LABIATE. 329 



SCUTELLARIA, f.b.i. 112 xxxii. 



Skullcap. 

 Herbs or undershrubs with flowers variously arranged 

 in leafy spikes, racemes, or few at the leaf-axils, and the 

 characters of the family and tribe 4 STACHYDEM 

 (p. 321), but with the calyx distinctly two-lipped and 

 closed in fruit, and peculiar in the upper lip being deci- 

 duous and having a large deciduous pouch (skullcap) on 

 the upper side. 



Species 180, all over the world except South Africa and rare 

 in tropical Africa. India has 14, Europe and northern Asia 

 60. Fr. Toque, Ger. Lebenkraut. 



Scutellaria wioldiQZ^ Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 2136 ! ; F.B.I. iv 



668, XXXII 4. Stem ^ to 2 feet. Leaves % to I J^ by Yz 



to i^ inches, sparingly hairy on both sides. Spikes 6 to 



12 inches. Flowers two only at a leaf-axil; bracts 1/16 



to 1/8 inch ; pedicels twice as long. Calyx 1/12 inch. 



Corolla tube J^ to M inch, white tinged with purple or 



pink. In fruit upper pouched lip of calyx J4 to J^ inch ; 



lower J^ inch. t. 219. Wight Ic. 1. 1449, 111. t. 176 hisf. 7. 



In woods and moist shady places, common. Fyson 304, 

 319, 675, 1407, 1759, 3073. Bourne 236, 915, etc. 



Gen. Dist. Hills of South India and Ceylon. 



Scutellaria rivularis Wall ; F.B.I. iv 670, XXXII 13. 

 Stem creeping below, above erect, seldom branched, 6 to 

 8 inches. Leaves % to I by 1/6 to 1/5 inch, subsessile, 

 lanceolate, obtuse ; passing above into the floral bracts. 

 Flowers axillary on short stalks. Corolla J^ inch, blue. 



Nilgiris : Pykara, Bourne 2337. 



Gen. Dist. Nepal, Khasia, Burma, China, South Indian mountains. 



BRUNELLA. f.b.i. 112 xxxiii. 

 Self-Heal. 

 Small herbs with the characters of the family and 

 tribe 4 STACHYDEM (p. 321), but with a distinctly 



