780 LABIATAE. nepeta. 



membranaceae. Calyx ul in M. Italica fere aequalis , at denles profundius Bssi. 

 Species inler Oxynepetas, Stegionepetas et Pycnonepetas media. — JV. Italica 

 Sibthrp. et Sm. Flor. Graec. VI. t. 548. (non Linn.) — Habilat in montibus circa 

 Athenas, prope Zara in Dalmatia. 



28. N. ITALICA Linn. Spec. plant. 798. — Jcq. Hort. Vindobon. II. 51. t. 112. — 

 Rchb. Plant. crilic. V. 50. t. 483. — Blh. 1. c. 474. f et 736. — Erecta elata, tenui- 

 ter cano-pubescens: foll. petiolalis ovatis crenatis cordatis, utrinque tenuiter 

 canescentibus; racemis subsimplicib.; bracteis linearib. lanceolatisve rigidis ca- 



Myce sublongiorib.; calycis elongati subincurvi ore vix obliquo, denlib. lanceolaiis 

 acutis, superiorib. submajorib.; corollis calyce vix duplo longioribus. 2(, — Caules 

 2-3-pedaIes rigidi, parum raraosi. Folia vix pollicaria obtusa v. acutiuscula, 

 basi late cordala, interdum subhaslata, leviter rugosa, floralia infima conformia, 

 suprema bracteaeformia. Verticillastri omnes dislincti, inferiores distanles, su- 

 periores approximati , omnes densi multiflori, cymae sessiles v. breviler pedun- 

 culatae. Bracleae numerosae 1-3-nerviae, margine saepe submembranaceae, te- 

 nuiter pubescentes, nunc lanceolatae calyce subbreviores, nunc lineares rigidae, 

 calyces superantes. CoroIIa purpurascens. — iV. teucrioides Lam. Dict. Suppl. I. 

 711. — N. marruhioides Willd. Enum. plant, hort, Berol. II. 603. — N. imbricata 

 Lag. ex Spreng. Syst. vegetab. II. 729. — N. Orientalis Mill. Dicl. no. 9. — N. Ca- 

 lamintha Tausch in Bot. Zeit. 1831. I. 219? — N. macrostachya Jcq. Plant. exsicc. 

 — Cataria canescens Moench, Melh, planl. 388. — Crescit in Hispania, in Italia, 

 sed in floris Ilalicis etiam Neapolilana et Siciliana deest. 



29. N, DISTANS Royle mss. ex Blh. in Hook. Bot. Misc. IIL 379, et Labiat. gener. 

 et spec. 475, — Erecta elata: caule basi villoso; foll, peliolatis ovalo-lanceolatis 

 obtusis crenatis, basi profunde cordatis rugosis, sublus villosis; verticillastris 

 densis, inferiorib. remolis, supremis approximalis; bracteis lineari-lanceolatis 

 calycem subaequantib.; calycis elongali incurvi ore obliquo, dentib. superiorib. 

 lanceolatis, inferiorib. subulatis, omnib, setaceo-acuminatis; corollis calyce sub- 

 duplo longioribus, 2|, — Affinis N. Ilalicae, differt racemo simplici depauperato, 

 foliis inferioribus valde rugosis, subtus dense villosis el dentibus calycinis omni- 

 bus apice setaceis, Folia superiora pauca remota minora, — Habitat in Indiae 

 orientalis monlibus Himalayensibus ad Mussooree et Syen, 



30. N. CRINITA Monlbr. et Auch. Ann. sc. nat. (2. Ser.) YL 46, — Erecla: caule 

 tomentoso pubescenle; foll, breviler petiolatis ovatis oblusis grosse crenalis, 

 basi cordalis, utrinq. molliler pubescentib,; verlicillastris densis paucifloris, in- 

 feriorib. remolis, superiorib. approximatis; bracteis calyces aequantib. denlibq. 

 calycinis longe subulalis; corolla tubo dentibus calycinis vix longiore. 2j. — Ha- 

 bilat in Tauro. 



31. N. CILIARIS Bth. in Wall. Plant. Asiat. rarior. I. 64. el Labiat, I. c, f — Erecla 

 cano-pubescens: foll, petiolalis late ovatis obtusis crenatis, basi cordatis, subtus 

 V, utrinq, cano-tomentosis; racemis subsimplicib ; bracteis ovatis v, lale lanceo- 

 latis, exteriorib. calycem subaequantib.; calycis elongati pubescentis incurvi ore 

 obliquo, dentib. lanceolalo- subulatis subpalentib.; corollis calyce subduplo lon- 

 gioribus. ^ — Habitus et inflorescentia iV. ruderalis, a qua differl foliis ramisque 

 saepius canescentibus, floralibus ovatis membranaceis, anle anlhesin subimbri- 

 catis et praeserlim bractearum forma. Racemus fere semper simplex et cymae 

 subsessiles. Folia caulina superiora parva remota in exemplaribus Royleanis, 

 majora et cum floralibus infimis caeteris conformia in speciminibus cultis ex 

 Nepalia. — Crescit in India orientali, in Nepalia, versus Cashemeriam. 



32. N. RUDERALIS Hamilt. mss. ex Bih. 1. 1, c. c, — Suberecta, tenuiler pubescens: 

 foll, peliolatis ovatis obtusis crenatis, basi cordatis, utrinq. pubescentib. subvi- 

 ridib.; racemis subsimplicib. secundis; cymis densis, inferiorib, pedunculalis; 

 bracleis subulatis , exteriorib, calyces aequantib,; calycis ovali pubescentis ore 

 obliquo, dentib. subulatis, superiorib, longiorib,; corollis calyce dimidio longio- 

 ribus. 2|. — Caulis 1-2-pedaIis ramosus, obtuse tetragonus, pubescentia brevi 



