Eremostachys. ] oxi. LaBIATH, (J. D. Hooker.) 695 
panulate or upper lip broad membranous; teeth 5, equal, setaceous. 
Corolla-tube included, upper lip erect, hooded, bearded within; lower 
spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, upper filaments 
fimbriate or appendaged at the base; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 
Disk equal. Style-lobes equal or upper shorter. Nutlets obovoid, trique- 
trous, truncate, top densely hairy. Species 27, W. Asiatic. 
1. E. superba, Royle mss.; Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 381, Lab. 
637, and in DC. Prodr. xii.548; root-leaves pinnatisect, segments lobulate, 
the lower petioled, floral ovate acute, whorls many-fld. crowded in a very 
stout woolly spike, calyx subcampanulate, mouth truncate shortly broad] y 
9-lobed. Royle Ill. 303, t. 74. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Gurwhal, on the Kheree Pass, Royle. WESTERN PANJAB; 
Peshawur, Vicary. 
Stem 2 ft., strict, erect, unbranched, base 3 in. diam., softly hairy. Leaves, radical 
ovate in outline, 8-12 in. ; lobes or peduncles broad, obtuse ; petiole hirsute; cauline 
few, small, sessile, pinnatifid. Spike 6-10 in.; floral leaves erect, concave, covering 
the flowers, deciduous. Calyx à in., woolly. Corolla-tube included, galea } in., 
villous; lower lip broad, 3-lobed. 
2. E. Vicaryi, Benth in Aitch. Cat. Pl. Panjab & Scinde, 119; root- 
leaves pinnatisect, segments sessile pinnatifid, lower floral sessile oblong 
lobulate, whorls mauy-fld., at length distant, calyx campanulate scurfily 
tomentose, mouth truncate shortly 5-crenate, crenatures apiculate. 
WESTERN PANJAB; Peshawur, Vicary; Salt range, Jhelum, Aitchison.— 
DisTRIB. Beluchistan. , . . 
Stem 3-5 ft., very stout, simple or branched, eaves radical, 12-18 in., ovate in 
outline, segments or pinnules sessile glabrous; petiole stout, base woolly. Spikes 
8-10 in., rachis very stout. Calyx in. Corolla smaller than in Æ, superba, galea 
villous and fringed with white hairs. 
3. E. acanthocalyx, Boiss. Diagn. 2, iv. 49, and Fl. Orient. iv. 
795; root-leaves pinnatisect, segments pinnatifid or lobulate, lower 
petioled, floral short broad, whorls many.-fld bracts linear-lanceolate 
spinescent, calyx campanulate stellately pubescent, teeth spinescent. E. 
laciniata, Aitchison Cat. Pl. Panjab & Scinde, 118 (not of Bunge). l 
WESTERN PANJAB; Peshawur, Stewart.—DisrRIB. Beluchistan, Affghanistan. 
Stem 3-5 ft., very stout, simple or branched. Leaves, radical 6-12 in., qblone- 
ovate, hispid beneatb; floral very broad, sessile, concave, as long as the owers, 
deciduous ; petiole and racbis hirsute. Whorls 1-2 in. diam., lower distant ; bracts 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx ł in., mouth very shortly 5-lobed, lobes with à dorsa 
spreading spine } in. long. Corolla 1 in., tube exserted, galea pubescent, fringe 
with white hairs. 
50. ERIOPHYTON, Benth. 
Leaves rounded or rhomboid, toothed. 
. ig 7 large, 
Whorls 6-fld., axillary, crowded or the lower distant, flowers very ! 
yellow. Calyx campanulate, 10-nerved, membranous, 5-lobed to the middle , 
lobes finely acuminate. Corolla-tube included, upper lip very broad, galeate, 
i ich i ll with 3 rounded lobes. 
compressed, arching over the lower, which is sma lo 
i i d at the base; anthers conniving, 
Stamens 4, posterior filaments thickene d rs base; anther eer lares. 
villous, cells divaricate. Disk equal. 
irregularly broadly obovoid and triquetrous, truncate, g abrous. 
E. Wallichianum, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 63 (Wallichii), 
Lab, 638, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 549; Wall. Cat. 2070. 
A dwarf thickly woolly herb. 
