Plectranthus. DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPER MIA, 23° 
This most agreeably fragrant plant, .is common in almost 
every garden in India, but very rarely found in flower ; this 
viz. the beginning of June, is. only the'second time I have 
found it in “that state in the Company’s Botanic garden at, 
Calcutta, 
- Stems creeping, round,succulent gbiainda iid erect, 
round, very. succulent, fragile, hairy, from one, to two feet, 
high. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, fleshy, fragile, broad-. 
cordate, crenulate, a little hairy, rugose, particularly the un-) 
der side; generally about two inches each way. Spikes ter= 
minal, erect, long, verticelled, before the flowers expand. im-. 
bricated with four rows of caducous bractes.. Flowers nu- 
merous, blue. Perianth hairy ; upper lip broad, as in Ocy- 
mum ; the under lip long, projecting, concave. Filaments 
conjoined, as in the diadelphous flowers, Jonger than the un- 
der lip, ascending, towards the apex distinct, the upper short- 
The leaves, and indeed all parts of the plant, are delight- 
fully fragrant, they are frequently eaten with bread and-but- 
ter, also bruised and put into country beer, cool = &e. 
Se iat = a lad fruientot 
ages: 1 fesoanel 979 arakbacs: 2h 
5. P. strobiliferus, Roxb. sae psdoveniils 
Annual, erect, four-sided. Leaves Loegicosioln cordate, 
serrate, hairy, Spikes panicled, terminal, compact, strobili-, 
form, Lower lip of the. _ rsgaplaiestistantbia Nec- 
tary, scarcely any. itt entiuh eonuh nh vat 
Katu-Kurka. Rheed. Mal, x. & 90. 
Lavendula carnosa, Wilid, iii. 62... - 
It.is annual, a native of the most neds. chjfis of the. aed 
among the Circar mountains, It Rowers during the wet and, 
cold seasons, 
Stem annual,, rect, with, few. or sno o branches, four-sided, 
hairy, two teet high. Leaves opposite, spreading, petioled, 
broad-cordate, obtusely serrate, fleshy, rugose, hairy 5 aby: 
two or three inches see and two broad; there are gen 
