Stachys. — Lamium. — Ballote. 831 
Whorls 2-flowered, rather near, racemed; calyx 8 mm long, short- 
pedicelled, tubular-campanulate, teeth triangular, acute, muticous, 
one third as long as the tube; corolla pubescent, flesh-coloured, with 
included tube. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. Common in the Wadies on calcarious ground, Often 
a foddefor donkeys. 
Local name: roghat (Forsk.); roghl (Wilkinson); qartan (Schwein- 
furth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
476. (13.) Lamium Linn. 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-toothed, with equal or oblique 
mouth. Corolla-tube usually exserted, naked or hairy within, limb 
bilabiate, the upper lip arched or helmet-shaped, entire, retuse, or 
bifid; the throat dilated; the lateral lobes of the lower lip truncate or 
angled, sometimes appendaged, the median one somewhat stipitate, 
notched or bilobed or entire. Stamens 4, parallel under the upper 
lip, anthers diverging. Style equally bifid. Nutlets acutely trique- 
trous, truncate at tip. — Annual or perennial herbs. 
A genus of several species, chiefly south European or central Asiatic, 
generally distinguished either by the long, arched upper lip, or by the 
smallness of the lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla. 
1166. Lamium anplexicaule L. Spec. Plant. I (1753). p. 809. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 760. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 3 fig. HW. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 122 no. 829. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 267. — Ascherson-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p.622 no. 247. — A low, decumbent, much branched 
annual, a few em, or, when very luxuriant, near 35 cm long. 
Lower leaves small, orbicular. on long stalks; the floral one closely 
sessile, broadly orbicular, and deeply crenate or cut. The flowers 
form 1, 2, or 3 compact whorls. Calyx softly hairy, with short 
teeth. Corolla about 1—1,5 cm long, of a purplish red, with a 
slender tube; the lateral teeth of the lower lip scarcely perceptible. — 
Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica; Matruga; Dakalla; Ras-el-Kenais; Mariut; 
Alexandria-West and -East; Mandara. — N. d. N. v. Common in 
gardens, cultivated and naturalized. — O. Dakhel. 
Everywhere in the Mediterranean region and Europe. 
477, (14.) Ballote Tourn. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 10-ribbed; limb usually with 5—10 
teeth rarely more, or entire. Corolla-tube with a ring of hairs inside; 
