390 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 

 Shrubs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Petals United. 



ColebrooMa opposlti- 

 folia, 



Pansra, shuiardana. 



Labiate. 



F. B. r. iv. tU2. 



Salt range. The Plains 



1-4,000 ft. Valleys below 



Simla, Dharmpur, Suni 



(Collett). 



medium size, woolly, bark grey, leaves 4-!0 by U-3 

 in., lanceolate, long pointed, velvetj -wrinkled above 

 grey and woolly beneath, leaf stalk A-1 in., stout, white- 

 felted ; flowers male and female often on different 

 plants, minute, white, in clusters 2-4 in. long on many 

 branched spikes, corolla white, lobes rounded, stamens 

 4, within the corolla in females, protruding in males ; 

 style bifid and protruding in females, none in males ; 

 nutlet usually one, tip hairy contained in the much 

 enlarged calyx of which the segments are feathery, 

 the tips often purple. 



Elsboltzia 

 polystacliya, 



Rangchari, pothi. 



LABIATiE, 



F. B. I. iv. 643. 



Himalaya, 7-9,000 



Simla (Collett). 



medium size, velvety, bark grey p*eeling in long 

 strips, branches scarcely 4 angled ; leaves 3-6 in. long, 

 nearly sessile, lanceolate, toothed, long pointed ; flowers 

 white or pale yellow, minute in cylindric slender 

 spikes, 4-6 in. long, bracts minute, calyx bell-shaped, 

 ^^» 5-toothed, enlarged in fruit, corolla tube longer than the 

 calyx, 4-lobed, upper lobe nearly erect, notched, the 

 other spreading, stamens 4 in unequal pairs, protrud- 

 ing, style unequally bifid, nutlets 4, narrow, one-seeded. 



ICeriaadra strobUi- 

 fera, 



Kafurka pat. 



F. B. l.iv. 652. 

 Himalaya, 5-6,000 ft. 

 Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



small, woolly, smelling of sage, branches somewhat 

 angled ; leaves 3-4 by f -1| ins., thick, oblong or lance- 

 olate, shortly toothed, two portions projecting back- 

 wards in points, velvety and closely wrinkled above, 

 white woolly beneath, stalk very stout, \ in. long ; 

 flowers white, small in large circular clusters crowded 

 in erect woolly four sided spikes with floral leaves 

 (bracts) small, sessile, ovate, overlapping ; calyx two, 

 lipped, corolla four-lobed, spreading, stamens 2, short, 

 stout, protruding, style bifid ; nutlets brown smooth. 



The leaves are used as a gargle in sore throats in 

 native medicine. 



Justicia Betonica, 



Corolla Two-lipped. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



Justicia Pubigrera, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple. 



