98 DR. J. E. Т. AITCHISON ON THE BOTANY OF 
albi, in axillis foliorum solitarii, breviter peduneulati, 8-9 lineas longi; calyx 10- 
nervosus, fere zequaliter 5-lobatus, regularis, lobis latis 3-nervosis vix acutis, fructifer 
glabrescens, induratus, campanulatus ; corollz parcissime puberule tubus breviter 
exsertus ; labium superius brevius, ovale, bidentatum, striatum, divaricatum ; labium 
inferius trilobatum, lobis lateralibus brevissimis rotundatis; stamina 4, breviter 
exserta, fere eequilonga, filamentis planis papillosis simul puberulis; stylus inclusus. 
Nucule glabre, oblong, anguste circumalate. 
Hari-rud valley : 157, April 2, 3, 7, 29, 1885; Мау 10, 1885. Native name Kalpura. 
A characteristic shrub of the gravel plains of the Hari-rud valley; from three to four 
feet in height ; much browsed by sheep and goats. Flowers pure white. 
Near S. fruticulosa, from which it is readily distinguished by its stellate indumentum, 
acute calyx-lobes, &c. Perhaps this and its immediate allies should form an independent 
genus. 
LAMIUM AMPLEXICAULE, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 760. 
Hari-rud valley : 230, April 18, 1885. In cultivated soil, common. 
РніомІѕ HERBA-VENTI, Linn., var. floribus albidis, Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 791. 
Khorasan: 656, June 16, 17, 1885. Іп stony places, at an altitude of 4000 feet. А 
very conspicuous herb, growing in dense clumps, from a foot to two feet in height. 
Flowers of this variety a dirty white. 
EREMOSTACHYS LABIOSA, Bunge, var. a. CANESCENS, Regel, Monogr. Gen. Erem. р. 8.— 
Е. diversifolia, Regel, Descr. Pl. Nov. Turkest. 1879, fasc. vii. р. 94; Е. napu- 
ligera, Franchet, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 6"* série, xviii. р. 297, t. 17. 
Badghis: 355, Мау 1, 18,1885. Native names: Turki, Aggar-maggar; Pers., Khoar- 
barrar. An extremely common plant in the loamy soil of the downs of the Badghis. 
The fibrous roots expand into tubers, due, I believe, to an insect. The tubers are largely 
collected and employed chiefly by the Turkomans in washing their bodies with, as a rube- 
facient. Flowers white, with a yellow lower lip. A very showy and handsome plant 
when in flower. 
EREMOSTACHYS PERSIMILIS, Aitch. et Hemsl., п. sp. “А specie affini E, glabra differt, 
bracteis calycem zequantibus vel superantibus, calycis vix hirsuti apicem versus 
paullo dilatata dentes in spinam elongatam excurrentes.”—Regel in litt. 
Herba perennis, 1-2 ped. alta, glabra vel glabrescens, caule sepius simplici. Folia 
papyracea, glabra, subnitida, petiolata (petiolo radicalium laminam fere sequante), 
ovato-oblonga, maxima, absque petiolo, 9 poll. longa, breviter pinnatifida, simul 
crenata vel duplicato grosse crenata, costa albida atque venis reticulatis subtus valde 
elevatis, petiolo basi sericeo-lanato ; folia floralia sessilia, semiamplexicaulia, flores 
excedentia. Flores lutei, in axillis 3 subsessiles, bracteolis lineari-subulatis, calycem 
superantibus; calyx pilosulus vel glabrescens, apice leviter ampliatus, dentibus 
spiniformibus circiter 3 lineas longis; coroll extus parcissime hirsute tubus 
` breviter exsertus; labium superius brevius, galeatum, intus sat barbatum; labium 
