Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite ExstipunaAtE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
906 
Nepeta ruderalis, _ 
Billi lotan, badranj, 
boyd. 
LABIATH. 
F. B. I. iv. 661. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Douie). 
Nepeta Cataria, 
Catmint, 
LABIATE. 
F. B. I. iv. 662. 
Kashmir, 
1-5,000 ft. 
(Falconer). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Nepeta leucophylla, 
LABIATH. 
F. B. I. iv. 662. 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Nepeta graciliflora, 
LABIATA. 
I’. B. I. iv. 6638. 
‘The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Luar Mareins ToorHeD, 
Gages UNITED, 
CoROLLA TWO-LIPPED, 
STAMENS FOUR. 
INNER PAIR OF STAMENS LONGEST. 
medium size, annual, velvety, stout or slender, 
slightly 4-angled, common on roadsides, leaves $-23 in., 
green or grey, broadly ovate or circular heart-shaped, 
shortly stalked, blunt, round-toothed, flowers 4 in., blue 
or purple, minutely dotted, stalked in very densely-flowered 
circular one-sided stalked and branched clusters at in- 
tervals along softly hairy spikes, calyx ¢ in., softly hairy, 
mouth of calyx tube nearly equal, 38 upper teeth triangu- 
lar, bristle-tipped, 2 lower thread-like, corolla very small, 
tube shortly projecting beyond the calyx, nutlets broad, 
cranulate ; other characters like those of other species of 
Nepeta. This plant is used as a cardiac tonic, a febrifuge 
and a gargle. 
medium size, perennial, stem acutely 4-angled, 
branched, grey velvety, leaves 1-3 in., ovate or ovate- 
heart-shaped, short-pointed, coarsely round or sharp- 
toothed, flowers }in., dotted with purple in circular clusters 
on long narrow terminal shortly-stalked densely-flowered 
spikes 4-10 in. long, bracts awl-shaped equalling or not 
the calyx, lower bracts leafy, calyx } in., curved, velvety, 
mouth oblique, teeth nearly equal, awl-shaped, shorter 
than the calyx tube, nutlets broadly oblong, smooth 
other characters like those of the other species of Nepeta. 
medium size, slender, branched, grey-felted, stem 
slightly angled, leafy, leaves 1-1} in., ovate-heart-shaped, 
blunt or short-pointed, round-toothed, wrinkled above, 
shortly stalked ; otherwise like the last species. 
very like Nepeta ruderalis, but more slender with thin 
coarsely round-toothed leaves, longer leaf stalks, flowers 
pale pink and nutlets more granulate, 
