Dysophylla.] CXII. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 639 
From SIKKIM and Assam through: E. BENGAL to PENANG and SINGAPORE. 
Deccan PENINSULA, from Goa southwards. CEYLON.—DisTRIB. East to S. China, 
Borneo and the Philippines. 
A coarse annual, 1-2 ft.; hairs often shaggy, spreading. Leaves 1-3 in., acute 
or obtuse; petiole rarely 1 in. Spikes j-À in. diam., pedicelled ; whorls all confluent. 
Calyx not } in., enlarged in fruit. Corolla } in., usually pink ; tube slender, far 
exserted ; lobes hairy. Filaments very villous. Nutlets ellipsoid, nearly smooth.— 
Some very villous specimens from S. India and Ceylon have stouter spikes and white 
flowers, and may prove to belong to a distinct form. 
tt Leaves in whorls of three or four (rarely more). 
9. D. quadrifolia, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 30, Lab. 158, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 157 ; perennial, erect, tomentose, subsilky or pubes- 
cent, leaves 4 in a whorl, shortly petioled linear or linear-oblong acute or 
obtuse serrate or subentire, spikes elongate tomentose or pubescent, base 
often interrupted. Wall. Cat. 1539. D. velutina, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 
1588. D. linearis, Wall. Cat. 1540. D. rupestris, Dalz. in Hook. Kew 
Journ. iii. 120; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 208. Mentha quadrifolia, Ftowd. 
Hort. Beng. 44, and Fl. Ind. ii. 4. M. quaternifolia, Heyne in Herb. 
Rottl.; ? Roth Nov. Sp. 256. Chotellia sericea, Opiz & Corda in Flora, 
1830, 35. 
KnuasraA Mrs. ; on rocks by streams, alt. 3-6000 ft. CHITTAGONG, alt. 300 ft., 
Clarke, to TENASSERIM, Wallich. SouTH CANARA; on dry rocks, Malwar, Dai- 
Zell, &c., from the CiRcARS and CoNCAN to MYSORE and the Anamallay Hills, Heyne, 
&c.; Anamallays, Beddome. . 
A stout undershrub, 2-4 ft., with a woody rootstock; stem simple or branched. 
Leaves very variable, 1-4 by 1-3 in.; petiole very short. Spikes 4-8 in., 13 in. diam. 
Calyx sometimes glabrate, teeth triangular.—Order of chamomile (Dadzell). 
6. D. cruciata, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 30, and Cat. 1541 ; 
Lab. 158, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 157 ; hirsute, stem simple erect, leaves 3-6 
ina whorl sessile linear obtuse, margins revolute quite entire, spikes villous. 
D. tetraphylla, Wight Ic. t. 1444. Mentha quadrifolia, Don Prodr. 113. 
Dysophylla, Griff. It. Notes, 80, n. 1165. oe he! to Kemal 
LAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 5000 ft., Royle, &c., to 'epal, 
Walk. Rane Mae alt. 2-4000 ft.; Griffith, &c. NILGHIRI HILLS ; Wight. 
Stem 12-18 in., stout, strict. Leaves 1-1} in., suberect. Spikes sometimes 5 in., 
lin. diam.; whorls confluent. Calyx villous. Corolla-tube scarcely exserted, lobes 
glabrous. 
7. D. linearis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 157; annual, stem erect 
simple and leaves sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves sessile 4 in a whorl 
inear or linear-lanceolate obtuse, margins revolute entire or sparingly 
toothed, spikes short, calyx glabrous. 
Kuasta Hirrs, alt. 4-6000 ft., in swamps and rice-fields ; Mack, H. f. & T. 
larke. l l 
"Habit of D. cruciata, but nearly glabrous, with very different spikes, J-2 in. long 
and !-$ broad, and corolla and nutlets twice as large. 
Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 90, and Lab. 159, 
and in p rer ee 157; annual, erect, branched, glabrous or ver y 
Sparsely hairy, leaves 4—10 in a whorl linear quite entire or obscurely 
toothed, spikes sometimes whorled tomentose or villous, teet od r iting 
calyx stellately spreading. Wall. Cat. 1544; Thwaites Enum. 299, excl. 
syn. D. ramosissima, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 1543. D. Benthamiana, 
