Labiate. 3^5 



inches long. Upper lip of calyx broadly ovate, in fruit 

 "% inch : lower teeth four, as long, slender. Corolla pale 

 blue ; upper lip ^ inch, lower ^ inch. Nutlets about 

 1/30 inch. t. 215. Wight Ic. t. 1432. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund, etc., flowers in August. Pulneys : 

 only at low levels. Fyson 3069, 1238. Bourne 129, 281, 

 577, 5230, etc. 



Gen. Dist. Himalaya mountains and mountains of central and southern 

 India, Poona and Western Ghauts remaining up to our levels. 



ANISOCHILUS. F.B.I. 112 X. 



Herbs having the characters of the family and tribe 

 I OCIMOIDEJE (p, 321), with flowers in dense, long or 

 short spikes. Calyx with truncate or oblique nearly 

 toothless mouth, Corolla small, its slender tube bent 

 down: lower lip boat-shaped: upper of three or four 

 teeth. Stamens bent down inside the lower lip. 



Species 20 in India and tropical Africa. 



Anisochilus dysophyllcides Bentham, Wall. Cat. 2756; 

 F.B.I, iv 628, X 6. Grows in grey rounded masses a 

 foot or so high on exposed summits and hill-sides ; 

 flowering in the winter, in summer showing only thin 

 dried cylindrical fruiting spikes ; quite common. 



Stem woody, covered with a thick coat of erect hairs, 

 leafless. Annual leafy shoots round, silky all over, as 

 also the leaves. Leaves broadly obovate or elliptic, I by 

 %. inch, with shallow crenations in the further half, 

 thick and juicy, aromatic if crushed : midrib broad and 

 white, with two to three pairs of nerves. Flowers minute, 

 crowded, with broad bracts, into erect cylindrical 

 (compound) spikes I to 3 by 1/5 to 1/3 inch, terminating 

 the annual shoot or peduncled in the upper axils. 

 Calyx with five small equal teeth, thickly covered with 

 small red glands. Corolla J^ inch, its lobes 1/30 inch, the 

 lowest slightly larger than the others, purple. Fruiting 



