LABIAT.E. 335 



linear, lanceolate, one-nerved, ciliate. Calyx-tube 

 slightly shorter: mouth quite straight with erect hairs 

 of % inch, and slightly longer linear ciliate teeth. 

 Corolla exserted, upper lip hooded rich brown, lower 

 white. 



Pulneys : on the open hill sides above Silver Cascade, etc., 

 Kukal, and at lower levels but not seen on the higher downs. 

 Not collected on Nilgiris. J^yson 330. Bourne 89, 240, 1339, 

 3018. 



Gen. Dist. Pulney and Mysore hills. 



TEUCRIUM. F.B.I. II2LIII. 



Wood Germander, 

 Herbs or shrubs with whorls in two to six-flowered 

 axillary or terminal spikes, racemes or heads, with the 

 characters of the family and tribe 5 AJUGOIDEM (p. 321), 

 and peculiar in having no upper lip, but in its place a 

 notch through which are exserted the four long curved 

 stamens, a large lower lip with minute or obsolete side 

 lobes and large mid-lobe, and minute nutlets with 

 comparatively very large hilum. Calyx with ten ribs 

 and five nearly equal teeth. 



Species about 100, mostly in temperate and southern 

 Europe. In England 3 species. 



Tcucrium wightii Hook. /.; F.B.I. iv 701, LIII 6. 

 Wight's Germander. A stout stemmed herb with soft 

 rather thick leaves and pale purple flowers in long 

 spikes terminating the upper axillary branches, and so 

 forming large terminal panicles. 



Stem stout, four-angled, covered with soft white 

 deflexed hairs. Leaves ovate-obtuse, soft, rather thick, 

 deeply impressed on the upper side by the closely 

 reticulate venation, shining, but covered below and above 

 with hairs. Stalk J^ to J4 inch. Flowers in whorls 

 of two facing alternately to half right and half left. 



