278 105. LABIATÆ. 
que circiter 5 supra sat conspicuis; petiolus gracilis, 6-9 lineas 
longus. Flores parvi vel minuti (alabastra tantum visa), quadri- 
fariam spicati; spice axillares, solitarii, vel terminales, sub- 
sessiles, pollicares vel breviores, densissime, bracteis pubescenti- 
bus late spathulato-rotundatis subite acuminatis flores subtendis 
(et fere tectis P) instructe ; calyx pubescens, subsequaliter alte 5- 
dentatus, intus glaber; corolla 4-fida, labio vel lobo postico 
emarginato ; stamina 4, glabra, antheris distincte bilocularibus ; 
ovarium glabrum. 
Formosa: without locality (Oldham, 360/2!). Herb. Kew. 
Densely quadrifariously spicate flowers with large bracts cha- 
racterize this species. 
5. Elsholtzia polystachya, Benth. Lab. p. 161, et i» DC. 
Prodr. xii. p. 160; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 643. 
Aphanochilus polystachyus, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. p. 27, 
t. 33. 
Colebrookia oppositifolia, Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 487, nec Smith. 
Hupren: Fang (A. Henry!) Herb. Kew 
North India, from Kashmir to Khasia. 
This should perhaps include Z. Stauntoni, Benth., as the dis- 
tinctions pointed out in the * Prodromus’ do not hold good, except 
perhaps the degree of hairiness; and the Indian specimens of 
E. polystachya, Benth., represent both red- and white-flowered 
varieties. 
/ 6. Elsholtzia rugulosa, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Species facie E. blande, foliis minoribus crassioribus crebre 
obtusiuseuleque serrulatis, supra hispidulis simul rugulosis, 
subtus albido-tomentosis, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 
circiter 6 subtus elevatis, calyce dense albo-hispidulo, nuculis 
oblongis parum compressis. 
Soutu-west CHINA (Bourne!). Herb. Kew. 
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7. Elsholtzia Stauntoni, Benth. Lab. p. 161, et in DC. Prodr. 
xii. p. 160; Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 85 ; Franchet, Pl. 
David. p. 233 (forma puberula). 
Cuni: near Peking (Bretschneider!), Jehol (David ex 
Franchet), Nankau (Williams !), without locality (Staunton). 
Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
See remarks under E. polystachya, Benth. 
