376 Mr. Babington on the Teucrium regium of Schreber. 



with the description by Schreber, I find it to agree perfectly, 

 and have therefore no doubt of its being the plant intended 

 by that author. 



Within the last year my friend the Rev. C. A. Stevens for- 

 warded to me for examination a specimen of Teucrium which 

 he was unable to refer to any species with which he was ac- 

 quainted ; and upon its examination I came to the conclusion 

 that it was a truly distinct species, and, as I believed, quite 

 undescribed ; but upon comparing it with the Smyrna speci- 

 men of T. regium, which I nad previously overlooked, I found 

 that they exactly corresponded, and in short that Mr. Stevens's 

 plant was certainly T. regium. 



This latter specimen was gathered in Aug. 1836, ^^ on the 

 south-west declivity of the Blohrenge, at about two miles from 

 Abergavenny, Monmouthshire," by Mr. E. Y. Steele, and so, 

 being a native of England, it becomes even of more interest 

 than if it had been only a '^ species dubia," 



I have now the pleasure of giving a specific character and 

 description of the plant, together with drawings of the differ- 

 ent parts requisite for its elucidation. 



T. regium (Schreb.). SufFruticosum ; ramis subsimplicibus pube- 

 scentibus, foliis ovatis basi cuneatis irregulariter crenatis pube- 

 scentibus subtus tomentosis, floralibus minoribus ovato-rhom- 

 boideis acutis subintegris, verticillastris 1 — 5 floris superioribus 

 contiguis racemosis, calycibus villosis, corollis barbatis. 



T. regium purpureum, Moris, hort. hies. 311. 



T. lucidum parvo folio, flora venuste purpureo. 



Pluk. aim. p. 363. t. 65. f. 1. Moris, hist. 3. p. 422. n. 5. 



T. regium, Schreb. Unilab. 35. Benth. Lab. 683. 



Stem diffuse with long simple branches, hairy with deflexed 

 hairs, square, internodes about 1^ inch long. Leaves ovate 

 with a wedge-shaped base, the upper half having a few large 

 and deep crenatures, not inciso-crenate as in T. chamcedrys, 

 shortly stalked, finely downy above, pubescent beneath ; the 

 floral leaves between ovate and rhomboid, nearly entire, or 

 with a few, one or two, small teeth above their middle, some- 

 times slightly coloured, all of the same form, and not gradually 

 changing into the ordinary leaves at the lower part of spike 

 as is the case in T. chamcedrys. Flowers from one to five in 



