452 CII. LABIATH (BAKER). [ Mentha. 
2. M. Pulegium, /inn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 175. A peren- 
nial, with slender prostrate much-branched pubescent or nearly glabrous 
stems. Leaves small, petioled, ovate, crenate. Flowers in distant 
globose axillary whorls. Calyx ;', in. long; upper teeth deltoid, lower 
lanceolate. Corolla-tube shortly exserted; lobes small, oblong.—A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 187; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 364. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 141!  Mai-Samia, near 
Adowa, Rohlfs & Stecker. Shire, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 13! Addi-Shoa, 3500 ft., 
Schimper, 754; Atuba, Steudner, 1406 ! 
Also in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. 
24. MICROMERIA, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. ii. 1188. 
Calyx-tube cylindric, 13-15-nerved; teeth acute, nearly equal. 
Corolla-tube straight; limb short, bilabiate; upper lip erect, nearly 
flat; lower patent, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending ; 
anthers 2-celled. Disk equal or reduced to an anticous gland. Style 
bifid at the apex. Nucules small, ovoid or oblong.—Herbs or under- 
shrubs, Leaves entire or crenate. Whorls axillary or crowded into a 
terminal spicate panicle. Flowers small. 
Species 60, spread widely in both hemispheres. 
Leaves rigid, entire. 
Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate . . 1. M. biflora. 
Leaves lanceolate . . . . . . . 2. M, longiflora. 
Leaves membranous, crenate 3. M. abyssinica. 
1. M. biflora, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 220. A much-branched 
perennial herb, with slender pubescent stems }—1 ft. long. Leaves 
obscurely petioled, rigid, entire, finely pubescent, ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, }-4 in. long. Cymes 2-6-flowered, sessile or shortly 
peduncled in the axils of many produced leaves. Calyx 4—} in. long ; 
tube cylindric, pubescent, strongly ribbed; teeth small, lanceolate- 
deltoid. Corolla-tube shortly exserted, dilated at the throat.— Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 650; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 365. J. punc- 
tata, Benth. 1. c.; Britten in Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 396. JL. ovata, 
Benth. 1. c. 219. MM. Schimperi, Vatke in Linnea, xxxvii. 326. M/. 
Purtschelleri, Giirke in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 365. Satwreva 
ovata and S, punctata, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000-10,000 ft., Mann, 
1292! 1981! Johnston, 39! on open dry plains, Kalbreyer, 115! 
Wile Land. Nubia: Coast-land, Bent! Erkowit Mountain, near Suakin, 
Schweinfurth, 225! Eritrea: Mount Bizen, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1863 ! 
Keren, Steudner, 1429! Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 12! 45! 
1859! Quartin-Dillon; Province of Wojerat, Quartin-Dillon! Samen; Dugua, 
Steudner, 1435 ; Debra Eski, Schimper, 156 ; Ghaba, Steudner, 1430 ; Jaja, 6000 ft., 
Schimper, 314; Amba Sea, 7400 ft., Schimper, 381; Godofelassi, Rohlfs & Stecker i 
Sassidolosatscha, Rohlfs & Stecker ; near Janausa, 8400-9400 ft., Schimper; neat 
Memsah, Quartin-Dillon; Begemeder; near Anadehr, 7800 ft., Schimper, 576! 
Guna Mountain, Steudner, 1433, Urahut district, 9700-10,400 ft., Schimper, 591! 
