582 LabiatCE. {Scutellaria. 



Stems numerous, decumbent or ascending, slender, qua- 

 drangular, pubescent with deflexed silky hair ; 1. small, about 

 I in., on very short ped., ovate, rounded at base, subacute, 

 coarsely crenate-serrate, slightly pubescent above, hairy on 

 margins and veins beneath ; fl. small, on short slender ped., 

 in rather lax clusters, whorls few, closely placed so as to form 

 a nearly globose head (lengthening out in fruit), bracts linear, 

 longer than ped., hairy; cal. -glandular-hairy, segm. ciliate with 

 long white hairs; cor. pubescent outside, lobes rounded. 



Upper montane zone in grassy places; common about Nuwara Eliya, 

 &c. Fl. Sept., Oct.; pink-mauve. 



Also in the Himalaya and Nilgiri Mountains, and from the Caucasus 

 to Japan. 



Scarcely distinguishable from the C. Clinopodiinn of the English 

 chalk-downs. Wight's figure represents a very robust specimen. 



12. SCUTEX.ZiARZA, Z. 



Perennial herbs, fl. opp., solitary, in erect terminal racemes; 

 cal. 2-lipped, lips rounded, quite entire, without segm., mouth 

 closed in fruit, upper lip with a large erect pouch or sac on 

 the back ; cor.-tube long, abruptly curved at base, erect, com- 

 pressed, slender, upper lip arched, compressed, slightly lobed, 

 lower lip large, rounded, 3-lobed ; stam. 4, nearly equal, anth. 

 distinct, upper ones 2-celled, lower i -celled ; achenes small, 

 finely granulated. — Sp. 90; 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Bracts shorter than ped i. S. VIOLACEA. 



Bracts as long as or longer than ped. 



Stem, leaves, and cal. hairy . . . . 2. S. ROBUSTA. 



Stem, leaves, and cal. glabrous . . . 3. S. OBLONGA. 



I. S. violacea, Hcyne in Wall. Cat. n. 2136 (1828). 

 S. iiulica, Moon Cat. 44 (non L.). S.Jloribunda, Benth. in DC. Prod, 

 xii. 418. Ihw. Enum. 239. C. P. 217, 2716, 302. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 668. Wight, Ic. t. 1449. 



Stems numerous, erect prostrate or ascending, bluntly 

 quadrangular, glabrous or pubescent; 1. variable in size, ^3 

 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subcordate at base, usually 

 acute, coarsely crenatc- or dentate-serrate, glabrous above, 

 finely pubescent beneath, petiole often as long as 1., pube- 

 rulous ; fl. rather large, on short, spreading, glandular- 

 pubescent ped., bracts oblong, obtuse, shorter than ped.; 

 cor.-tube \ in., pubescent outside; achene subglobose. 



Var. ft, g^labra, Trim. Sysl. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 70. .s'. oblouga, var. 

 major., Benth. 1. c. 41 8. .S'. violacea, var. /3, Thw. Eniiir. 240. C. P. 3370. 



