XCVIII. LABIATiE. 453 



the dried plants and flowers are employed in native medicine and are 

 largely imported into Bombay from the Persian Gulf. Grab. Cat. 

 p. 149; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl." p. 66; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 595. 



Lavandula vera, DC, the True Lavender, so well known in English 

 gardens, does not flourish in Bombay, where it sometimes drags out a 

 sickly existence as a pot-plant about bungalows. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. Qd ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 596. 



11. POGOSTEMON, Desf. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite (rarely ternale). Flowers 

 small, in simple or panicled spikes or contracted racemes formed of 

 many dense-flowered subcapitate cymes (whorls). Calyx subequally 

 5-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped, 4-lobed ; upper lip 3-lobed, the middle 

 lobe often longer and narrower than the lateral ones ; lower lip flat, 

 spreading, narrow, entire. Stamens 4, exserted, subequal, straight or 

 declinate ; filaments usually bearded ; authei'-cells confluent. Ovary 

 4-partite; style shortly 2-fid, the lobes equal, subulate. Emit of 4 

 smooth ovoid or ellipsoid dry nutlets, one of the faces often angled. — 

 DiSTBiB. India and E. Asia ; species about 30. 



Opposite pairs of leaves very unequal ; bracts obliquely 



ovate or suborbieular, imbricate, 1. P. iMniculatus. 



Opposite pairs of leaves not very unequal. 



Stems glabrous or nearly so, smooth and shining ; leaves 



with an odor of black currants 2. P . 2Mrvifloms. 



Stems hoary-pubescent or villous. 



Calyx-teeth short 3. P. plecfmnfJioides. 



Calyx-teetli nearly as long as the tube 4. P. purpurascens. 



1. Pogostemon paniculatus, Bentli. in WaU. PI. As. Bar. v. 1 

 (1830) p. 30. An erect branched herb 2-4 ft. high ; stems slender, 

 hairy. Leaves usually in unequal opposite pairs, one of them smaller 

 than the other, thinly membranous, 1-5 by |-3 in., ovate, irregularly 

 inciso-serrate, hairy with appressed hairs on both sides, reticulately 

 veined, base cuneate ; petioles g-| in. long. Elovvers in axillary and 

 terminal interrupted slender spikes 4-8 in. long, forming a paniculate 

 inflorescence ; whorls globose, distant in the lower part of the spike, 

 becoming closer near the top, secund ; bracts :f by ^ in., thin, broadly 

 obliquely ovate, or suborbieular, subacute, membranous, arranged in an 

 imbricate series, veined, pubescent and ciliate. Calyx i in. long, 

 narrowly tubular, pubescent ; teeth lanceolate, acute, equal. Corolla 

 ^-1 in. long ; tube very slender. Pilaments bearded. Nutlets ^ in. 

 long, broadly ovoid, smooth. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 631 ; Grab. Cat. p. 149 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 207 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 3G1. 

 — Elowers : Dec. 



Eare. Konkan : Stoclsl; S. Konkan, Graham, Bahell 4" Gibsoji. Kanaka: 

 Halyal (N. Kauara), JVoodrow. — Distuib. India (W. Peninsula, Birma). 



2. Pogostemon parviflorus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. v. 1 

 (1830) p. 31. Suffruticose, 4-6 ft. high ; stem and branches obtusely 

 quadrangular, usually purple, smooth and shining or sometimes slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves with a strong odor of black currants when bruised, 



