Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstipuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Calamintha 
Clinopodium, 
Wild basil, 
LABIATA. 
BS Liv, G50! 
Himalaya, 
4-12,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Changlagali (Douie). 
Brunella vulgaris, 
Self-heal, 
Austakhadus. 
LABIATA. 
Poybel.ry. 670; 
Himalaya, 
4-11,000 ft. i 
Simla, common on 
roadsides (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Murree (Douie). 
Stachys parviflora, 
Plants of the Punjab. 177 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR, 
INNER PAIR LONGEST. 
medium size, rootstock woody, stems slender, almost 
unbranched, hairy; leaves 1-2 in., ovate, just pointed, 
hardly toothed; flowers 3-1 in., purple or pink, in large 
crowded compact circular clusters, each surrounded by 
many, long, linear, hairy bracts, equal in length to the 
calyx, calyx 4 in., 2-lipped, curved, hairy, 13-nerved, 
upper lip 8-toothed, lower bifid, teeth nearly equal, very 
slender, corolla hairy, tube straight, 2-lipped, upper lp 
erect, flattish, lower spreading, 38-lobed, stamens 4, in 
unequal pairs under the upper lip, style lobes equal ; 
nutlets 4, minute, nearly round, smooth. 
OUTER PAIR LONGEST. 
small, perennial, rootstock creeping, stem erect 
or partially so, thinly hairy ; leaves 1-2 in., stalked, ovate 
or oblong, sometimes toothed, pointed or blunt, upper 
leaves sessile ; flowers 4-3? ‘n. long, violet purple, rarely 
white, in clustered circles of 6, crowded in erect, terminal 
spikes 1-2 in. long, with a pair of sessile leaves at the 
base, floral leaves bract-like, hairy, purple edged, broadly . 
ovate, short-pointed, calyx tinged with purple, bell-shaped, 
9-lipped, upper lip broad, 3-toothed, lower lip deeply 
bifid, mouth closed after flowering, corolla tube longer 
than the calyx, 2-lipped, upper lip erect, hood-like, notched, 
lower spreading, 3-lobed, midelobe largest, minutely toothed, 
stamens 4 in unequal pairs under the upper lip, with a 
small projection below the anthers, style lobes awl-shaped ; 
nutlets 4, oblong, smooth. The plant is used in Indian 
medicine as an expecto’ant and anti-spasmodic. 
see Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Toothed. 
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