Teucrium. | CI. LABIAT# (BAKER). 501 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 371; 7. abyssinicwm, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. 
Prod. xii. 586. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Province of Urahut, in damp meadows, Schimper, 
1766! and without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 188ter ! 
Also in Europe and Western Asia to the Himalaya. 
2. T. Polium, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 591. A perennial 
herb, densely branched from the crown of the root, with wiry stems 
densely clothed with white tomentum. Leaves crowded, sessile, small, 
oblong, with crispate-crenate revolute edges. Flowers aggregated in 
dense globose terminal heads; bracts small. Calyx densely villous, 
% in. long; teeth small, ovate. Corolla uwice as long as the calyx.— 
Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 99. 
Nile Land. Somaliland; Serrut Mountains, near Maid, 5800 ft., Hildebrandt, 
1450! Adda Galla, James & Thrupp ! 
Also in South Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. 
43. AJUGA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 1222. 
Calyx-tube campanulate, 10-ribbed: teeth 5, equal. Corolla-tube 
included or exserted; limb bilabiate; upper lip very short; lower 
longer, 3-lobed, deflexed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate, usually 
protruding beyond the upper lip of the corolla; lower pair longest ; 
anther-cells divergent, finally confluent. Disk equal or oblique. Ovary 
shortly 4-lobed ; style subequally forked at the tip. Nucules obovoid, 
reticulated, obliquely attached.—Annual or perennial herbs, often 
Stoloniferous. Leaves usually crenate. Whorls 2- or many-flowered, 
axillary or forming terminal racemes bracteate by much reduced 
leaves. 
Species about 30, concentrated in the extra-tropical regions of the Old World. 
1. A. bracteosa, Wall. Cat. Vo. 2032. A perennial herb, not 
stoloniferous, much branched at the base, with ascending hairy stems, 
3-12 in. long. Leaves usually in many pairs, the upper obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, sessile, entire or crenate, slightly hairy, the lower oblong, with 
a cuneate base and obscure petiole. Whorls many-tlowered, produced 
from the axils of the leaves all the way down the stem ; pedicels short, 
hairy. Calyx } in. long; teeth ovate-lanceolate, as long as the tube. 
Corolla blue, twice as long as the calyx-tube, straight, slender.— Benth. 
in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 59; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 371; Giirke 
in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 342; Britten in Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 
396. A. remota, Benth. in Wall. Cat. No. 2033, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
i. 59, and in DC. Prod. xii. 597; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. 1. 208; 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl]. Aethiop. 121. 
Var. crenata, Baker, Stem and leaves more hairy. 
crenata, Hochst. ex Benth. in DC. Prod. xii, 597. A. remota, var. canescens, Benth. le. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Marakhat Valley, near Sagaueiti, 6800-7100 ft., Schwein- 
Surth & Riva, 834! Abyssinia: Tigre ; Adowa, Schimper, 325. Debra Sina, near 
Leaves more crenate.—A. 
