226 WIGHT'S ILLUSTRATIONS, 
but less so than the stem. Flowers collected into short, 
pedunculated, axillary clusters, which spread round the stem, 
forming whorls of which the uppermost are so close, as to con- 
stitute an uninterrupted spike. Bracteas filiform, pubescent, 
nearly the length of the calyx, one or two to each flower. 
Calyz 5-cleft, 10-angled, thickly covered with long, white, 
somewhat viscid pubescence. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip 
entire, shorter than the stamens, obtuse, white; wnder one 
large, 3-cleft, lateral divisions obtuse, reflexed, the middle 
one orbicular, 2-lobed with the sides bent downwards: throat 
hairy, spotted with purple and marked with a streak of the 
same down the middle. Stamens ascending, hairy. Anthers 
deep purple, opening transversely, the longer ones 1-celled, 
the shorter ones 2-celled; the cells transverse. Stigma 2-cleft, 
with divaricated segments. Seeds 4, naked, polished, black. 
Like the A. ovata (already figured in the first series of 
this work, v. ii. p. 358. ¢ 19), this is extensively dispersed 
over India, flowering at the same season, namely during the 
cool months. Both species yield the same heavy, disagree- 
able smell so striking in the Stachys sylvatica of Europe. 
The name in Tamul, Paymerutti, signifies “ cheat the devil,” 
because patients suffering under ague, are made to inhale 
the vapour arising from an infusion of this plant. Copious 
perspiration ensues, which is kept up for some time by 
drinking more of the infusion: and this, it is said, soon 
cures the fever, : 
Tas. CXXVII. Fig. 1, Calyx (laid open) and Pistil. f: 2 
Corolla laid open ; slightly magnified. 
ALLMANIA NODIFLORA. 
Pentanpria Monoeynta, Nat. Ord. AMARANTHACEJE, JUSS. 
Gen. Cuar. Flores omnes evoluti bisexuales, Perianthium 
5-partitum. Stamina 5: filamenta simplicia, basi in cupulam 
edentulam coalita, nullis sterilibus interjectis: Anther@ bilo- 
culares, Stylus simplex: Stigma capitatum, bilobum. Utri- 
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