619 CXII. LABIATE. (J.D. Hooker) | [Aerocephalus. 
Throughout Inpra from Kashmir to Bhotan in the Himalaya, ascending to 
5000 ft.; and in hilly districts from the Khasia Mts. to Cape Comorin and Pegu. 
(Not seen from Ceylon or the Malay Peninsula.)—Di1sTR15. Muneypoor, Burma, Java, 
Borneo. 
Stem 6-12 in., simple or branched from the base; branches ascending or 
decumbent. Leaves }-1 in., ovate or lanceolate, coarsely serrate, narrowed into the 
petiole. Heads 4-3 in. diam., rarely cylindric, often with two spreading leaves at 
the base ; flowers imbricating, suberect, 4 in. long, pale purple. 
2. A. axillaris, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 48; stems and leaves 
beneath pubescent, leaves small lower oblong upper orbicular many-nerved, 
heads axillary sessile. 
ASSAM ; Jenkins, Mack. . 
Stem slender, erect, simple, a foot long and upwards. Leaves in distant pairs, 
lower $ in. upper 3 in. ; nerves very strong beneath, forming salient parallel ribs. 
Heads 4-} in. diam, —A very singular plant, with the habit and ribbed leaves of a 
Spermacoce ; the corollas have fallen away. 
6. MOSCHOSMA, Reichb. 
Herbs, annual or perennial. Whorls 6—10-Hd., secund, in axillary and 
terminal panicled racemes, flowers very minute; bracts small. Calyx ovoid 
or campanulate, 5-toothed, fruiting declinate, upper or 3 upper teeth largest, 
margins not decurrent; throat naked. Corol/a-tube very short; upper lip 
shortly 4-fid ; lower entire with 4 flat lobes. Stamens 4, declinate, filaments 
free, toothless; anther-cells confluent. Style clavate-capitate, tip 2-fid. 
Nutlets compressed, smooth.—Species 6, Tropical Asiatic, African and 
Australian. 
M. polystachyum, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 13, Lab. 24, 
708, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 48; nearly glabrous, stem acutely 4-angled, 
leaves long-petioled ovate long-acuminate coarsely serrate, racemes veTy 
slender. Reichb. in Wall. Cat. 2711; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 204. Ocı- 
mum tenuifiorum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129, excl. sun. Rumph., not of Linn. O. 
polystachyum, Linn. Mant. 567; Roxb. Fl. Ind.iii.18. Plectranthus parvi- 
florus, Br. Prodr. 506, not of Willd. P. micranthus, Spreng. Syst. m 
Wet places in BENGAL ; Dacca, Clarke. DECCAN PENINSULA, BURMA and 
TENASSERIM. CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Java, China, Philippine Islands, Trop. Africa 
and Australia. 
À very slender much-branched annual glabrate or puberulous herb, 2-3 ft.; angles 
of stem often scabrid. Leaves 1-2 in., very membranous, base cuneate, rounded or 
subcordate, quite entire, narrowed into ‘a filiform petiole as long as the blade. 
Racemes 3-6 in.; peduncles and rachis filiform ; whorls about 6-fld.; bracts minute, 
caducous ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Flowers 7, in. long. Fruiting calyz 
4-5 in. Corolla flesh-coloured, — Nutlets black, smooth, ellipsoid. 
7. ORTHOSIPHON, Benth. 
Under-shrubs or shrubs. Whorls 6- or fewer-fld., racemose. Calyx 
ovoid, campanulate or tubular, fruiting deflexed, upper tooth broad mem- 
branous, margins decurrent on the tube, lateral and lower distinct or shortly 
connate, usually subulate. Corolla-tube often slender, straight or incurved ; 
upper lip 3—4-fid ; lower entire, concave. Stamens 4, declinate, filaments free, 
toothless; snther-cells confluent. Disc usually gibbous. Style with 9 
