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‘Mentua verticinrata. Wuorien Mint. 
Jeb rebiohnneibbick 
Class ended a 
_ Dipynamia Grito 
( Nat. Ord. eg 3 
Generic. Character. | 
Calyx 5-dentatus. Cor. 4-loba, subregularis, lobo Iatiori 
emarginato. Stamina distantia, recta. Spr. — 
Specific Character and ‘Synonyms. 
Menrna* verticillata ; spicis terminalibus cylindricis crassis, 
floribus densissime congestis, filamentis exsertis pilis 
articulatis medio cinctis, caule ramoso ascendenti basi 
repente, foliis verticillatis superne quaternis elliptico- 
linearibus serratis. Graham. = : 
Menrua verticillata. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 44. Don. 
Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 114. Graham in Edinb. N. Phil. 
Journ. n. 11. Spreng. Syst: Veet. cur. post. p. 227. 
ENTHA veronicefolia. Hamilton MSS. 2 < 
Menrua? pumila. Graham in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. for 
“April 1829, ae hes 
_ Descr. Annual. Stem cespitose, ascending, rooting at 
the joints where it lies upon the ground, much branched, 
‘x to eight inches high, striated, translucent, obscurely 
angled, the cells of the circumference large, empty, pale 
steen, and equal in length to the joints, their walls being 
A posed of a single row of small four-sided cells ; those in 
© centre much smaller, succulent, surrounded by a purple 
Pye AS piémbrane, 
—— 
* ; ~ 
An ancient Latin word, mostly written Menta, adopted from the Greeks, 
7 > y written , adopted from the | 
Whose jesse is synonymous with their 7dvocjos, the latter being titost generally 
ion =e Nymph Mintha, a favourite of Pluto, is fabled’ fo have bert 
hae by Proserpine into this Herb, as incidentally mentioned by Oviv.— 
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