Stachys. | LABIATA (Skan). 337 
more or less exserted from the corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled ; cells 
distinct, parallel or usually divergent and at length divaricate. 
Disk usually equal. Style subequally bifid at the apex. Nutlets 
ovoid or oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex. 
Annual or perennial herbs, undershrubs or sometimes shrubs, with various kinds 
of indumentum, or sometimes nearly glabrous ; leaves sessile or petiolate, entire 
or toothed, the upper often reduced to bracts ; whorls 2- to many-flowered (rarely 
reduced to 1 flower), axillary, or in terminal spikes or racemes ; flowers sessile or 
very shortly pedicellate, often rather small, sometimes showy, variously coloured. 
Distris. Species about 320, most frequent in the temperate regions of both 
hemispheres. 
*Herbs, rarely undershrubs, variously hairy, but not 
densely covered with a felt-like or wool-like 
indumentum, sometimes almost glabrous : 
Corolla-tube 7-10 lin. long, often twice or more than 
twice as long as the calyx : 
Stem robust, somewhat prickly on the angles; 
calyx 5-7 lin. long ; corolla-tube broad _..._ (1) Thunbergii. 
Stem slender, not prickly ; calyx 34 lin. long; 
corolla-tube slender... in ie iw 
Corolla-tube less than 6 lin. long, not twice as long 
.as the calyx: 
tLeaves ovate, large, often 14 in. and sometimes 
more than 8 in. long, usually more than 1 in. 
up to 24 in. broad : : 
Calyx-teeth usually long and very narrow, not 
or scarcely spreading, or if spreading they 
are more or less curved near the apex ; 
spike usually unbranched : 
Calyx-teeth usually 1}-24 lin. long ; all the 
leaves distinctly petiolate : 
Upper bracts scarcely longer than the calyx ; 
calyx more or less densely covered with 
rather short hairs: 
Leaves especially beneath densely and 
softly hairy ; teeth often 20-25 each 
side ... te ae ot vis 
Leaves very sparingly hairy ; teeth usually 
12-15 each side... ree ds 
Upper bracts distinctly longer than the 
calyx; calyx densely covered with 
long hairs bik vee ys i. 
Calyx-teeth 3-1 lin. long ; upper leaves sessile 
or subsessile axe svt ae ine 
Calyx-teeth rather short and broad, distinctly 
spreading ; spike branched... 6% aps 
+tLeaves oblong-lanceolate, linear-oblong to linear, 
or if ovate to ovate-oblong or suborbicular 
they are rarely more than 1 in. long, often 
much shorter, and rarely more than 3 in. 
broad : 
(2) tubulosa, 
(3) grandifolia. 
(4) Cooperi. 
(5) Bolusii. 
(7) Kuntzei. 
(6) albiflora, 
tLeaves ovate to ovate-oblong, about as long as 
broad up to twice as long as broad, or if 
more than twice as long as broad not 
usually exceeding 4 in. long : 
§Leaves sessile or subsessile (sometimes shortly 
petiolate in S. Galpint): 
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