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2. Anisochilus verticillatus, Hool\ f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1885) 

 p. Q>2'i). An erect lierb 1^-3 ft. high ; stem simple, silk^y-villous, deeply 

 grooved, stout. Leaves usually in close whorls oi: 4-6 (rarely in opposite 

 pairs), sessile, Ig-S^ by |-f in., smaller upwards, oblong-lanceolate, 

 subacute, entire or crenulate, densely silky-villous on both sides, base 

 narrowed. Flowers sessile in dense pedunculate cylindric spikes 3-9 in. 

 long ; bracts | in. long, lanceolate, very acute, pubescent, conspicuous 

 on the young spikes. Fruiting calyx 4 in. long, shortly cylindric, 

 densely pubescent and glandular ; tube reflexed about the middle ; upper 

 lip short, truncate or sometimes shortly and bluntly acuminate, not 

 concealing the lower lip ; lower lip truncate, obscurely toothed. 

 Corolla exceeding | in, long, pale-blue, pubescent and glandular ; tube 

 deflexed, | iu. long ; upper lip broadly ovate or suborbicular, g in. 

 long, with 4 shallow obtuse lobes ; lower lip longer than the upper, 

 concave. Nutlets -^ in. in diam., suborbicular, compressed, smooth, 

 polished, brown. — Flowers : Oct. 



Bahcll withoiU, locality in Herb. Kew. ! Deccax : Mahableshwar, CooJicl S. M. 

 Country : Cheeta hill, Belgaum, Ritchie, 546 ! ; Pai'va Ghat, Ritchie, 1985 ! — Distrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula). 



UsTKNowN Species. 



AmSOCHILUS ABENANTRUS, Dalz. in Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 206. 

 Spikes dense, pyramidal ; floral leaves lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, 3-nerved, 

 3 lines long ; calyx minute, oblique, truncate, scarcely toothed, tomentose on the 

 outside ; corolla glandular-dotted, 5 lines long, tomentose outside, lower lip long, 

 entire, boat-shaped, upper 3-4-lobed, rounded, obtuse, short. 



The above is the description in Dalzell & Gibson's Bombay Flora {I. c). There are 

 no specimens in Dalzell's herbarium in Herb. Kew., and as Dalzell states that part 

 of his specimens had been lost, there does not seem any likelihood of finding out what 

 plant is meant. The habitat is given near Dharwar (S. M. Country). It may perhaps 

 be Anisochilus verticillatus. Hook, f., which has been found in the S. M. Country. 



10. LAVANDULA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves incised or entire. Flowers in 2-10- 

 flowered whorls collected in simple or branched spikes ; bracts persistent. 

 Calyx erect, ovoid-tubular, shortly equally 5-toothed, 13-15-nerved. 

 Corolla blue or purple (rarely white), oblique, 2-lipped ; upper lip 2-fid ; 

 lower lip 3-partite with spreading lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 declinate, included ; filaments free ; anther-cells confluent. Disk 

 equally 4-Iobed, the nutlets dorsally attached to the lobes leaving a 

 large areole on separation. Ovary 4-partite ; style shortly 2-fid, the 

 lobes flattened. Fruit of 4 dry smooth nutlets ; basal scar slightly 

 oblique. — Distrib. Species about 30, chiefly Mediterraueau, 2 species 

 in India. 



Stems villous ; leaves petiolate, pinnatisect, the lobes broad, 



oblong; bracts not awned 1. L. Gihsoni. 



Stems finely pubescent ; leaves subsessile, pinnatipartite, the 



lobes narrow, linear ; bracts with a long capillary awn 2. L. Burmanni. 



1. Lavandula Gibsoni, Orali. Cat. Bo. PI. (1839) p. 149. An 

 erect villous herb 2-3 ft. high ; stem quadrangular, leafy, usually 

 simple, densely villous. Leaves 1-6 in. long, smaller upwards, deeply 

 pinnatisect, the lobes oblong, usually obtuse, pinnatifid or toothed, the 



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