Teucrium.] CXI. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 701 
tose or villous, leaves petioled ovate or oblong-ovate cordate acute serrate, 
racemes short, calyx $ in. villous, upper tooth rounded acute, 2 lower lan- 
ceolate acuminate, lateral shorter, corolla-lobe exserted. Benth. in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. i. 58, Lab. 615, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 583. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt, 3-5000 ft., Royle, &c.— 
DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 
Stem prostrate and rooting below, then erect, 12-18 in., rather slender. Leaves 
14-3 in.; petiole 1-1 in., slender. Racemes subsimple, 1-3 in., rarely more; bracts 
lanceolate, longer than the pedicels. Calyx campanulate, upper and 2 lower teeth 
usually incurved. Corolla 4—} in., tube sometimes twice the length of the calyx. 
Nutlets enclosed in the globose calyx-teeth, subrugose. 
4. T. laxum, Don Prodr. 109; stem slender diffusely branched laxly 
villous or glabrate, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, racemes short 
often recurved, calyx } in. pubescent, upper lip rounded acute, 2 lower lan- 
ceolate acute, corolla-tube included. Benth. Lab. 675, and in DC. Prodr. 
xii 583. Ajuga laxa, Ham. mss. 
CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Hamilton; Kumaon, Edgeworth, alt. 8000 ft.; 
Ramgunga River, alt. 4500 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom (Hedeoma n. 2). . 
Stems or branches 10-12 in., rather slender, villous with long sparse spreading 
hairs in Edgeworth's specimen, glabrous in Strachey's. Leaves 3-13 in., base rounded, 
petiole 3-4 in. Racemes 1-2 in.; bracts ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. 
Corolla not twice the length of the calyx.—Don’s character hardly agrees with the 
specimens above described in the ventricose calyx. 
5. T. quadrifarium, Ham. in Don Prodr. 108; stout, erect, tomen- 
tose or villous, rarely glabrate, leaves sessile or short-petioled ovate or 
oblong-ovate cordate acute serrate racemes panicled, bracts ovate acute 
much exceeding the flowers, calyx à in., upper lip rounded, 2 lower 
acute or obtuse, corolla-tube included. Wall. Cat. 2024; Benth. in Wall. 
Pl. As. Rar. i.58, Lab. 675, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 583; Marim. in 
Bull. Acad. Petersb., Mel. Biol. ix. 827. T. Fortunei, Benth. in DC. l c. 
(excl. Perrottet’s plant). 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 4-8000 ft. Kasra MTS., 
alt. — . Ava, China. . . 
' A stout aan wr ft., almost terete below, sometimes villous with long 
spreading hairs. Leaves 2-3 iu., often rugose ; petiole usually j in., rarely 1 in. 
Spikes 2-6 in., stout, with the bracts on in. diam. ; bracts j in., broac y ova e, 
suddenly acuminate, villous near the base, young quadrifarious imbricating an or 
cealing the flowers, often red-purple; flowers sessile or very short Y. pe ice ed. 
Corolla purple, not twice the length of the calyx. Style entire. utlets sub- 
globose, rugose. 
i 3, leaves short- 
6. T. Wightii, Hook. f.; very robust, densely villous, hor 
petioled very thick rugose rounded ovate obtuse toothed, racemes panicled, 
bracts shorter than the calyx elliptic acute, calyx } in. villous, upper t oo 
rounded apiculate, 2 lower lanceolate, corolla-tube included. Dg ri ia 
rium, Herb. Wight (Kew Distrib. 2168). T.tomentosum, Wight 1e. t. 1498. 
T. n. sp., Benth. Pl. Hohenack. n. 1396. 
- in dry rocky places, alt. 7000 ft., Wight, &e — 
pis ER fe cbtusely angled; Pairs tawny, gros riding. in, long. 
1-14 in.; iole t, À in. Racemes 3-4 in. Corolla purpe, $ In. Og. 
m in. s, petiole, soni Se) Nutlets subglobose, glistening, faintly reticulate. — 
Wight represents the leaves acute, which is the case in T. tomentosum, Du 
in this, 
