472 XCVIII, L.VBIAT.T!. 



difim. ; floral leaves lanceolate, deflcxed ; bracts reaching f by y^r in., 

 linear, strongly spinous-pointed, deflexed, pubescent. Calyx | in. long, 

 ribbed, tabular, incurved, the lower part puberulous, the npper part 

 densely pubescent or villous and also bristly with long white hairs ; 

 tube reticulately veined within, not villous at the oblique mouth ; teeth 

 8-9, unequal, the upper much the largest I'eaching g in. long, ovate, 

 acute, the others triangular, all with strong sharp spinous points. 

 Corolla 1 in. long, orange-scarlet ; tube | in. long, glabrous below, densely 

 clothed in the upper part with orange-scarlet hairs, annulate inside 

 with 3 transverse parallel rings of white hairs, the 2 upper rings closer 

 together than the middle and lower rings ; upper lip ^ in. long, densely 

 woolly with orange-scarlet hairs ; lower lip ^-i in. long, deeply 3-lobed, 

 the lobes oblong, obtuse, the middle lobe slightly the longest. ISTutlets 

 ^ in. long, oblong-obovoid, obliquely truncate and with a deep triangular 

 pit at the apex, the inner face sharply angular, the dorsal face rounded, 

 the margins ribbed. I have examined many specimens hut cannot find 

 that the corolla-tube is exserted. F\. B. I. v. 4, p. 691 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 153 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 212 & Suppl. p. 67 ; Wight, Icon. t. 867 ; 

 Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 387; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 •(1899) p. 363 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 857 ; A\^att, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 625. — Plowers : Sept.-Oct. Veen. Dijjmdl ; Matisul. 



Doubtfully indigenous. Common about villages in the Konkan but never at any 

 distance from tlie habitations of man, also pretty common in hill forts in the 

 Decoan. — Distiub. Throughout hotter India cultivated and naturalized; Ceylun, 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



The ash of the flower-heads mixed with curds is applied to ringworm. 



20. NEPETA, Linn. 



Erect or prostate herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually blue or 

 white (rarely yellow) ; whorls axillary or terminal. Calyx tubular, 

 15-nerved ; limb equally 5-toothed, or sub-bilabiate with the 2 lower 

 teeth nan-ower than the 3 upper. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube not annulate 

 within ; throat inflated ; upper lip straight, notched or 2-fid ; lower 

 3-fid, the middle lobe tlie largest. Stamens 4, didynamous, the upper 

 pair the longest ; anther-cells diverging. Disk uniform or enlarged in 

 front. Ovary 4-partite ; style shortly 2-fid ; lobes subequal, subulate. 

 Fruit of 4 ovoid or compressed obtuse dry smooth or granulate nutlets ; 

 basal scar small or oblique. — Disteib. Temperate Europe, N. and S. 

 Africa, Asia ; species about 120. 



Upper caljx-tcctli narrowly triangular, aristate 1. N. riideralis. 



Upper caljx-tcctli broadly triangular, not aristate 2. i\'. homhaiensis. 



1. Kepeta ruderalis, Buch.-Uam. MS. ex IIool: f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 



(1885) p. 661. Annual, 6-18 in. high, branched from the base; 

 branches erect or ascending, obtusely quadrangular, grooved, softly 

 pubescent, often florif'erous almost throughout their entire length. 

 Leaves ^-2 by g-lg in., broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, crenate- 

 serrato, green or hoary, base cordate or truncate ; petioles 5-I4 in. long. 

 Flowers pedicellate, in dense axillary many-flowered pedunculate, ofleu 

 2-bianched cymes, the flowers lateral on the cyme-branches ; peduncles 

 of lower cymes often 1 in. or more long, those of the upper cymes 

 f-hort ; bracts ^-| in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, densely ciliate ; 

 pedicels .\, in. long. Calyx in flouer \ in. long, pubescent and glandular, 



