Calamintha.] CXI. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 651 
Fl. Orient. iv. 578. C. Clinopodium, var. umbrosa, Hook. f. in Thwaites 
Enum. 939. C. repens, Benth. in DC. l. c. 233. C. nepalensis, Fisch. & 
Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1845, 53, n. 521. Clinopodium repens, Rozh. 
Hort. Beng. 44, and Fl. Ind. iii. 13; Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 66; 
Wall. Cat. 2130. Thymus repens, Don Prodr. 113. Melissa umbrosa, 
Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. ii. 63; Benth. Lab. 392; Wight Ic. i. 1447. M. 
repens, Benth. Lab. 399. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000 ft. Kasra 
Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft. WESTERN GHATS; from the Concan to the Anamallay 
Sus. CEYLON ; at Newera Elia,—DiISTRIB. Affghanistan, Caucasus, China, Japan, 
ava. 
A very common and variable Indian plant with difficulty distinguishable in some 
states from C. Clinopodium, Wallich's Nepal specimens being as robust, and with equally 
long bracts, and calyx almost as large; but the habit is usually decumbent or pro- 
cumbent, and more slender, the bracts shorter, calyces only 3—-} in., their upper-lip 
Segments shorter and more recurved. I am quite unable to distinguish C. repens from 
C. umbrosa; a diminutive form of it has very small calyces with short broad upper 
teeth sometimes strongly recurved. C. nepalensis is a very stout suberect Kashmir 
form with numerous often close-set and sometimes Spicate whorls, short bracts and 
short calyx-teeth. 
3. C. longicaulis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 234; erect or decum- 
bent, softly hairy, whorls lax-fid. subsecund, bracts very minute, calyx- 
teeth short subequal in length not } the length of the tube. Thymus 
Plperitus & origanifolius, Don Prodr. 119. Clinopodium longicaule, Benth. 
T Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 66; Wall. Cat. 2131. Melissa longicaulis, Benth. 
ab. 395. 
CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich. . 
Stem 2-3 ft., slender, woody below. Leaves à in., quite entire or with a few 
crenatures, Whorls towards the ends of the branches, 2-6-fld. ; bracts shorter than 
the calyx. Calyx 4 in., hispid, glabrate or hairy within, teeth short. Corolla violet, 
tube slender, twice as long as the calyx.—A very distinct plant. 
25. MELISSA, Linn. 
Erect branched herbs. Leaves opposite, crenate. Whorls axillary, 
secund, lax-fld. Calyx 13-ribbed; lips small; upper flattish, 3-toothed; 
lower 2-toothed. Corolla-tube recurved and ascending; upper lip erect ; 
ower flat, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, arching and meeting under the 
upper lip; anther-cells at length divaricate. Sty/e-lobes subequal, subulate. 
A uHete narrowly obovoid, smooth, dark.— Species 2 or 3, S. European and 
Slatic, 
. l. M. parviflora, Benth. Lab. 394, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 65, and 
m DO. Prodr. xii. 241; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, calyx iin. 
corolla white, tube very short, Wall. Cat. 9825. Geniosporum axillare, 
Benth. in. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 18; Wall. Cat. 2752. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Gurwhal, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft., 
and Mishmi, Kuasra Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft.—DISTRIB. Java. . 
Pubescentorglabrate. Stem tall, erect, angles hirsute. Leaves 1-4 in., ame ads 
rounded or cordate ; petiole }-1 in., slender. Whorls numerous, few- or many -fld. ; 
flowers pedicelled. Calya-teeth very variable in length of the acute points ; "d ^ 
narrow.  Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx.— Very near M. officinalis, k vor 
has its Eastern limit in Eastern Persia, but the leaves are more acute and the ower 
calyx-teeth are broader and shorter, but these are variable characters in the European 
piant, 
