Plants of the Punjab. 2165 
Heres, Erect, witH Opposite EixstrpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
. 
Leucas Cephalotes, 
Dhurpi sag, phuman, 
guldoda, chatra. 
LABIATA, 
BEB. Txive 689) 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Leucas aspera, 
Leonotis nepetzefolia, 
LABIATA. 
BY Be lstv.'691. 
The Plains. 
Berara, Ambala 
District. 
Lear Mareins ToorHEpD. 
PETALS UNITED. 
CoROLLA fWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
OUTER PAIR OF STAMENS LONGEST. 
large, annual, aromatic, stout, hairy, hairs spreading, 
leaves 2-4 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed, 
shortly stalked, round- and sharp-toothed, flowers in very 
large terminal round clusters, 1-2 in. diam., surrounded by 
membranous overlapping linear lanceolate bracts, bristle- 
pointed, unlike those of any other species, calyx 2? in., 
tubular, slightly curved, velvety, teeth short, awl-shaped, 
not longer than the hairs of the mouth ; otherwise like 
the last species. ‘This plant is used locally as a stimulant 
and diaphoretic, milk ig stirred up with it to improve the 
flavour, the fowers are sacred to Siva. 
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see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, ~ 
Entire. 
large, annual, stem 1 in. diam., 4-angled, groov- 
ed, minutely velvety ; leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in., ovate, round- 
toothed, thin, stalk 1-3 in., winged above, slender, floral 
leaves lanceolate, sharply bent down ; flowers 1 in. long, 
orange, in densely many-flowered globular clusters 2-3 in. 
diam. round the stem, like the head of a drum stick, at 
some distance apart, prickly from the spinescent bracts, 
bracteoles many, slender, calyx ? in. long, ribbed, netted, 
velvety or woolly, tubular, turned in, mouth oblique, 
teeth 8-10, spines, upper } in. long, lower with 3 recurved 
spinescent teeth, corolla tube slender, projecting beyond 
the calyx, 2-lipped, upper lip long, concave, crown woolly, 
lower minute, spreading, concave, mid-lobe largest, sta- 
mens 4, in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper lip, 
style awl-shaped, 2-lobed, upper lobe very short; nut- 
lets 4, sharply 8-angled, linear-oblong, widening upwards, 
cut off short. 
