-6 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, Mentha, 
6. M. fruticosa, Roxb. 
Shrubby. Leaves ovate- ene roe serrate, aii Pa- 
nicles brachiate, terminal. Filaments and style much long- 
er than the corol, and variously bent. 
A native of the Circar mountains. | 
Shrubby. Leaves from cordate to oval, serrate. Spikes 
terminal, secund, flowers fascicled. Stamens hairy, double 
the length of the corol. 
Beng. Jul-luta, 
_ Elsholtzia. Banksian herbarium. 
This plant is common, and indigenous all over Bengal; ; 
flowering time the end of the cold season, 
Stems many, shrubby, erect, ramous, round, smooth, co- 
loured. Leaves opposite, pe gled 
serrate, when yot ny N 
red, een to six Seine Jong. | 
slightly channelled, much shorter than the leaves, Spike- 
lets terminal, and from the exterior axills, secund, very nu- 
merous, the whole of each branch forming a long panicle. 
Bractes numerous, hairy, and ciliate, the exterior one of every 
other pair is generally abortive; in the axill of each of the 
other three fertile ones is a fascicle or two, of from four to 
twelve smaller falcate bractes, embracing like an involucre, 
about as many flowers, Calyx sub-cylindric; Corol ; upper 
lip broad, three-parted, erect ; under lip entire, ovate, point- 
ed, Filaments double the length of the corol, hairy, . Style 
the length of the stamina. Stigma two-cleft, Gineec ta- 
pering and expanding. 
The plant possesses a strong, heavy, aromatic aia and 
bitterish taste. ) 
7. M. sativa, Willd. iii. 79. 
Flowers verticelled, Leaves elliptic, serrate, Stamina 
longer than the corol. 
Beng. Poodena, Pudun, &c. bee sh g0t). 
Found common in gardens throughout India, | 
Peis roundish, i 
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