452 XCVIII, LABIAT.^. 



lowei' leaves with long petioles, the upper soraetimes nearly sessile, all 

 green and softly villous oa both sides. Flowers in dense simple or 

 slightly branched villous spikes 1-4 in. long; bracts g in. long, ovate 

 or obovate-oblong, acuminate, strongly parallel-nerved, pubescent, 

 ciliate, persistent, each with a single flower in its axil. Fruiting calyx 

 villous, tubular, rather more than | in. long, 15-ribbed ; teeth equal, 

 lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Corolla | in. long ; tube ^ in. long, very 

 slender below, slightly dilated above; upper lip oblong with 2 short 

 obtuse lobes ; lower lip cJ-lobed, the middle lobe much longer and 

 broader than the oblong obtuse lateral ones. Nutlets -^ by yL^ in., 

 ellipsoid-oblong, smooth, mucilaginous when wetted, black when ripe, 

 with a large white oblong areole on the dorsal side. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 631 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 361. Lavandula 

 Ferrottetii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. v. 12(1848) p. 147; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 206. L. Lawii, Wight, Icon. 1. 1439.— Flowers: Nov.-Apr. A'ern. 

 Nivale. 



Konkan: S/ocksl Deccan : Ghats on the road from Poona to Mahableshwar, 

 H. M. Birdwood ; Fort of Pandughar, Graham ; bills near Poona, Woodrotv ! ; 

 Panchgani, Cookel ; Kartriz Ghat, KanUkar\; hills at Sattara, Wight, 149 !, BahellSf 

 Gibson. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Lavandula Burmauni, Benih. Lah. Gen. Sf Sp. (1833) p. 151. 

 A slender erect herb ; stems simple or branched, leafy, quadrangular, 

 finely pubescent. Leaves sessile or nearly so, 11-4 in. long and as 

 broad as long, pinnatipartite or very deeply piiniatisect, the lobes linear, 

 entire, cut or toothed, obtuse or subacute, j^h "i- broad (rarely broader), 

 glabrous or pubescent above, pale and pubescent beneath. Flowers in 

 spikes which are simple or with few or many branches, sometimes 

 umbellately arranged ; bracts finely pubescent, persistent, \-l in. long 

 with a short, broadly-ovate, strongly nerved base, produced into a long 

 capillary awn at the apex. Fruiting calyx \ in. long, tubular, slightly 

 curved, clothed with fine hoary pubescence ; teeth equal, lanceolate, 

 acute, with penicillate tips. Corolla blue or white, pubescent outside, 

 exceeding ^ in. long ; tube \ in. long, the lower half veiy slender, the 

 upper half "slightly dilated; upper lip | in. long, oblong, with 2 short 

 rounded lobes ; lower lip 5-partite, the middle lobe oblong, rounded, 

 more than twice as long as the ovate obtuse lateral lobes. Nutlets j^^ 

 by J^ in., oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, very mucilaginous when wetted, 

 black when ripe, with a large white oblong areole on the dorsal side. Fl. 

 B. I. v. 4, p. 631 ; Grab. Cat. p. 149 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 207 ; AVight, Icon, 

 t. 1438; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 361; Brain, 

 Beng. PL p. 848. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. Veen. Ghodeyhui ; Gorea. 



Konkan: StocJc&\; Salsette, Law\ Deccan: common, Graham; Deccan lulls, 

 Cooli-c\, Woodrow I ; Khandesh, Kanitkarl — Distrib. India (Chota Nagpur, Jubbul- 

 pore, W. Peninsula). 



Lavandula Sfoechas, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 573. A shrub 2-3 ft. 

 high with oblong-linear entire glaucous leaves with revolute margins, 

 and dark-])uri)le fio\\ers in dense spikes, a native of the Mediterranean 

 regions, has been grown in gardens in Belgaum and Dharwar, where it 

 is said to have been introduced from th{> Ca])e of Good Hope. 



Though not grown for economic i)urposes in the Bombay Presidency, 



