lip oblong, white 
woolly, lower lip midlobe large obovate round. Hab. Common, 
but less so than zeylanica, in waste ground, coconut estates, etc. 
Singapore, Mt. Faber; Gelang. Malacca Hill. Penang, Penara 
Bukit (Curtis). Distrib. India, Malay isles, Java to Philippines. 
14. LEONURUS, Linn. 
Stout leafy herbs. Leaves lobed. Flowers medium or small 
in axillary dense-flowered distant whorls. Calyx 5 _nervec ^ i ta¬ 
bulate, teeth spiny, spreading. Corolla, upper lip entire, lower 
trifid, midlobe obcordate. Stamens 4. Nutlets triquetrous. 
Species 10, temperate and sub-temperate regions. 
(1) L. sibiricus Linn. Sp. PL 584; Hook. F.B.I. iv. 678 , 
Prain, l.c. 720. . , N 
Stout herb nearly or quite glabrous, 12 to 24 in. tah (or more), 
stem 4-angled. Leaves palmate or pinnati-partite below, 3 in. 
long, 2 in. across above, lobes linear, or at top simple linear, 1-5 m. 
long, -15 to 2 in. wide; petioles >25 in. long or less, all pale 
beneath. Whorls numerous, -5 in. through. Bracts reduced to 
spines. Calyx -2 in. long, teeth spines pubescent. Corolla *35 m. 
long, pubescent, pink. Hab. Waste places near gardens, often 
cultivated by Chinese, Singapore and Malacca (Thomson and 
Griffith in 1845). Pahang, Pekan. Selangor Pudoh (Good- 
enough). Rahman, Kota Bharu (Yapp). Distrib All the warm 
parts of the world. Native names : Tebung Aga; Serantmg. 
15. PARAPHLOMIS, Prain 
Large herbs or shrubs. Leaves membranous. Flowers yellow 
(or white) in dense axillary whorls; bracts numerous filiform 
Calyx io-nerved equally 5-toothed. Corolla upper lip pubescent 
outside, glabrous inside, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
ascending under upper lip, lower longer; style bifid. Nutlets 
obovoid triquetrous below. Species 3, Indo-Malayan. . , 
(1) P. rugosa Prain, Ann , Roy. Hot. Gard. Calc. ix. 1. 00, 
Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng., l.c. 791. . , , . 
Coarse shrubby plant 2 to 3 ft. tall; stems minutely hairy. 
Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy above elliptic-ovate, long acumi¬ 
nate, base cuneate toothed, 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 hi wide, petioles 
slender 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers in axillary whorls chiefly below 
leaves, ’75 to 1*25 in. through. Calyx -4 in. long, obcomc, cam- 
panulate, teeth narrow. Corolla yellow, 1 in. long. Nutlets -25 
in. long. Hab. Rocky jungle, Pahang, Telom (Ridley). Perak, 
Waterloo (Curtis); Maxwell’s Hill; Kinta (Kunstler). Dislnb. 
India, Cambodia, Malay islands. 
