696 oxi. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriophyton. 
ALPINE CENTRAL Himataya; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 15-17,000 ft., 
alae i leaves, bracts 
Rootstock stout; stem 4-6 in., stout, simple, naked below ; wool on leaves, bra 
and calyx 1 in. long, white, very soft, hardly silky. Leaves very close set, ar ron 
spreading or deflexed, 14-2 in. diam., base broadly cuneate, nerves ia S cles 
Bracts 1-1} in. broad, broadly cuneate, membranous, deeply toothed ; brace 
filiform. Calyx hidden amongst the leaves, 1 in. long ; lobes triangu ar, wv 
pointed, Corolla 14 in., galea pubescent. Nutlets $ in. diam.—A very ME re lets 
Labiate, which should be placed near Lamium, from which the broad galea and n 
distinguish it, 
51. GOMPHOSTEMMA, Wail. 
Perennial, stellately pubescent or tomentose herbs; roots often with 
elongate tubers. Whorls 6—8-fld., dense- or lax-fld., axillary or in a ler: 
spikes. Calyx 10-nerved, subequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube sen "A 
throat dilated, not annulate; upper lip galeate, lower broadly Led. 
Stamens ascending; anthers conniving, cells parallel, transverse, mais 
Disk symmetric or produced behind. Style-lobes subequal. | i corky 
(drupes) various, glabrous or pubescent, hilum broad, pericarp thic 
or fleshy. Cotyledons often unequal.—Species 16, Indian, Malayan and 
Chinese, 
* Upper or all the whorls in terminal or axillary spikes. 
1. G. strobilinum, Wall. Cat. 2151; stem scurfily scabrid or tomor 
tose, leaves elliptic-ovate subacute crenate scabrid above densely tomen ote 
beneath, whorls in a dense stout .terminal tomentose spike, "olar 
broadly elliptic-ovate exceeding the calyx, calyx j in., lobes ud odr 
acute. Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 12, Lab. 647, and in DC. Proar. 
xii. 550. 
Burma; Prome, Rangoon, &c., Wallich, M’ Clelland.—D18TRIB. Ava. Ţ 15 
Leaves 4-10 by 2-6 in., narrowed into a petiole 4-3 in. Spike sometime 
and 2 in. broad; bracts 1 in. and under. Ca/yz à in. Corolla twice as 
Nutlets à in., turgid. ly pubes- 
Var. viridis; leaves more membranous narrowly elliptic-lanceolate finely Prim 
cent beneath, flowers larger. G. viride, Wall. Cat. 2153 ; Benth. ll. c.— Tenass , 
Wallich ; Moulmein, Parish. densely 
Var. Heyneana ; stem petioles spikes and leaves beneath tomentose or "1. Cat. 
woolly, “ flowers blueish with a purple tinge,” Wight. G. Heyneanum, We “a the 
2152; Benth, ll. c.; Wight Ill. t. 176 bis, f. 9, and Ie. t. 1456.— Deccan, fro 
Bababoodan Hills to Travancore. 
"4 . 
5^" 2. G. pedunculatum, Benth. mss.; tomentose, leaves long-petioles 
3-12 by 14-7 in , ovate or elliptic-ovate denticulate pubescent above, Y er 
crowded in short axillary peduncled oblong heads or spikes, bracts long 
than the calyx ovate serrate, calyx } in., lobes triangular acute. 
Kuasia Mr$.; below Nurtiun , J. D. H. & T. T. . in. 
Stem long, flexuous, prostrate, rooting MUR Leaves distant. Spikes t 
long, axillary and from below the leaves or even from the rooting portion of t » brous, 
peduncle tomentose, 1-1 in. ; bracts and calyx red-brown, Corolla $ in., gia 
pale sulphur colour. Nutlets šin., subglobose, rugose, 
3. G. acaule, Kurz mss.; stemless, densely pubescent, leaves les 
by 3-44 in. elliptic obtuse crenate, petiole very stout long or short, mime 
in a very short velvety terminal sessile spike softly tomentose, bracts 
longer than the calyx ovate crenate, calyx $ in., lobes Janceolate. 
