Brunella.] CXII. LABIATE, (J. D. Hooker.) 671 
4-11,000 ft. Kasra Mrs., alt. 4-6000. NILGHIRI and TRAVANCORE Mrs., alt. 
6-8000 ft.— Disrris. N. Temp. Zone, Andes, Australia. 
Rootstock creeping. Stem 4-12 in., erect or ascending. Leaves 1-2 in., upper 
sessile. Spikes 1-3 in., cylindric; bracts ovate-cordate, ciliate, edges often purple. 
Flowers dimorphic, larger 2-sexual, smaller female. Calya-teeth very variable, awned 
or not. Corolla 4—3 in., purple or white. 
Var. vulgaris; glabrous or sparingly hairy.—Himalaya Mts. 
Var. hispida, Benth. in DC. l. c.; hispidly hairy. B. hispida, Benth. in 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 66. B. ovata, Wall. Cat. 2133.—Sikkim, Khasia and 
Nilghiri Mts. 
34. MARRUBIUM, Linn. 
Perennial tomentose or woolly herbs. Whorls axillary, flowers small. 
Calyx tubular, 5-10-nerved; teeth 5-10, equal, short, subspinescent. 
Corolla short, tube naked or annulate within, upper lip erect, lower 
spreading, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, included; anthers glandular, cells 
diverging. Style-lobes short, obtuse. Nutlets obtuse.—Species 30, tem- 
perate and warm regions of the Old World. 
1. M. vulgare, Linn.; tal, robust, shortly woolly, leaves petioled 
ovate or orbicular crenate rugose, whorls axillary many and dense-fid., 
calyx-teeth 10 subulate spreading and recurved, throat woolly. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. xii. 153; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 703; Reichb. Ie. FI. Germ. 
t. 1224, f. 1. M. propinquum, Benth. in DC. l. c. (the Kashmir plant). 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 5—8000 ft., Falconer.— DISTRIB. 
Westward through Europe and N. Africa. 
Stem 2-4 ft., leafy. Leaves 4-1} in. diam., base rounded or cordate or cuneate, 
leathery, wrinkled ; petiole 1-3 in. Whorls depressed, villous. Calyx }-} in. 
coriaceous; teeth often hooked at the tip. Corolla } in., white, tube slender, upper 
lip long, 2-fid. Nutlets q; in., smooth. 
2. M. lanatum, Benth. Lab. 587, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 448; dwarf, 
clothed with long soft white wool, leaves petioled rounded lobed and 
crenate or 4-pinnatifid, whorls in a dense terminal cylindric or oblong 
thickly woolly spike, calyx-teeth 5 acicular spreading and recurved, throat 
naked. Mollucella Marrubiastrum, Steph. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mose. ui. 8; 
Ledeb. Ic. Pl. Fl. Ross. Alt. t. 150.  Lagopsis incana, Bunge Monog. 
olucc. ined. 
NORTHERN 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 15-16,000 ft.; Thomson, Henderson. 
GURWHAL ; at Shelshil, alt. 16,000 ft., Strachey § Winterbottom. DisTRIB. Turkestan 
and Altai Mts. . . 
Stems many, ascending from the stout rootstock, stout, 3-6 in. | Leaves very thick, 
3-1 in. diam. ; petiole stout, as long or shorter. Spikes 1-2 in., à in. diam. ; owers 
immersed in wool; bracts linear or setaceous. Calyz-tube 3 in., membranous, ee 1 
as long, pungent, Corolla very small, upper lip short, entire. Nutlets j, in. long, 
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35. CRANIOTOME, Reichb. 
i Flowers 
A perennial erect branched herb. Leaves long-petioled. 
minute. in slender lax-fld. panicled racemes. Calyx ovoid, fraiting globose, 
equally 5-toothed; throat constricted, villous within. Corolla, upper lip 
minute, concave, entire; lower longer, spreading, 3-fid. Stamens asc di g 
under the upper lip; anther-cells didymous, at length diverging. y 
subequally 2-fid. JVutlets very minute, subglobose, smooth. 
C. versicolor, Reichb. lconogr. i. 39, t. 54; Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. 
