450 XCVIII. LABIAT.E. 



plants, which are easily grown from cuttings, are much used as orna- 

 mental pot-plants throughout India. A very line variety with velvety 

 crimson leaves is C. Verschaff'eJttii, perhaps a distinct species. Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 361. 



9. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. 



Herbs or uudershrubs. Flowers small, in dense oblong 4-angled or 

 cylindric spikes ; bracts caducous. Calyx suberect, inflated below the 

 middle, 2-lipped or 5-toothed (rarely 1-Hpped) ; upper lip entire and 

 deflexed, or short and minutely .3-lobed ; lower lip short, truncate, 

 obscurely toothed or 0, Corolla 2-lii3ped ; tube slender below, inflated 

 at the throat ; upper lip short, entire or 3-4-fid; lower elongate, concave. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate ; filaments free. Disk lobed. Ovary 

 4-partite ; style 2-fid at the apex. Fruit of 4 ovoid or suborbicuhir 

 smooth dry nutlets ; basal scar small. — Distbib. Species 16, chiefly 

 East Indian. 



Upper lip of fruiting calyx concealing the mouth of the calyx ; 



leaves opposite, petiolate 1. A. carnosus. 



Upper lip of fruiting calyx not concealing the mouth of the 



calyx ; leaves usually verticillate, sessile 2. A. vert ic ilia/ us. 



1. Anisochilus carnosus. Wall. PL As. Ear. v. 2 (1831) p. 18. 

 Annual, erect, 1-2 ft. high; stum stout, bluntly quadrangular, glabrous 

 or linely pubescent, often tinged with red. Leaves 1-2|| by |-1§ in., 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, crenate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent above, usually pubescent beneath, base subcordate or rounded ; 

 petioles ^-If in. long. Flowers sessile, in dense ultimately cylindric 

 spikes |-1| in. long, elongating in fruit ; peduncles long, slender ; 

 bracts g in. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent and glandular, 

 ciliate, veined, caducous. Calyx pubescent, i in. long in flower, some- 

 times g in. long in fruit ; upper lip in fruit ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliolate, decurved over the lower lip and closing the calyx-mouth ; 

 lower lip truncate, the tip very membranous, ciliate, turned back and 

 appressed on the tube by the pressure of the upper lip. Corolla pale- 

 purple, g in. long, pubescent outside ; tube narrow below, inflated 

 above ; upper lip short, erect, with very shallow rounded lobes ; lower 

 lip Jr in. long, concave. Nutlets -^ in. in diam., suborbicular, com- 

 pressed, smooth, polished, brown, Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 627 ; (xrah. Cat. 

 p. 148; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 206; Wight, 111. t. 176 b, fig. 1; Trim. Fi. 

 Cevl. v. 3, p. 376; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 12 (1809) 

 p. 361 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 847 ; AVatt, Diet, Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 254. 

 — Flowers : Sept.-Oct. Veen. Charonvd ; Kdpurli ; Pdnjiri. 



Deccan : Mawal, Woodrow; Junnar, .KanUkarl S. M. Oountky : Belgauin, 

 Cooke\, Ritchie, 1984! — Distrib. India (W. Himalaya, Bengal, Central India, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Ava. 



Vab. enocrpJuilus. More slender; heads more numerous; calyx 

 villous and ghmdular. AnisocJiilus enocephalas (sp.), Benlh, in DC. 

 Prodr. V. 12, p. 81 ; Hook. f. FI, B. I, v, 4, p, 627 ; Woodr, in Journ, 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 361. A. decassatas, Dalz, in Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bo. Fl. p. 206. 



KoNKAN : Ghilts, Woodrow ; on the highest Ghats opposite Bombay in rocky 

 places, Dahell ^- Gibson. Dkccan: Lena near Nnsik, Nairne. 



