LABIATE. 489 



H'"-2'" long ; corolla exserted. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., common in savannahs and 

 ravines ; [Mexico ! to Venezuela ! and Bolivia !]. 



**** Flowers in contracted cymes, subsessile or pedicellate. 



13. H. suaveolens, Poit. Stout, pilose ; leaves petioled, ovate or inferior cordate, 

 duplicate-serrate or subsiuuate, floral minute, setaceous ; heads Jew-flowered, shortly pe- 

 duncled, or subsessile, racemose-paniculate, and axillary ; calyx subsessile or very shortly 

 pedicellate, 10-costate : teeth subulate-setaceous, at leugth shorter than the tube, rigid, 

 sprcadiug-erect. — SI. t. 101. /. 2. Br. Jam. t. 18./. 3 : analyt. Jacq. Amer. Pict. t 163. 

 JDesc. Fl. 6. t. 448. — Ballota, L. H. Plumieri, Poit. — Very variable, fragrant ; heads 

 5-2-ilowered ; calyx at length 5"'-2'" long; corolla pale-blue, shortly exserted. — Hab. 

 Jamaica !, all coll., a weed, in gravelly soil ; Dominica !, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Or., in savannahs, 

 and cultivated as a medical plant ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Brazil ! ; East Indies !]. 



14. H. pectinata, Poit. Virgate, puberulous or glabrescent ; leaves petioled, ovate, 

 unequally crenate-serrate (or serrate), hoary-pubesceut beneath or glabrescent, floral seta- 

 ceous ; flowers one-sided in contracted, short, gyrate, recurved cymes : cymes racemose or 

 paniculate ; calyx shortly pedicellate, 10-striate, subequal ; tube shortly carnpanulate, 

 densely villous at the truncate throat -. teeth setaceous, shorter than the tube, suberect. — 

 Ann. Mus. 7. t. 30.— Nepeta, L.- 6'-2' high; cymes 2"'-4"' diam.; calyx-tube 1'" long; 

 flowers variegated-whitish. — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., a common weed, in arid soil ; An- 

 tigua!, Lane, Wullschh, Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild.; [Cuba! and Mexico! to 

 Uruguay ! ; trop. Africa!]. 



15. H. verticillata, Jura. Virgate, paniculate, usually glabrescent; leaves shortly 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, serrate, floral setaceous or abortive ; whorls 

 sessile, in interrupted racemes, inferior axillary ; calyx pedicellate, equal : tube shortly 

 carnpanulate, glabrous ; teeth ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the tube, erect. — Jacq. Ic. Par. 

 t. 113. — Stachys patens, Sw. — 8-1' high ; whorls at length 4"'-5'" diam. ; calyx 1'" long ; 

 flowers small, whitish. — Hab. Jamaica !, Mac/., March, Wilt., common ; [Haiti, S.Thomas !, 

 Mexico ! to Uruguay !]. 



5. MICROMERIA, Benth. 



Calyx subequal, 5-dentate, 13-nerved. Corolla 2-lipped : tube subincluded : lobes flat. 

 Stamens didynamous, distant, ascending : anther-cells 2. — Whorls axillary or racemose. 



16. W.. obovata, Benth. Shrubby, diffuse, pimpled and pubescent ; leaves small, 

 obovate or ovate-roundish, revolnte at the margin, entire, hoary beneath ; whorls 2-4- 

 flowered ; calyx subsessile : teeth short, subulate-lanceolate, bluntish ; corolla half as long 

 again as the calyx; anthers included: cells parallel; style exserted. — Colla Ripiil. t. 25. 

 — Xenopoma, W. Satureja viminea, L. Zygia aromatica, Besv. — 1'— 12' high; leaves 

 3"'-5'", white corolla 3'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, M'Nab, March, in the higher mountains ; 

 [Cuba!]. 



17. M. Brownei, Benth. Herbaceous, delicate, procumbent, glabrous (except the 

 ciliate petioles) or glabrescent ; leaves deltoid-roundish, obtusely few-serrate, whorls 

 2-flowered, ebracteolate ; calyx pedicellate, hairy at the throat : teeth deltoid, bluntish ; 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx ; anthers included : cells parallel. — Mart. Fl. Bras. 22. 

 t. 32./ 1. — Thymus, Sw. — Habit of Veronica hederafolia ; leaves 3"'-5'" diam.: petiole of 

 variable length ; pedicels filiform, about as long as the flower ; corolla 4"'-5'" long, pur- 

 plish-white. — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll.; [Florida! to Brazil !]. 



6. SALVIA, Z. 



Calyx and corolla 2-lipped. Stamens 2 -. filaments jointed with the elongated, transverse 

 connective, one branch of which is ascending, terminated by one anther-cell, the other 

 usually descending, bearing the rudiment of the second cell. — Whorls racemose or pani- 

 culate ; in the West Indian species the corolla is devoid of an inner hair-ring, and the 

 connective is linear to the end of the descending branch. (Calosphace). 



