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Labiatae, lint Family. 
Annual or perennial herbs or undershrubs with opposite simple 
leaves without stipules and with mint-scented herbage. Flowers perfect, 
in Sega oles, EOI in the axils or often in axillary whorls, 
the upvermost forming an interrupted spike, Calyx regularly 5-(4) 
toothed or lobed or 2-lipped, the upper lip 3-toothed, the lower 2-toothed 
or the lips entire, the upper then bearing a marked protuberence, Corolla 
5-(4) lobed, nearly regular to more often strongly 2-lipped., Stamens 2 
or 4 in 2 pairs, often unlike, the one pair frequently sterile. Ovary 
superior, deeply 4-lobed, forming 4 1-seeded nutlets} epreewminang Croom 
mesurrey, style 1, bifid at the sumnit, semetimes—produced-cormnrt ts 
an-etoneeted-conicat structure {Bylo base) persistent vetireen-vhe-maturc 
nutliets;, Tho-ssems ire Tre mertiytearrted. 
