10 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, =—s- Phlomis. 
_ This plant has a pleasant faint aromatic smell, its flowers 
are used by the brahmins to decorate their idols. In the 
Banksian herbarium, two other specific names are attached 
to it, viz. obliqua and malabarica, 
3. P. esculenta, Roxb. 
Annual, erect, ramous, Leaves lanceolar, serrate, downy ; 
heads generally terminal or with one globular verticel at the 
next pair of the leaves. Calya obliquely ten-toothed. 
Hind. and Beng. Choota-hull-koossa. 
Zeling. Manchy-tumi, or tumi-kura, 
This species is annual, it grows common on dry cultivadeg 
lands. Flowers. during the wet season. 
Stem annual, erect, ramous, four-angled, four-grooved, 
downy, from one to two feet high, opposite, short- 
petioled, broad- Janceolate, serrate, downy, about two inches 
long and three quarters of an inch broad, Verticels one or 
two, many-flowered. fnvolucres very numerous, — 
ciliate. _ Calyx obliquely ten-toothed. 
The plant possesses a considerable degree of a peedicar 
fragrance ; its leaves are used as a potherb by the natives, 
4. P. cephalotes, Kin. Mss. ie. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, aciite, 
serrate, downy. Heads terminal, IJnvolucres lanceolate, ci- 
liate. Calyx with the mouth even, and cut into ten equal 
Hind, and Beng. Bura-hul-khusa.: 
| Teling. Garosastumi. 
_ Like the former (P. esculenta,) but in ye respects they 
are dissimilar, Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, point- 
ed, serrate, soft, downy, about two inches long, and less than 
one broad. Verticels generally solitary, terminal, globular, 
many-flowered. Flowers numerous, white, Invodicres nu- 
- merous, imbricate, lanceolate, ineurved, ciliates Calyx erect, 
-_gibbous, ten-striated ; mouth horizontal, ten-toothed, Cored 
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