Boraginee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 303 
one of the sacred plants of the Hindoos. Plectanthrus cordifolius, Coleus barbatus and 
aromaticus are also very aromatic. Both the hill. and plain varieties of mint are much 
used by the natives in medicine, as is Mentha Royleana by the hill-people. But 
Meriandra strobilifera (murtoo), from its strong fragrance, promises to be as useful 
as any. JM. Bengalensis is already much used by the natives, and called kafoor ka putta. 
Camphor-leaf. Roylea elegans, called putkuroo, is, on the contrary, employed in the 
mountains as a febrifuge, as we have seen to “ the case with some of the Teucriums in 
Europe. : 
_ Dracocephalum Royleanum, or Balungoo of the natives, is the only plant of the family 
at present much cultivated in Northern India, and this on account of its seeds, tookhm- 
balungoo, which are extensively employed in India for forming mucilaginotis drinks, in 
cases where these are indicated. 
Salvia hians (Royle), Bentham in Hooker’s Botanical Miscellany, vol. 3. p. 373, and Labiatarum 
Genera et Species, p- 219 and 71'7.—Tab. 75. fig. 2. 
Hab. This very handsome species was brought me by my plant collectors from Cashmere. It was 
subsequently found, as we learn from Mr. Bentham, 1. c. p. 717, by -M. Jacquemont, in the elevated 
herbaceous regions of Cashmere, near Banhatti, and also on Peer Punjal. It is well worthy of intro- 
duction into the gardens of England, together with Salvia Moorcroftiana, and some others of the 
ornamental Labiate, found in the elevated regions of the Himalaya. 
Phlomis Cashmeriana (Royle), Benth. in Hook. Bot. Mise. 3. p. 382, and Labiatarum Genera et 
Species p: 630.—Tab. 75 a fig. 1. 
Hab. This, like the preceding, and figured with it in the same plate, is from Cashmere, and also 
well worthy of introduction into England. 
_ Eremostachys superba (Royle), Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3. p. 381, and Labiatarum Genera et 
Species, p. 637.—Tab. 74.—Plant half the natural size. (a) A flower of the natural size; (6) the same 
seen sideways; (c) the same, with the corol removed, and the calyx cut open; (d) upper lip of corol, 
with the style closely embraced by the stamens, of which the filaments are covered with closely interlaced 
hairs, so as to give them somewhat the appearance of being bound down by a membrane, filaments 
terminated at their base by laciniated appendages, as in the filaments of the lower lip (d*); (e) vertical 
section of two achenia; (f) achenium thickly covered with hair; (g) transverse section of the four 
achenia. 
Hab. This very showy and elegant plant I have only met with in the Kheree Pass, or entrance on 
the direct road from Saharunpore into the Deyra Doon. Introduced into the Botanic Garden, it 
became perfectly naturalized, and highly ornamental. I have little to add to Mr. Bentham’s excellent 
_ description of the generic and specific characters published in his Monograph of ‘the Labiate, except 
that all the four filaments are terminated by the laciniate appendages, and that the annual stem springs 
from a large tuberous root-stock. 
126. BORAGINEZ. 
The Boraginee, very nearly allied to Labiate by their 4-lobed fruit, are sometimes 
divided into several orders, as Boraginee, Heliotropicee, and Ehretiacee; but these it is 
more convenient to treat of as tribes of the first. The Boraginee, including in this 
term the sub-orders, Boragee and Cynoglossee, particularly abound in the temperate 
parts of the northern, with a small proportion also in the southern hemisphere, as at the 
Cape of Good Hope, in New Holland, Chili, and Peru. They are especially abundant 
in the temperate parts of Europe, in the Mediterranean, and Oriental regions. From 
Caucasus they extend into Siberia and the Altai mountains, and southwards to the 
Himalayas, 
