Botanical name: Leucas lanceifolia    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)

Lanceleaf Leucas is a bushy shrub, with branchlets 4-angled, densely reddish woolly. Leaves are arranged in mutually perpendicular pairs, lanceshaped, up to 11 x 2.5 cm, base pointed, margin nearly entire and slightly curled, tip apiculate, scaberulous above, glaucous below; leaf-stalk up to 2 cm; bracts linear, to 1.3 cm. Flowers are borne in whorls in leaf-axils on the upper axils, up to 2.5 cm wide. Flower-tube is 1.3 cm; limb 2-lipped, 4 + 1. Sepal-cup is tubular, 0.8 cm, 8-10-ribbed; mouth straight; teeth 8-10, longer than the ring of hairs. Stamens are 4. Nutlets are oblong, 4 x 2.5 mm, brownish. Lanceleaf Leucas is found in Peninsular India.

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