Plants of the Punjab. 198 
Heres, Erzot, wire Opposite Exsrrputate SimpLe LEAvEs. 
Mentha arvensis, 
Corn Mint, 
Pudinah. 
LABIATA. 
iE. B. 1. iv. 648. 
Kashmir, 
5-10,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Maynard). 
Micromeria biflora 
and hydaspidis, 
Lycopus 
europeus, 
Gipsywort, 
Jalnim. 
LABIATH. 
F. B. I. iv. 648. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Matiana, in marshy 
ground (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
8-6,000 ft. 
Blepharis sindieca, 
ACANTHACEA. 
Re belietv. 409: 
The Plains. 
_ Lear Maretns TootHED. 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
medium size, hairy or smooth, leaves 1-2 in., flowers 
in round axillary head-like clusters ; in other respects like 
the last species. This plant is much cultivated, it is used 
ag a carminative, diuretic, and stimulant. } 
see Shrubs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, Corolla 
2-lipped. 
STAMENS TWO. 
medium size to large, perennial, slightly hairy, root 
stock creeping or with runners ; leaves oblong, narrowed 
to each end, nearly sessile, toothed, or pinnately divided ; 
flowers small, very many, bluish-white, in dense axillary 
clusters, calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-toothed, teeth equal, 
narrowly lanceolate, corolla bell-shaped, slightly longer 
than the calyx, 4-lobed, stamens 2, rather long ;nutlets 4, 
smooth, longer than the calyx tube, ovate, with a broad 
tip. This plant is used asa cooling medicine. 
CoROLLA ONE-LIPPED. 
small, rough or prickly; leaves 1-2 in., linear or 
narrowly oblong, velvety, toothed or spinous ; flowers 
1.2 in. ,blue, in few- or many-flowered, 2-3 in. long spikes, 
bracts 1 in. or more, ovate with spreading lanceolate tips, 
prickly, hairy within and without, bracetoles 4 in., linear, 
hairy, shorter than the bracts, calyx 4-lobed, 2 outer 
lobes 2 in., ovate, 2 inner } in., narrowly ovate, corolla 
tube ovoid, horny, one-lipped, the lower broad, 3-lobed, 
stamens 4, in unequal pairs, thick, rigid, anterior pair have 
a process above the anthers, anthers densely bearded, 
style linear, very shortly 2-fid ; capsule 3 in. oblong with 
rounded ends, flattened, shining brown, seeds 2, ¢ in, 
prickly. 
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