XCVIII. LABIATE. 457 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! 



There is but one sheet iu Herb. Kew. marked as above with a printed ticket; other- 

 wise I liave seen no specimens from Bombay. AVoodrow in his list gives "Belgaura, 

 ^iVc/^/e," but I Ijave seen no specimens from Belgaum. Graham gives " liills about 

 Goa," but it is doubtful if Graham's plant is D. aiiriciilaria ; it is more probably 

 D. salicifolia whicli is common in watercourses at Maliableshwar which he also assigns 

 as a habitat of his D. auricularla. — Distrib. India (Sikkim, Assam, E. Bengal, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, China, Borneo, Philippines. 



3. Dysophylla salicifolia, Dalz. MS. ex Hool: f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 



(1885) p. &6S. Erect, mucli-branclied, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches 

 round or subquadrangular, reddish, the younger sparsely appressedly 

 hairy. Leaves 1-3| by ^-h in., lanceolate, acute, entire or distantly 

 serrate, appressedly hairy when young, gland-dotted, base very acute, 

 running down into the petiole which is often obscure. Flowers in dense 

 shortly pedunculate villous spikes 1-3 in. long ; bracts g-i- iu. long, 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute, hairy. Calyx yV"!^ ^^- long, hairy ; teeth 

 triangular, equal, nearly as long as the tube. Corolla scarcely g in. 

 long, purple ; tube slightly exserted ; lobes subequal, oblong, obtuse. 

 Nutlets -glj in. long, ellipsoid, smooth, the inner face slightly angular, 

 the dorsal face rounded. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 361. — Plowers : Jan.-Apr. 



Deccan : abundant at Mahableshwar in watercourses, Cooke\, Law], Woodrow. 

 S. M. Country : Hingregi watercourse, Belgaum, Bitchie, 1990 ! — Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



4. Dysophylla quadrifolia, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. v. 1 

 (1830) p. 30. A stout erect undershrub with an odor of camphor, 

 2-4 ft. high ; rootstock woody ; stems not much branched, round, 

 pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 4 in a whorl, 1-4 by g-^ in., shortly 

 petiolate, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, usually 

 serrate, softly pubescent on both sides, base narrowed. Flowers in 

 dense tomentose or pubescent spikes 3-6 by ^-5 in., sometimes inter- 

 rupted near the base ; bracts -^ in. long, linear-spathulate, hairy. 

 Calyx obconic, -^ in. long, pubescent ; teeth about 5 as long as the 

 tube, triangular, ciliate. Corolla g iu. long, rose-colored ; tube yu ^^• 

 long ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Nutlets J^- in. long, broadly ellipsoid or 

 subglobose, microscopically papilloso-rugulose, black. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 639 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 361 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 850. Dysophylla rupestris, Dalz. iu Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 120 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 208. 



Stocks without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Malwan on rocks, Bahelll ; near 

 Vingorla, Bcdzell S( Gibson. — Distrib. India (Assam, Birma, Chittagong, W. 



Peninsula). 



5. Dysophylla stellata, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. v. 1 (1830) 

 p. 30. A low herb ; stems numerous, erect, 3-8 in. long, simple or 

 branched, leafy and with short internodes from a creeping rootstock. 

 Leaves many iu a whorl, sessile, -^-g by sij-yV ^^^•' lii^e^'i'i') subacute, more 

 or less pubescent, entire, with revolute margins and a strong midnerve, 

 base obtuse. Plowers sessile, in dense pubescent or tomentose spikes 

 1-2| by \ in. ; bracts persistent after the fruit falls, yq-q ^^- long, 

 consisting of a lanceolate acute blade 2Ty~TV ^'^' lo"g' b^'it ^^ an angle 

 where it joins the stalk, ciliate and terminated at the apex by 2 or 3 

 transparent bristles, the blade on a filiform pitbescent stalk about as 



