632 CXII. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pogostemon. 
Stem 3-5 ft., rather flexuous. Leaves 3-5 in., very membranous; petiole short 
or long. Spikes 4-8 in.; whorls å in. diam.; bracts very variable, shorter or longer 
than the calyces, regularly secund and imbricate. Calyx $-j in. long, membranous ; 
teeth variable in length. —P. comosus, Mig., of Java, is very near this. 
2. P. Gardneri, Hook. f.; erect, stout, villous, leaves long-petioled ovate 
inciso-crenate, base cuneate, whorls globose in stout dense spikes, bracts 
oblong-lanceolate membranous ciliate, calyx-teeth short broad ciliate. 
NILGHIRI Mts.; Wynaad, Wight, Gardner. . 
Very near P. paniculatus, but much stouter, more villous, leaves longer petioled, 
whorls denser, -bracts much narrower, not iso unilateral and regularly secund and 
imbricate, and calyx shorter with broader teeth. 
3. P. plectranthoides, Desf. in Ann. Mus. ii. 156, t. 6; shrubby, 
hoary-pubescent, leaves petioled ovate acute doubly-toothed or -serrate, 
whorls subsecund crowded in large stout spikes, bracts ovate glandular - 
exceeding the hirsute calyx, calyx-teeth shortly triangular-lanceolate ciliate. 
Wall. Cat. 1530; Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 31, Lab. 153, and in 
DC. Prodr. xii. 151; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 207; Bot. Mag.t. 3238, 
P Origanum benghalense, Burm. Fl. Ind. 128, t. 38, f. 3. ? O. indicum, Roi 
Nov. Sp. 265. Mentha secunda, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 44. ? M. fruticosa, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 6 (not of his drawings). 
WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Nepal to Simla, alt. 1-5000 ft. LOWER BENGAL and 
Pans ; Patna and top of Parusnath, J. D. H., &c. The Concan, CANARA and the 
IRCARS. 
A large bush ; branches round, often dark purple. Leaves 3-6 in., longer than the 
petiole. Panicle usually elongate, whorls distant or confluent, silkily villous. Ca en 
subcylindrie, 4 in., silky, ciliate. Corolla pink or white.— Roxburgh's description » 
Mentha fruticosa agrees with this, but his drawing represents a different plant wit 
glabrous filaments. 
4. P. villosus, Benth. Lab. 153, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 152; stout, 
erect, villous all over, leaves large long-petioled ovate acute crenulate or su : 
sinuate and crenate, whorls crowded in cylindric panicled stout spikes not 
secund, bracts ovate equalling the villous calyx, calyx silky or villous, teet 
shortly lanceolate. ? Elscholzia villosa, Rowb. Fl. Ind. iii. 4. 
SILHET; Wallich. 
There are two forms of this in Herb. Wallich, both with leaves 5-7 in. long and 
2-4 broad; one is more robust with exactly ovate finely crenulate leaves; t y 
otheris more villous, and has broader sinuate and obscurely crenate leaves, and muc 
more numerous denser and shorter branched panicles. In both the whorls form con- 
tinuous cylindric spikes 2-3 in. long and 4 in. diam. Calyx 3 in., sessile, narrow. 
5. P. purpurascens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 337; erect 
branched, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves long-petioled large 
membranous ovate or ovate-lanceolate sinuate or cut and toothed or crenate, 
base narrowly cuneate, whorls dense-fld. globose secund continuous | OF 
separate in long peduncled hirsute spikes, bracts narrow falcate equalling 
the calyx ciliate, calyx tubular, teeth long-subulate ciliate. Dalz. § Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 207. 
The Concan and Canara; Law, &c. 
H^bit and villosity of P. Gardneri, but the calyx-teeth are much longer and more 
slender. Stem 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 in. long. Spikes sometimes as long. 
Calyx } in. long. Corolla white, with purple upper lip.—Probably a large form of 
P. parviflorus. 
6. P. parviflorus. Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 31, Lab. 154, and 
