3. Plbcteanthfs.] 83. LABIATM [6. Anisomelis. 



a strong smell, and terminal racemose panicles of small pale 

 lilac lipped flowers y" long, arranged mostly in opposite 

 pairs in the axil of a small foliaceous bract. 



Waste ground near villages in Singbhum. Common near Muh.ru> 

 Eanchi. Sirguja, among dry rocks, Wood. Fls. 8ept.-0ct. 



Whole plant softly shortly pubescent. L. 2" by If" to 4* by 4" acute 

 glandular punctate beneath, petioles up to 3-4". Calyx |" enlarged in 

 fruit with an upper broad ovate lobe, and lower 4-subulate-toothed lip. 

 Corolla-tube slightly exsert. Pedicels \-\". 



Anisoehilus carnosus, Wall. Gitil ran, flf., is a herb 1-3 ft. high 

 with very stout stems belo-*. Branches 4-an?led villous. Lower leaves 

 4^* by3i'', long petioled ovate creuate rather fleshy. Spikes l-\\ " 4- 

 gonous in bud from the 4-rauked deciduous bracts, inflorescence with 

 red glands. Corolla purple. Common on rooks Singbhom, Palamau, 

 especially on limestone, 



5. HyptiS, Jacq. 



1. S. SUaveolens, Poit. Gangatulsi/S. 



A tall coarse strong-smelling herb 4-5 ft. with patently 

 hairy obtusely 4-angled stems often |" diam., large ovate 

 sinuate and ©renate-denticulate leaves and small blue-lipped 

 flowers in axillary stalked cymes running out into terminal 

 panicles. 



Waste ground. A native of America but quite naturalized and 

 frequent throughout Chota Nagpur and the Santal Parganahs. Fls. Oct.- 

 Nov. Fr. Dec.-Jany. 



Glandular. Lower leaves 4$" by 3$" slightly cordate» Calyx-tube i* 

 in fruit, 10-nerved with 5 sub-equal sub-spinose teeth, tube with a 

 hirsute margin inflezed in fruit, hairy and very glandular outside. 

 Corolla nearly {'', upper lip shortly 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, mid- 

 lobe folded at base and saccate at apex. Nutlets compressed oblong- 

 eraarginate ribbed, pointed below %'' long. 



The plant, pounded, is applied in parasitical cutaneous diseases, 

 Campbell, 



6. Anisomeles, R.Br. 



1. A- ovata, B.Br. 



A coarse strong-smelling softly pubescent herb 3-6 ft. 

 high with ovate coarsely crenate acuminate leaves and 



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