856 LABIATA. XCVII. Motucetta. 
spiny at top. Corollas yellow; galea large, orbicular. The 
upper parts of the stems, leaves, calyxes, and galea of corolla 
clothed with very long loose white wool. 
Wallichs Eriophytum. Pl. 
Cult. For culture and propagation, see Phlòmis, p. 854. 
XCVII. MOLUCE'LLA (a dim. from Molucca slands, of 
which one of the species was supposed to be a native.) Lin. gen. 
no. 724. Schreb. gen. 979. Gærtn. fruct. 1. p. 320. t. 66. 
Juss. gen. p. 115. Benth. lab. p. 639.—Molácca, Tourn. 
Meench.—Chasmonia, Presl. 
Lin. syst. Didynàmia, Gymnospérmia. Calyx obliquely cam- 
panulate at the base, striated; limb ample, dilated, reticulately 
veined, with 5-10 mucrones or spines. Corolla with an inclosed 
tube, which is obliquely annulate inside; limb bilabiate ; upper 
lip erect, entire or emarginately bifid ; lateral lobes of lower lip 
erectish ; middle lobe spreading broad, obcordate. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, ascending, lower ones the longest; filaments naked 
at the base; anthers laterally pedicellate at the tops of the fila- 
ments, 2 celled: cells almost distinct, divaricate. Style about 
equally bifid at apex; stigmas nearly terminal. Achenia dry, 
acutely triquetrous, truncate at apex.—Annual quite glabrous 
herbs. Leaves petiolate, deeply crenated or cut; floral leaves 
similar to the cauline ones. Whorls axillary, many-flowered. 
Bracteas subulate, spinose. 
1 M. zrzvis (Lin. spec. 821.) limb of calyx large, membra- 
naceous, subpentagonal, with 5 very short mucrones or teeth. 
C. H. Native of Syria and Palestine. Sibth. et Smith, fl. 
grec. 6. p. 58. t. 566. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1852. Molücca 
le'vis. Riv. mon. t. 64. Moench, meth. p. 404.—Sabb. hort. 
rom. 3. t. 45. Plant quite glabrous in every part, smooth. Stem 
a little branched, floriferous almost from the base. Leaves on 
long petioles, roundish, coarsely crenated, rounded or cuneated 
at the base. Whorls usually 6-flowered, distant. Corolla white, 
shorter than the limb of the calyx, furnished with an almost 
complete membranaceous not pilose ring inside the throat. 
pm Molucca Balm. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1570. Pl. 1 to 
IE foot. 
2 M. spinosa (Lin. spec. 821.) limb of calyx short, coria- 
ceous, sub-bilabiate, with 8 spines. ©. H. Native of the region 
of the Mediterranean; as of Sicily, Naples, Palestine, Mount 
Parnassus, &c. Sibth. et Smith, fl. graec. 6. p. 54. t. 567. Lam. 
ill. t. 510.—Sabb. hort. rom. 3. t. 46. Chasmónia incisa, Presl. 
fl. sic. 37. Bot. reg. 1244. M. armata, Sieb. pl. exs. Molücca 
spinósa, Moench, meth. p. 404. Habit of M. le‘vis, but more 
rigid. Leaves smaller, with mucronulate teeth. Inflorescence and 
bracteas like those of M. i vis. Corolla exceeding the calyx a 
little, furnished with a pilose ring inside, cream-coloured. 
zr Molucca Balm. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1596. Pl. 11 to 
2 feet. 
Cult. The seeds of these plants should be reared on a hot-bed 
early in autumn or spring ; and when the plants are of sufficient 
size they should be planted in separate pots, and kept under 
glass, until the middle of May, when they may be planted out of 
doors in any warm dry situation, where they will flower and seed 
freely ; for if the seeds are sown out in the open ground in 
spring, the plants in this case come into flower so late that they 
seldom, if ever, ripen seed. 
XCVIII. HOLMSKIO'LDIA (named in memory of Theo- 
dore Holmskiold ; author of Coriphaei clavarias Ramarias com- 
plectentes, 1 vol. fol. ; Copenhagen, 1790, and other works.) 
