Nepeta. | CXII. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 663 
smooth, — N. rotundifolia (Marmoritis, Benth. Lab.) is founded on imperfect speci- 
mens of N. floccosa. 
27. N. graciliflora, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 65, Lab. 476, 
and in DC. Prodr. xii. 382; annual, glabrate or pubescent, stems many 
from the root very slender branched, leaves long-petioled ovate or ovate- 
cordate acute coarsely serrate or crenate, whorls very few-fld. axillary and 
forming lax panicles with capillary branches and peduncles and long pedi- 
celled flowers, bracts setaceous, calyx à in. pubescent or glabrous, upper 
teeth triangular or lanceolate awned, lower shorter setaceous, nutlets granu- 
late. Wall. Cat. 2123. 
PANJAB PLAINS, from Hurdwar to the Indus, and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA 
N. of it, ascending to 4000 ft. 
Nearly allied to N. ruderalis, but much more slender, with membranous coarsely 
crenate leaves, longer petioles and very lax few-fld. cymes, often on axillary long 
filiform peduncles, and nutlets more strongly tubercled. Calyx-teeth as long as the 
tube or shorter, variable in breadth. Corolla i in., pale rose. Nutlets oblong, 
35 in. long. 
** Corolla more than 3 inch long. 
28. N. Govaniana, Benth. Lab. 482, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 388; 
tall, erect, branched, finely pubescent, leaves large petioled ovate oblong or 
elliptic acute crenate, cymes few-fld. distant long-peduncled in axillary 
and terminal racemes, calyx } in. pedicelled puberulous, teeth triangular 
much shorter than the tube, corolla 1 in. yellow, nutlets broadly oblong. 
Dracocephalum Govanianum, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar, ii. 65, and 
Cat. 2197. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 8-11,000 ft. 
Stem 2-4 ft., 4-angled. Leaves 3-6 by 14-3 in., very variable, base acute rounded 
or cordate; petiole }-2 in. Racemes 3-6-fld.; bracts minute. Calyx straight, 
cylindric. Corolla yellow; tube long, very small, curved, greatly dilated above the 
middle. Nuélets 4, in. long, broadly obovoid-oblong, quite smooth. 
29. N. erecta, Benth. Lab. 482, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 388; tall, 
erect, branched, tinely pubescent, leaves petioled ovate or oblong acute, 
whorls many-fid. distant axillary or in terminal spikes, the lower usually 
peduncled, calyx 4 in. pubescent, teeth triangular much shorter than the 
tube, corolla 1-1 in. blue, nutlets broadly oblong. Dracocephalum erec- 
tum, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 380. N. macrantha, Led. 
Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. 
Foliage of N. Govaniana, and calyx t 
to spikes of interrupted sometimes many-fl 
being peduncled, and the flowers are blue.— 
but the nutlets are not linear. 
he same, but the inflorescence is contracted 
d. whorls with only a tendency to the lower 
It is very near the Siberian N. macrantha, 
finely pubescent, erect, branched, leaves 
-lanceolate subacute toothed or crenate, 
-minal spikes and shortly peduncled in 
‘ower leafy, j in. pobescent, teeth 
+ in. blue, tube very 
30. N. Clarkei, Hook. f.; 
Shortly petioled ovate-oblong or 
whorls dense-fld. distant in strict 
the lower axils, bracts lanceolate, lower leafy, calyx 
triangular acute much shorter than the tube, corolla 
slender, nutlets linear. 
; Western HIMALAYA; Kashmir, at Tilail, alt. 11,000 ft., 
500 ft., . - peti 
Stem strict, obtusely angled, Leaves 1-2 in., base acute or cordate; petiole 
and Kunylwan, alt. 
