328 LABIATE. 



2 to 6 inches, slender, occasionally branched, glabrous 

 pubescent or sparingly hairy. Leaves /4 inch, ovate 

 acute, subsessile, at internodes of ^ to I inch. Flowers 

 in small cymes at the leaf-axils. Calyx slender, i/6 by 

 1/20 inch. Corolla ^ inch, strongly scented, t. 218. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1446, 111. t. 176 hisf. 5. 



On the downs, all over in grass, common. Fyson 347, 2 no. 

 Bourne 21, 600, 17 18. 



Gen. Dist, Higher mountains of South India, Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to Bhotan. Afghanistan, Arabia, Abyssinia, South Africa. 



CALAMINTHA. f.b.i. 112 xxiv. 



Catmin, 



Herbs with ovate toothed leaves, and loose or dense 

 whorls of purplish flowers, with the characters of the 

 tribe 2 SATUREINEM (p. 321), but the calyx two-lipped. 

 Ribs of calyx thirteen. Corolla much as in MICROMERIA. 



Species about 50, in north temperate regions. In Europe 

 about 30. Eng. Wild Basil, Basil Thyme, Catmint, etc. 



Calamintha umbrosa Benth. ; F.B.I. iv 650, XXIV 2 ; 

 Catmint. Stem rising to three feet, weak at the base, 

 pubescent or sparingly hirsute. Leaves J^ to ij^ inches, 

 ovate, acute, serrate, shortly stalked, pubescent on both 

 sides. Whorls lax or dense flowered, in the leaf-axils and 

 at the ends of short branches: bracts subulate. Calyx 

 hairy, % to J4 inch, slender, purplish : upper teeth 

 triangular, lower longer subulate. Wight Ic. t. 1447. 



In woods, etc., on the downs. Fyson 356, 549, 1214, 1232, 

 1868, 2528, 2122, 3072. Bourne "j^i^^ 1719, 1467. 



Very similar to C. clinopodium Benth. the Wild Basil of England, 

 which extends eastwards to Kashmir, and perhaps only a form of it, 

 differing chiefly in the stem being weak at the base, and the lower calyx- 

 teeth longer than the upper. 



