184 SURG.-MAJ. J. E. T. AITCHISON ON THE FLORA OF 
It creeps very close to the ground, and has large yellow flowers, 
with the hood rose-coloured, or sometimes purplish. 
537 (1879). Scutellaria, multicaulis, Boiss. 
Hariáb district, at 7500 to 8000 feet. 
A low stiff shrub. Flowers with long elegant tubes of a light 
yellow, ending in a bright purple hood. The flowers grow erect, 
and thus give great character to the plant. 
94, 190, 304, —777 (1879). Phlomis lamiifolia, Royle.—P. bracteosa, 
Royle. 
Kuram and Hariáb districts, very profuse on the grassy slopes 
of streams, at an altitude of from 8000 to 12,000 feet. 
This was the plant in which the natives packed the snow to 
enable them to carry it down the Kuram valley during the hot 
weather. 
16(1879). Eremostachys acanthocalyx, Boiss. 
70, 82,2449, 486 (1879). E. speciosa, Rupr. 
449. Teucrium Scordium, Linn. 
Near Kuram, on the sides of ditches and moist fields; common. 
444. T.($ Polium) incanum, Aitchison &Hemsley, n. sp. Aff. T. Stock- 
siani, a quo differt ramis foliisque brevissime incano-tomentosis, floribus 
paucioribus majoribus. 
Suffruter densissime ramosus, usque ad 2 ped. altus, undique brevissime 
incano-tomentosus, ramis gracilibus, internodiis quam folia brevioribus, 
interdum brevissimis. Folia subsessilia, crassa, obovato-oblonga, 4-6 
lineas longa, basi cuneata, apice rotundata, parte superiore crenata. 
Flores eburnei, circiter 8 lineas longi, pauci in apices ramulorum con- 
gesti; calyx intus extusque pilosulus, latus, subinflatus, leviter obliquus, 
dentibus fere zqualibus, quam tubum paullo brevioribus; corolla calyce 
subduplo longior; staminibus exsertis. 
Between Thal and Badish-khél, growing gregariously on the low 
conglomerate hills, at an altitude not above 3500 feet. A small 
woody shrub about 2 feet in height; flowers a dull white. 
MONOCHLAMXDEZ. 
NYCTAGINEX. 
479. Boerhaavia diffusa, Linn. 
From Thal to Kuram, on hot exposed stony localities; not 
common. 
