610 OXIL LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Geniosporum. 
coloured; flowers small or minute. Calyx ovoid in flower, in fruit tubular, 
suberect or declinate, 5-toothed, upper tooth broadest, not decurrent; 
lateral free, or connate with the upper; lower short, free or connate. 
Corclla-tube short, upper lip 4-fid, lower declinate entire. Filaments free, 
toothless. Disk tumid, gibbous. Style-arms short, flattened. Nutlets 
ovoid or oblong, smooth or punctulate.—Species 6 or 7, Indian and African. 
1. G. strobiliferum, Wall. Cat. 2749; erect, puberulous, leaves 
petioled lanceolate coarsely serrate, floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting 
calyces erect, throat glabrous. Benth. Lab. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xn. 45 ; 
Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 462. Plectranthus coloratus, Don Prodr. 116.—Labiata, 
Griff. Itin. Notes, 82, n. 1192. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; in dry forests from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 1-5000 ft. 
Kaasia Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., common. d 
Stem 2-3 ft., obtusely angled. Leaves 2-5 by 14-2 in., base acute or rounded, 
narrowed into the petiole of 1-3 in. Spikes 2-5 in.; bracts white, deciduous. 
Flowers à in. long. Calyx pubescent, with 2 black glands on the lower lip. Corolla 
white with purple veins, hairy, lower lip narrow. Filaments exerted. Fruiting 
calyx tubular, pedicelled, 3 in. long, deeply pitted. Nuétlets ellipsoid, black, smooth, 
hispid towards the top. 
2. G. elongatum, Benth. Lab. 21, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45; erect 
or ascending, pubescent, stems very slender, leaves subsessile narrowly lan- 
ceolate, lower floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting calyces spreading, thron 
naked. Thwaites Enum. 236. Rhinanthus indica, Linn.; Burm. Fl. Ind. 
131, t..39, f. 1. 
NORTHERN CrRCARS; Jeypur Hills, Beddome. CEYLON ; Central Province, 10 
grassy places, alt. 4—6000 ft. . t 
Stem 1-2 ft., angles thickened. Leaves in distant pairs, 1-2 by 4—4 in., crena e 
serrate, base narrowed. Spikes 3-5 in.; bracts orbicular-ovate, subpersisten i 
flowers y in. long. Calyx hirsute. Corolla very small, hairy. Filaments exserte . 
Fruiting calyx 4 in. long, ovoid, strongly ribbed, pitted, lobes short. Nutlets ellips- 
oid, smooth. 
3. G. prostratum, Benth. in Pl. As. Rar. ii. 18, Lab. 21, 708, and in 
DC. Prodr. xii. 45; prostrate, stems slender glabrous pubescent or hirsute, 
leaves small sessile or petioled obovate-lanceolate or oblong or tines 
sparingly toothed, fruiting calyces spreading shorter than their pedicel P 
calyx-throat with a ring of hairs. Wall. Cat. 9751; Grah. Cat. Bomb. o 
148; Thwaites Enum. 231. Ocimum menthoides, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129. >. 
prostratum, Zinn. Mant. 166. O. macrostachyum, Poir. Suppl. i. 492 ; 
Benth. Lab.16. O. tenuiflorum, Heyne in Herb. Rottl., not of Benth. ? of 
Linn. Mentha ocimoides, Lamk. ‘Dict. iv. 103. Elsholtzia ocimoides, 
Pers. Syn. ii. 114. Lumnitzera prostrata, Spreng. Syst. ii. 687. Thymus 
indicus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129.—Mentha, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 158, t. 70, f. 2. 
' DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON; warmer part of 
the island. 
Stems many from a woody stock. Leaves in distant pairs, very variable, from 
+ by Zin. to 2 by 3 in. rather thick, base narrowed. Spikes elongate, slender; 
whorls close or distant; bracts ovate, acute, reflexed ; flowers minute, pedicelle . 
Calyx hairy, upper lip very variable in size, throat hairy. Corolla jg in» hairy- 
Filaments exserted. Fruiting calyx } in., subcampanulate, ribbed, tube not pitted, 
pubescent. Nutdets extremely minute, ellipsoid, smooth, naked. s 
Van. gracilis, Thwaites Enum. 237 ; stems very slender, 12-18 in. , leaves glabrous, 
narrower. G. gracile, Benth, Lab.21,and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45. —Deccan Peninsu? 
and Ceylon, 
