Plants of the Punjab. 217 
Heres, Erect, with Opposite Exstipunate SimpLe LEAVES. 
Phlomis bracteosa, 
LABIATA. 
He Bak. am 698: 
Himalaya, 
5-11,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Ajuga bracteosa, 
Kauri butt, karku, 
khurbanri. 
LABIATA. 
BBP. iv. 702: 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Abbottabad, 
Rawalpindi, Kahuta 
(Douie). 
Ajuga parviflora, 
LABIATS. 
Fy. B. Lav. 708: 
Himalaya, 
2-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree (Douie). 
Lear Maretins Toornep. 
PETAL UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
OUTER PAIR OF STAMENS LONGEST. 
large, stout, velvety with white hairs, stem and 
branches 4-angled, hairs on the stem, when present, sharp- 
ly turned down, leaves 2-4 in. (in Kashmir 6-8 in. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed), ovate, blunt-pointed, 
round-toothed, base broadly heart-shaped, stalked, flowers 
1 in., dull blue-purple, in many dense-flowered axillary 
circular clusters, {-1 in. diam., bracts erect equalling the 
calyx, outer thin, lanceolate or linear, tip not spinous, 
inner narrower, calyx 4-} in., tubular, hairy or smooth, 
5-toothed, teeth slender with scattered hairs, corolla upper 
lip fringed with white hairs, nutlets 4-1 in., ovoid with ~ 
_the tip broad and rounded; otherwise like the last spe- 
cles. 
small, stems and branches from the rootstock many, 
velvety or smooth ; leaves 1-4 in., lanceolate with a broad 
tip or spoon-shaped, blunt-pointed, toothed more or less, 
lower stalked, upper sessile ; flowers 4 in., pale blue or 
lilac, crowded in axillary circular clusters at short intervals 
forming leafy spikes, much shorter than the ovate leafy 
bracts, calyx ¢ in., 5-toothed, softly hairy, teeth half the 
length of the tube, ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed, corolla 
tube straight, nearly twice the calyx, 2-lipped, upper 
hip very short, erect, deeply notched, lower spreading, 
mid-lobe dilated, side-lobes cblong, stamens 4, in unequal 
pairs, protruding, style 2-lobed; nutlets 5 in., oblong 
with rounded ends, deeply wrinkled, pitted. This plant is 
used as a stimulant, diuretic, and aperient. 
like the last species, but corolla is small, the base 
is not inflated, stamens included, flower clusters on 
kracteate spikes, not axillary. 
