368 Labiatce. [Geniospofwn.. 



1. G. elongratum, Bciith. Lab. 21 (1832). 



Rhimmihus inditci, Burm. Fl. Ind. 131 (?; (non L.). Thw. Enum. 236, 

 C. P. 2080. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 610. Burm. f. Fl. Ind. t. 39, f. i (?). 



Perennial (?), stems 2-4 ft., erect or ascending, usually 

 unbranched, quadrangular, slightly hispid-pubescent ; 1. few,, 

 nearly sessile, distant, ii-2^ in., linear- lanceolate, much 

 tapering to base, acute or subacute, serrate, hairy on both 

 sides ; fl. numerous, crowded, sessile, whorls many, the lower 

 ones distinct, the upper ones closely placed, forming a long- 

 stalked, narrow, cylindrical, spicate infl. ^,-6 in. long and often 

 branched at the base, bracts large, conspicuous, often recurved,, 

 very broadly ovate, upper ones rounded, lower ones acute and 

 often with a leafy point, entire, pubescent, veined, white, per- 

 sistent ; cal.-segm. hairy, upper segm. large, oval, flat, obtuse,, 

 glabrous, veined, longer than lowest pair. 



Montane zone, on patana land from 3000-6000 ft.; rather rare. 

 Hantane ; Pusselawe ; Nuwara Eliya; abundant on the Uva patanas. 

 Fl. October-March; pink. 



Also in Peninsular India (Jeypur Hills). 



The large white bracts are very characteristic; they are entirely 

 omitted in Burman's figure, which has also the fl. on ped., and I should 

 certainly refer his plant (as I did in Journ. Linn. Soc. .xxiv. 145) to- 

 G. elojii^ation were it not that Bentham, who saw the type-specimen,, 

 found it to be the present species. It is difficult, however, to understand 

 how Hermann could have obtained this montane plant; it is not in his 

 own Herbarium. 



2. G. prostratum, Bcnth. in PL As. Rar. ii. 18 (1831). 



Burm. Thes. 158. Fl. Zeyl. n. 229. Ocimiiin tenuijlonim, L. Sp. PL 

 597, and O. jucfit/ioidcs, 598. Thw. Enum. 237. C. P. 2079. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 610. Burm. Thes. t. 70, f. 2 (very good). 



Annual, stems either diffuse, ascending, prostrate and 

 rooting or quite erect, much branched, more or less hispid 

 with weak deflexed hair ; 1. 1-2 in., linear- or oblong- 

 lanceolate, much tapering to base, acute or subacute, usually 

 sharply serrate, with a few long hairs on both sides, petiole 

 obscure ; fl. on rather long slender curved ped., whorls distinct, 

 in slender racemes 2-6 in. long, bracts small, ovate, acute, 

 reflexed ; cal. pubescent, upper segm. broad, rounded, flat, 

 about as long as or rather shorter than lowest pair; cor. hair\- ; 

 achenes very minute, nearly globose, smooth. 



Var. p, graclle, Thw. Etuun. 237. (7. gradlc, Benth. Lab. 21. 

 C. P. 2078. 



Nearly glabrous; 1 narrower. 



Sandy ground, especially near the sea, and in tlie dry region, common. 

 Fl. Dec. -March ; pink. 

 Also in .S. India. 



