Marrubium LABIATAE Lamium 



small, white or purplish, in crowded axillary whorls; calyx tubular, 5-10-nerved, open 

 infr.; corolla tube short; stamens 4, included, straight; style gynobasic, 2-cleft, included; 

 ovary deeply 4-lobed: nutlets ovoid, smooth. About 40 species, Eurasia and North 

 Africa; one in China. (From the Hebrew, marrob, a bitter juice.) 



1. Marrubium incisum Benth. (ISggff (Chia Ch'ungWei; False Motherwort) (Sun 19). 

 Herb, to 0.6m.; fls. white, IV-V. Continental eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., 

 Hon., Hup., Ki., Ku. Roadsides. Fig. 320. 



6. Agrastache Clayt. Giant Hyssop WWsM (P'ai Hsiang Ts'ao Shu) 

 Tall perennial herbs with ovate serrate petiolate lvs. and small fls. crowded in 

 dense or interrupted terminal spike-like panicles; calyx tubular-bell-shaped, 15-nerved; 

 corolla 2-lipped; stamens 4, exserted, the upper pr. longer than the lower; anthers 2- 

 celled, the cells parallel; ovary deeply 4-parted: nutlets ovoid, smooth. About 8 

 species, North America and one in eastern Asia. (Greek meaning "many spikes".) 



1. Agastache rugosa Ktze. $$^?1fr (P'ai Hsiang Ts'ao; Ranked-aromatic Herb) (Sun 

 21). Aromatic herb, to 1 m. ; fls. purplish or white, IX; lvs. pellucid-punctate. 

 Eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., Ku., Hup. Cultivated, medicinal. 



7. Glechoma Linn. Ground Ivy M^^M (Lien Ch'ien Ts'ao Shu) 



Creeping or decumbent herbs with long-petiolate orbicular or reniform crenate lvs. 

 and rather large blue or violet fls. in loose axillary clusters; calyx 15-nerved, 2-lipped; 

 corolla tube exserted; stamens 4, ascending under the lip of the corolla, not exserted, 

 the upper pr. longer than the lower; anther cells divergent at right angles; style short: 

 nutlets smooth. 6 species, in Eurasia; one in China. (The Greek name for thyme or 

 pennyroyal.) 



1. Glechoma hederacea Linn. (Nepeta glechoma Benth.; N. hederacea (L.) Trev.) 5E 

 $^ (Lien Ch'ien Ts'ao; Connected-coin Herb) (G.M.1224). Creeping perennial; fls. 

 bluish purple, III-IV. Eastern Asia, North America; locally in An., Che., Hun., 

 Hup., Ki., Ku. Moist places. Fig. 321. 



8. Phlomis Linn. Jerusalem Sage W^Whl^M (Yeh Lu Sa Leng Ts'ao Shu) 



Tall perennial herbs or shrubs with rugose lvs. and yellow, purple or white fls. 

 in dense many-fld. axillary bracteate clusters: calyx equally toothed, 5-10-nerved, open 

 in fr.; stamens 4, the upper pr. shorter; filaments not bifid; style lobes unequal, the 

 upper shorter: nutlets ovoid. 50 species, in the eastern hemisphere; 10 in China. (An 

 old Greek name of a woolly plant.) 



1. Phlomis dentosa Franch. ^MMft^ (Yin Ti Yeh Lu Sa Leng Ts'ao) (Sun 26). 

 Erect herb, to 1.2m.; fls. IX-X. China; locally in Ku. Woodland shade. 



9. Lamium Linn. Dead Nettle UKS (Hsu Tuan Shu) 



Brg. and more or less decumbent herbs with crenate dentate or serrate usually 

 cordate lvs. and fls. in axillary or terminal lfy. bracteate clusters; cal yx 5-nerved ; the 

 teeth not spiny; corolla sometimes ringed inside, the upper lip arched; stamens 4; 

 anthers 2-celled, ovate; style lobes equal or nearly so: nutlets 3-angled, truncate at 

 the apex. 40 species, in the eastern hemisphere; 3 in China. (From the Greek term 



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