XOVIII. LABIAT/E. 455 



4. Pogostemon purpurascens, Dalz. in Keiv Jonm, Bot. v. 2 

 (1850) p. 337. An erect brauclied herb ; stems and branches quad- 

 rangular, furrowed, softly hairy with spreading hairs. Leaves mem- 

 branous, often tinged with purple, 2|-7 by Ij-Sg in., ovate, acute, 

 more or less deeply cut, often doubly serrate, softly hairy on both sides, 

 base cuneate ; petioles |-2 in. long. Flowers in long-pedunculate villous 

 spikes 3-8 in. long ; whorls many-flowered, globose, the upper whorls 

 approximate, the lower usually separate ; bracts ^ in. long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, sometimes slightly falcate, pubescent, penicillate at 

 the tip, ciliate, veined. Calyx 1 in. long, pubescent ; tube pentagonal ; 

 teeth nearly equalling the tube, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate and 

 with penicillate tips. Corolla 5 in. long; tube ^-i in. long, white; 

 upper lip purple with white margin, 3-lobed, the middle lobe oblong, 

 obtuse, longer and narrower than the 2 obtuse lateral ones ; lower lip, 

 white, deltoid-ovate, acute. Stamens bearded. Nutlets -^^ in. long, 

 ovoid, compressed, the inner face angular, the dorsal face rounded, 

 smooth, polished, black when ripe. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 632 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 2()7; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1S99) p. 361.— Flowers : 

 Oct.-Jan. 



KoNKAN : stocks ! ; Ritchie, 641 ! ; shady woods in the Konkan, Dalzcll\ ; Matheran, 

 Cooke \ ; Marmagao, Cooke ! ; Viziadrug Fort, Kanitkar ! Deccan : Khandala, 

 Woodrow\ Kanaka: Law I; Kala naddi, Rifchie, 541! — Distrib. India (W. 

 Peninsula). 



Pogostemon Heyneanus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. v. 1 (1830) p. 31. 

 The PcUcliouhj Plant, grown in gardens and sometimes found as an 

 escape. Its peculiar odor distinguishes it from P. parviflorus, which it 

 much resembles. The dried leaves strewn among wollen cloths are said 

 to keep off insects. Grab. Cat. p. 149 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 207 ; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1440; Jackson, Index Kewen. v. 3 (1895) p. 583; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. v. 3, p. 378. Pogostemon Patchouh/, Pellet, in Mem. Soc. So. 

 Orleans, v. 5 (1845) p. 277, t. 7 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 633 

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

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 66 (Patchowli). — Veen, PdcJi. 



Excluded Species. 



POGOSTEMON MOLLIS, Bentb. Lab. Gen. & Sp. (1833) p. 155. A low softly 

 tomentoso-villous plant branched from the base ; Btein ascending ; leaves orbicular or 

 oblong, crenate ; Ilowers in cylindric spikes, the upper whorls approximate, the lower 

 distant ; bracts lineax'-subulate ; filaments bearded. 



This appears to be a Nilghiri plant growing at high elevations (7000-SOOO ft.). A 

 specimen of Dalzell's in Hei-b. Kew. has no locality marked on the sheet, while the 

 specimen marked " Konkan, Stocks," was not so marked by Stocks, but has merely a 

 printed label on it. The plant has not been found in the Bombay Pi-esideucy so far 

 as I know. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 635. Pogostemon rotuiulatus, Wight, Icon. t. 1441 {not 

 of Benth.). 



12. DYSOPHYLLA, Blume. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or whorled. Flowers minute, 

 in very dense long spikes of many whorled cymes. Calyx minute, ovoid, 

 equally 5-toobhed ; throat naked within. Corolla small, equally 4-fid ; 



