652 oxi. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Melissa. 
2. M. flava, Benth. Lab. 394, in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 65, and in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 241; calyx nearly 4 in., corolla yellow, tube longer than the 
calyx. Wall. Cat. 2126. 
Nera, Wallich ; Kumaon, alt. 7600 ft., Madden, Strachey & Winterbottom. 
Buoran, Griffith. . 
I much doubt this being more than a variety of M. parviflora. It is, however, 
a larger plant. 
26. PERO WSILIA, Karel. 
Erect, branched, strong-scented, rigid, hoary and scurfy, dioecious under- 
shrubs. Leaves opposite, incised or crenate. WAorls small, distant, in simple 
or compound or panicled spikes, 2- or more-fld.; flowers small. Calyx short, 
terete; lips short, upper minutely 2-3-toothed, lower 2-toothed. Corolla 
2-lipped, tube exserted, with a ring of hairs within, lower lip oblong entire, 
upper broad spreading erect 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 lower fertile, erect, diverg- 
ing; 2 upper minute, imperfect; anther-cells linear, parallel. Disk swollen 
behind. Style-lobes acute. Nutlets pyriform, smooth, dry.—Species 4 or 5, 
Central Asiatic.—Genus of doubtful affinity. 
l. P. atriplicifolia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 261; densely clothed 
with white stellate scurf, leaves oblong-ovate or lanceolate crenate-serrate 
or incised, calyx hispid. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 589. 
WESTERN TIBET, Falconer; Lahul, Capt. Hay; Karakoram and Iskardo, alt. 
7500-10,200 ft., Clarke.—DistriB. Affghanistan and Beluchistan. 
A rigid herb, 2-3 ft., paniculately branched. Leaves 1-2 in., rigid, rugose. 
Whorls 2-6-üd. Calyx 4in. Corolla twice as long.—I doubt this being more than 
a form of the following. 
2. P. abrotanoides, Kiril. in Bull. Mosq. 1841, 15, t. 1; densely or 
sparsely clothed with white or grey stellate scurf, leaves linear-oblong 
incised or pinnatisect, calyx clothed with long cottony wool. Boiss. Ft. 
Orient. iv. 389. 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-13,000 ft., Thomson, &c.—DisTRIB. Affghanistan, 
Persia, Turcomania. ; 
A much-branched twiggy shrub or undershrub, 2—4 ft. high, woody below, with 
the habit of a Lavandula. Leaves 1-2 in., sometimes bipinnatisect, crenatures Or 
lobes or segments obtuse. 
27. MERIANDRA, Benth. 
Shrubs smelling of sage, hoary or woolly. Leaves opposite, coriaceous; 
oblong, crenulate, rugulose above. Whorls many, dense-fld., large and m 
terminal broad spikes or small and in panicled calkin-like spikes with 
closely imbricating bracts; flowers small. Calyx ovoid, upper lip concave, 
subentire; lower 2-fid; throat naked. Corolla-tube short, equally 4-fid ; 
lobes flat, upper entire or 2-fid. Stamens short, stout; 2 lower fertile erect 
distant, one or both of upper imperfect; anther-cells separate, stipitate, 
pendulous. Style 2-lamellate. Nutlets obovoid, smooth, brown.—The fol- 
lowing are the only species. 
_ 1. M, strobilifera, Benth. Lab. 188, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 29, and 
in DC. Prodr. xii. 262; floceulently woolly, spikes 4-angled with imbricat- 
ing appressed bracts. Wall. Cat. 1527; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 301. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; on dry rocks from Simla to Kumaon, 
alt. 5—6000 ft. 