Retz, obs. 6. p. 31. Benth. lab. p. 642. Hastingia, Smith 
exot. bot. 2. t. 80.—Platinium, Juss. ann. mus. 7. p. 76. : 
Lin. syst. Didynamia, Gymnospérmia. Calyx with a very 
XCVIII. HoLMSKIOLDIA. 
XCIX. HYMENOCRATER. C. AcnynosprEnMUM. 
short tube and a large subrotately campanulate, membranaceous, 
veiny, almost entire limb. Corolla with an elongated, incurved 
tube, which is naked inside, a subdilated throat, and a sub-bila- 
biate limb; upper lip bifid, with erectly spreading segments; 
lateral segments of the lower lip small, reflexed : middle one 
ovate, spreading. Stamens 4, ascending, didynamous, lower ones 
the longest and exserted ; upper filaments dilated a little at the 
base ; anthers 2-celled: cells parallel. Style nearly entire, 
or the upper lobe is very short, stigmatiferous at apex. Ovarium 
bipartite, with deeply bifid, scarcely bipartite lobes. Achenia 
rugose, rather fleshy.? Shrub with the habit of Verbendcee, 
Allied to Molucélla by the calyx ; and to Melissinee in the co- 
rola; and to the tribes Prasiec and Ajugoidee. 
1 H. sancurnea (Retz. l. c.) kh.S. Native of Hindostan 
and Silhet, &c. Hastingia cocci- 
nea, Smith, l. c. Platinium rù- 
brum, Juss. l. c. Shrub with 
divaricate, tetragonal, glabrous, 
often tubercled branches. Leaves 
petiolate, ovate, acuminated, 
hardly toothed, somewhat trun- 
cate at the base, 2-4 inches 
long, glabrous, green on both 
surfaces. Racemules axillary, 
scarcely longer than the peti- 
oles, constantly composed of a 
few 2-4-flowered whorls. Calyx 
red or blood coloured. Corolla 
red. Genitals exserted. (fig. 87.) 
Bloody -calyxed Holmskiol- 
dia. Fl.? Clt. 1796. Shrub. 
Cult. Any light rich earth, or 
a mixture of equal parts of loam, 
sand, and peat, will suit this shrub; and young cuttings will be 
readily rooted in the same kind of soil in heat, with a hand-glass 
placed over them. 
FIG. 87. 
XCIX. HYMENOCRA'TER (from inv, hymen, a mem- 
brane; and xparno, krater, a cup ; in allusion to the large mem- 
branous calyx.) Fisch. et Meyer, ind. sem. hort. petrop. 1835. 
p. 39. 
Lin. syst. Didyndmia, Gymnospérmia. Calyx witha short 
13-nerved tube, and a large membranous spreading 5-cleft limb ; 
lobes ovate. Corolla with an exserted tube and a sub-bilabiate 
limb ; upper lip bipartite ; lower lip tripartite, having the middle 
segment large and emarginate. Stamens inclosed, didynamous, 
ascending under the upper lip; cel's of anthers divaricate. 
Stigma bilabiate. Achenia dry, subovate, glabrous, tubercled. 
This genus comes near to Réylea and Holmskióldia, but differs 
from the first in the quinquefid limb of the calyx, bipartite 
upper lip of corolla, as well as in the divaricate cells of anthers; 
and from the latter in the spreading limb of calyx, exserted co- 
rolla, bipartite upper lip and tubercled achenia ; and from Molu- 
célla in the form of the corolla. : 
1 H. sirUMINOsus (Fisch. et Meyer, 1l. c.) h. F. Native 
of the North of Persia, on arid hills. A humble glabrous shrub, 
having leaves much like those of Népeta Pannónica, viscid, an 
smelling of bitumen. Cymes axillary, 5-7-flowered, crowded, 
furnished with oblong, almost quite entire floral leaves. Throat 
of calyx closed by villi. Corollas violaceous, painted with white 
lines. Achenia black. 
Bituminous Hymenocrater. Shrub humble. 
Cult. For culture and proyagation, see Phlòmis, p. 854. 
C. ACHYROSPE/RMUM (from axvpov, achyron, chaff; = 
cTtpua, sperma, a seed; so called because the achenia ar 
