'Venerium LABlATAE Scutellaria 



Lvs. verticillate (jn our species), linear 



and sessile or nearly so 20. Dysophylla 



Lvs. opposite, ovate or lanceolate and 



petiolate 21 . Elsholtzia 



LL. Fls. on evident pedicels, in racemes or in 

 lax axillary whorls. 

 Leaf blades mostly 5cm. or less long; 



each floral leaf subtending 3 fls. .. 22. Ocimum 

 Leaf blades, or some of them, usually 

 6-15 cm. long: each floral leaf sub- 

 tending 1 fl 23. Perilla 



1. Teucrium Linn. Germander t^J^M (K'u Ts'ao Shu) 



Herbs or shrubs with rather small pink, white or purplish fls. in axillary or termi- 

 nal spikes or heads; calyx 10-nerved; corolla tube short; limb apparently one-lipped, 

 deeply cleft between the two small upper lobes; middle lobe larger than the lateral; 

 stamens 4, exserted, the anterior pair longer; style not gynobasic: nutlets minute, 

 obovoid, wrinkled and reticulate. 160 species, in warm regions; 10 in China. (Named 

 for the Trojan King, Teucer.) 



Key to the Species 



Lvs. ovate to lanceolate: calyx teeth nearly equal: nutlets smooth .. 1. T. stoloniferum 

 Lvs. lanceolate: calyx with upper tooth largest: nutlets granulate .. 2. T. pernyi 



1. Teucrium stoloniferum Hamilt. ex Benth. Ujjg^r (Yeh Huo Hsiang; Wild Lopan- 

 thus) (Be.F.279). Erect herb, to 1.2 m.; fls. pink, VII. Southeastern Asia, Java; 

 locally in Che., Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. Forest. 



2. Teucrium pernyi Franch. (Sun 11). Erect herb, to 0.8m.; fls. white or greenish, 

 VIII. China; locally in Che., Hup., Ki., Ku. Woodland. 



2. Ajuga Linn. Bugle Weed ^'ft-V-'M (Chin Ku Ts'ao Shu) 

 Annual or perennial often stoloniferous herbs with mostly dentate lvs. and rather 

 large fls. in axillary or terminal lfy. clusters; calyx 10-many-nerved; corolla limb 2- 

 lipped; the upper lip very short, notched; the lower lip larger, with the middle lobe 

 cleft or emarginate; stamens 4, didynamous, the anterior pr. longer; style not gyno- 

 basic; ovary not deeply lobed: nutlets obovoid, wrinkled and reticulate. About 40 

 species, in the eastern hemisphere; 6 in China. (From the Greek terms meaning 

 "without a yoke", from the apparent absence of the upper lip of the corolla.) 



Key to the Species 



Lvs. petioled: fls. white: plant pilose 1 . A. decumbens 



Lvs. (at least the flg. ones) sessile: fls. blue: plant lanate 2. A. genevensis 



1. Ajug-a decumbens Thunb. (DC.P.12:598). Herb, to 3dm.; fls. white, IV-V. Japan, 

 China; locally in An., Che., Hun., Hup., Ku. Roadsides. Fig. 317. 



2. Ajuga genevensis Linn. ^{tnh'W^- (To Hua Chin Ku Ts'ao; Many-flowered-vein- 

 bone Herb) (B.M.849). Herb, to 3dm.; fls. blue, IV. Eurasia; locally in An., Ku. 

 Roadsides. 



3. Scutellaria Linn. Skullcap \ '')- |f (Huang Ling Shu) 

 Herbs or subshrubs: fls. variously colored, borne singly in the axils of lvs. or 



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