326 LABIATE. 



Spikes at the ends of the now leafless shoots at 

 length a solid mass of small calyxes, with mouths of 1/20 

 inch, arched over by the upper lip. t. 216. Wight Ic t. 

 1434. 



In dry places, tops of the higher hills, etc., very abundant, e.g., 

 Elk hill and Snowdon near Ootacamund. Also lower down on 

 the Pykara slopes, Flowering December, only old fruiting 

 spikes seen in summer. Fyson 1494, 2012. Bourne 17 15, 2336. 



The species was founded on a plant of Wight's, and varies slightly. 

 At lower levels the leaves are smaller, the spikes narrower and stalked, 

 and the flowers white — this is Wight's plant and he called it alhidus. The 

 highland form (described above) has thicker leaves and thicker nearly 

 sessile spikes. A specimen of this in Herb, Wight is marked A.purpurens, 



POGOSTEMON. f.b.i. 112 xii. 



Herbs or undershrubs with the characters of the family 

 and tribe 2 SAIUREINEM (p. 321), and remarkable for 

 the very dense spikes in which the flowers appear in 

 tight wedge-shaped bunches (reminding one of the spike- 

 lets of wheat) ; and distinguished further by the calyx 

 having five equal teeth, the corolla four nearly equal lobes, 

 by the four straight often hairy filaments and one-celled 

 anthers. 



Species 28 to 30 in India, Malaya and Japan. 



Pogostemon mollis Benth., Herb. Wight 2525 ! ; F.B.I. 



iv 635, XII 17. All green parts densely tomentose, or 



glabrous. Leaf-stalks % inch, blade J^ to I by ^. inch, 



toothed. Spikes dense 3 to 6 inches. Calyx % inch ; 



teeth slender 1/30 inch. Corolla white, its tube hardly 



exserted from the calyx. Filaments of stamens bearded. 



Wight Ic. t. 1441 (but lower leaves too large). 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund, Lovedale, Coonoor, flowering Octo- 

 ber to March. Apparently only on these hills. Fyson 2025. 



I have a form also with large bracts, conspicuously longer than the 

 flowers, all green parts shaggy, calyx-teeth more slender, flowers larger, 

 and leaves also larger with larger teeth. Collected in Ootacamund in 

 December. 



