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Plants of the Punjab. 
SHRUBS WITH OpposITE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Hyssopus officinalis, 
Zufah yabis. 
LABIAT. 
F. B. I. iv. 649. 
Himalaya, 
8-11,000 ft. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Micromeria biflora, 
LABIATA. 
Maw; ty. 650. 
Himalaya, 
1-7,000 ft. 
Micromeria 
hydaspidis, 
LABIATA. 
F. B. I. iv. 650. 
Western Kashmir. 
Salvia zgyptiaca, 
Tukhm malanga. 
LABIATA. 
Be B. 1, sy. 656. 
The Plains, 
1-2,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Stachys tibetica, 
LABIATA. 
Bab. 1, iv. 677, 
Northern Kashmir, 
10-14,000 ft. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
small, smooth, stem below branched, woody, branch- 
es erect ; leaves 4 in. long, sessile, lanceolate, not toothed ; 
flowers bluish-purple in axillary or terminal spikes, calyx 
2-lipped, 5-toothed, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip erect, 
notched, lower spreading, 8-lobed, middle lobe very 
broad, stamens 4, unequal, protruding; nutlets narrow, 
smooth, 3-cornered. This plant was once used in 
Kurope as a tonic and stimulant. 
dwarf, prostrate, hairy, woody, branches very nu- 
merous, tufted, leafy, slender, something like Thymus 
in appearance, but not scented; leaves %-4 in., sessile, 
ovate, short-pointed, toothed or not ; flowers pink, stalked, 
small, in axillary circles of one to four, calyx 5-toothed 
equally, 18-nerved, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip erect, 
notched, lower 3-lobed, spreading, stamens 4 in unequal 
pairs ; nutlets smooth. 
very small, stem erect, rather stout, leaves 4-2 in., 
shortly stalked, minutely toothed, ovate, blunt, flowers 
shortly stalked in continuous or interrupted crowded 
circular clusters forming spikes; otherwise like the last 
species. 
very small, rough, hairy, branches widely separating 
from the base, rigid; leaves # in., small, nearly sessile, 
few, linear, rigid, acute, minutely toothed ; flowers } in. 
long, in small circular clusters on slender branching 
racemes, whitish lilac, bracts small, lower leaf-like, upper 
lanceolate, calyx glandular, hairy, 2-lipped, upper 
lip orbicular, minutely toothed, corolla 2-hpped, upper 
lip nearly straight, short, flattened, concave, stamens 2, 
style 2-fid; nutlets +4, im. long, narrow, oblong, black. 
The seeds are used in Indian medicine as an astringent. 
rootstock woody, thick, stems twiggy ; leaves 4-14 in, 
long, oblong to linear, blunt, shortly stalked, some- 
times irregularly lobular; flowers pink, sessile, in small 
circular clusters, axillary, calyx } in., bell-shaped, tips 
long, corolla ?-1 in. long, 2-lipped, upper lip ereet, long, 
narrow, lower spreading, 38-lobed, middle lobe largest, 
stamens 4; nutlets 4 in. long, broadly oblong. 
