Tas. 8460, 
ELSHOLTZIA Sravunront. 
China. ef 
Lapratak. Tribe SATUREINBAR. 
Etsnoutzia, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1181, 
« 
Elsholtzia Stauntoni, Benth. Lab. p. 161, et in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 160; 
Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii, p. 85; Franchet, Pl. David. pars » 
p. 233 (forma puberula); Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxvi. 
p. 278; Jack in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 1909, p. 288; Hyde in Gard. 
Chron. 1912, vol. li. p. 21, fig. 16; ab BE. polystachya, Benth., floribus multo 
majoribus paniculas laxiores et latiores formantibus facile distinguenda. 
Suffrutex graveolens. Caules erecti, 1-1°5 m. alti, subteretes, canescenti- 
tomentelli, apice valde ramosi. Folia petiolata, late lanceolata, 9-12 em. 
longa, 2°5-3 cm. lata, superiora gradatim minora, longe acuminata, inciso- 
serrata, basi in petiolum sensim angustata, margine et venis primariis 
minute puberulis exceptis glaberrima, infra pallida et crebre glanduloso- 
punctata; petiolus 0°5-1°5 em. longus. Verticillastri 5-10-flori, paniculas 
numerosas spiciformes laxas saepissime terminales subsecundas 7-15 em., 
rarius ad 20 cm. longas formantes. Bracteae et bracteolae lanceolatae vel 
lineari-lanceolatae, saepe 2-4 mm. longae. Pedicelli 2-3 mm. longi, breviter 
pubescentes. Ca/yx tubulosus, 2°5-3 mm. longus, extra breviter albo- 
tomentosus, glanduloso-punctatus, 5-dentatus; dentes ovato-lanceolati, 
1-1-75 mm. longi, subaequales, acuti. Corolla roseo-purpurea, circiter 
7 mm. longa, extra breviter pubescens, glandulis sessilibus paucis instructa ; 
tubus leviter ineurvus, infundibuliformis, intus oblique annulato-pilosus ; 
limbus leviter bilabiatus; labium superum erectum, profunde emarginatum, 
1°5 mm. longum; labium inferum 3-lobatum, 2°5 mm. longum, lobis sub- 
orbicularibus intermedio concavo glabro 2 mm. longo quam ceteri majore. 
Stamina 4, glabra, longe exserta, duo antica longiora. Stylus glaber, longe 
exsertus, apice profunde 2-fidus. Nuculue laeves, ellipsoideae, disco denti- 
culato antice valde producto cireumdatae.—S. A. SKAN. 
The Elsholtzia here figured is probably, from the horti- 
culturist’s point of view, the best of the genus, which is 
now known to include about 36 species, mostly natives of 
India and China. Three species, distinct from the Asiatic, 
are known from Tropical Africa. Two of the Asiatic 
species have already been figured in this work, namely, 
L. cristata, Willd., at t. 2560, and E. blanda, Benth., under 
the name of Aphanochilus blandus, Benth., at t. 3091. The 
former is widely distributed, occurring in Northern Asia, 
China and Japan, and in the Temperate and Tropical 
Himalayas, and has even appeared in cultivated places in 
several parts of Northern Europe. 
£. Stauntoni, the subject of our illustration, is apparently 
limited to the Province of Chibli in North China, Its 
October, 1912. 
