Plants of the Punjab. 203 
Heras, Erect, with Opposite ExsTIpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Neypeta eriostachya. 
LABIATA. 
BB. Kaw. 657: 
Himalaya, 11,500 ft. 
Kashmir (Clarke). 
Nepeta nervosa, 
LABIATAE. 
F. B.I. iv. 658. 
Kashmir, 
6-10,000 ft. 
(Falconer). 
Nepeta campestris, 
LABIATS. 
F. B. I. iv. 658. 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Nepeta elliptica, 
LABIATR. 
F. B. I. iv. 658. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Lear Marains ‘lootHEen. 
PETALS UNITED. 
CoROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
INNER PAIR OF STAMENS LONGEST. 
small, sparsely hairy ; leaves }-% in., ovate or ovate: 
heart-shaped, blunt, round-toothed, sessile, velvety be- 
neath ; flowers $ in., bright blue in unbranched terminal 
cylindric-oblong, densely-flowered hairy spikes, 1-3 in. long, 
calyx + in., sessile, 5-toothed, teeth slender, feathery, 
tubular, corolla tube slender near the base, dilated 
towards the mouth, twice the length of the calyx, 
2-lipped, upper lip erect, straight, concave, notched, lower 
spreading, 3-lobed, lateral lobes small, turned back, mid- 
lobe much larger, narrow at the base, concave, stamens 4, 
in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper lip, enclosed 
in the corolla, the upper, inner and posterior pair longer 
than the lower, outer and anterior pair, style with 2 
awl-shaped lobes ; nutlets smooth. 
medium size, smooth, rootstock long, woody, leaves 
2-4 by 4-# in., linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, sharply 
toothed, bracts ovate with an abrupt point; otherwise 
like the last species. 
very like the last species, but the spikes are much 
longer and more slender, calyx teeth less hairy and more 
divergent, corolla more slender. 
very like Nepeta nervosa, but the leaves 4-1 in., felted 
and stem woolly. The seeds are used in dysentery. 
