6 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 



G.M.Jruiicosa. Roxf . 



Shrubby. Leaves ovate lanceolate, seriate, do'vny. Pa- 

 nicles brachiate, terminal. Filaments and style nuicli long- 

 er than the corol, and variously bent. 



A native of the Circar mountains. 



Shrubby. Leaves from cordate to oval, serrate. Spikes 

 terminal, secund, flowers fascicled. Stamens hairy, double 

 the length of the corol. 



JSeng. Jul-b^ta. 



Elsholtzia. Banksian herharhnn. 



This plant is common, and indigenous all over Bengal ; 

 flowering time the end of the cold season. 



Stems many, shrubby, erect, ramous, round, smooth, co- 

 loured. Leaves opposite, petioled, oval and cordate, grossly 

 serrate, when young- downy, with the veins and nerves co- 

 loured, from four to six inches long. Petioles roundish, 

 slightly channelled, much shorter than the leaves. Spike- 

 lets terminal, and from the exterior axills, secund, very nu- 

 merous, the whole of each branch forming a long panicle. 

 Bractes numerous, hairy, and ciliate, the exterior one of every 

 other pair is generally abortive; in the axill of each of the 

 other three fertile ones is a fascicle or two, of from four to 

 twelve smaller falcate bractes, embracing like an involucre, 

 about as many flowers. Ca/?/a: sub-cylindric. Corol ; npper 

 lip broad, three-parted, erect ; nnder lip entire, ovate, point- 

 ed. Filaments double the length of the corol, hairy. Style 

 the length of the stamina. Stigma two-cleft, segments ta- 

 pering and expanding-. 



Tile plant possesses a strong, heavy, aromatic smell and 

 bitterish taste. 



7. M. satim. Willd. iii. 79. 



Flowers verticelled. Leaves elliptic, serrate. Stamina 

 lonoer than the corol. 



Beny. Poodena, Pudun, &c. 



Found common in gardens throuq-liout India. 



