Tab. 696G. 



MORINA BETONICOIDES. 



Native of the SiJchim Himalaya. 



Nat. Ord. Dipsace.e. 

 Genus Mobina, Linn.; (Bent/i. et Ilook.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 15S.) 



Moktna betonicoides ; caule pilis retrorsis pubescente, foliis linearibus v. Iineari- 

 lanceolatis acutis integerrimis marginibus spinulosis, caulinis oppositis, capitulis 

 paucifloris, involucelli tubo brevi ore truncato spinis 12-20 erectis armatn, 

 caljcis subcampanulati obscure bilabiati lobis late ovatis spinescentibus ciliatis, 

 corolla rosea, tubo hirsuto calyce duplo longiore lente curvo, limbi fere 

 jpqualis lobis subsequalibus obcordato-rotundatis ore contracto, filamentis 

 brevibus inferioribus paullo brevioribus. 



M. betonicoides, Tienth. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1171; Clarice in Flora of British 

 India, vol. iii. p. 217. 



The Lead-quarters of the genus Morina are, as far as is 

 at present known, the Himalaya Mountains, where it occurs 

 throughout the whole extent of the range, from Kashmir 

 eastward. A tew species extend westward into Affghanistan, 

 and one into Persia, and probably a fair share will be 

 found in Western China. There are two sections of the 

 genus, one with a deeply and subequally two-lipped calyx, 

 the lips two-lqbed, to which belong M. persica, L. (M. 

 Wallichiana, Royle), If. longifolia, Wall. (Tab.nost. 4092), 

 and M. Coulteriaiia, Royle (Tab. 6734), remarkable for its 

 yellow flowers ; in the other the calyx is obscurely two- 

 lipped with spinescent lobes; to this belongs B. nepalensis, 

 a species hitherto only known from Wallich's specimens 

 collected in Nepal, and the subject of the present plate, 

 which Mr. Clarke suggests may be a fully developed state 

 of nepalensis. 



M. betonicoides was first found by myself, id 1848, at 

 elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet in the Sikkim Himalaya, 

 and it has subsequently been gathered by Mr. Clarke in the 

 same country and at the same elevations. It is a beautiful 

 rock plant and quite hardy. The specimen here figured 

 was raised from seed sent by Dr. Kurz, Superintendent 

 not. 1st, 1S87. 



