Otostegia. — Eremostachys. 835 
3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate; lower pair the longest; 
anther-cells divaricate. Disk equal. Style bifid at the apex; nucules 
ovoid, obtuse. — Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves sessile or petioled, 
entire or crenate. Flowers few or many in laxly disposed leafy 
whorls, bracts herbaceous or spinous. 
Species about 10, the others inhabiting Arabia, North India and the 
Orient. 
1172. Otostegia microphylla (Desr.) Aschers. and Schweinf. 
in Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), p. 122 no. 831. — 
Otostegia Schimpori Boiss. Flor. Or. IV. p. 776. — Molucella micro- 
phylle Delila Fragm., p. 10 fig.2. — Ballote microphylla Benth. 
Labiat., p. 596. — Marrubium microphyllum Desr. in Lam. Dict. XII, 
p. 720. — A shrubby plant, 30—50 cm high, or sometimes some- 
what now; branches elongated, stiff, minutely velvety. Leaves densely 
woolly, short-petioled, ovate, 1 cm long, crenate, wrinkled at under 
surface, the floral shorter than the whorls. Whorls 2—4-flowered; 
bracts few, subulate, short; calyx tomentellous, limb oblique, reticu- 
lated, obsoletely 10-crenulate, the lower limb. 7 mm long, twice as 
long as the upper one, nearly as long as the tube. — Flow. March. 
D. a. sept. Gebel Umm Khasheyba. 
Local name: ghassa (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
482. (19.) Eremostachys. 
Calyx tubular-campanulate or funnel-shaped, the limb some- 
times expanded, membranous, teeth 5, broad, spiny. Corolla-tube 
included, hood flattened, lower lip trifid. Stamens ascending under 
the hood, the upper filaments appendaged at base; anthers in pairs, 
with divergent, confluent cells. Nutlets hairy at apex. — Perennial 
herbs, differing from Phlomis by aspect rather than botanical 
characters. 
A small genus of only a few species in the Mediterranean region and Asia. 
1173. Eremostachys laciniata (L.) Bunge in Ledeb. Flor. 
Altaic. Il, p. 416. — Ic. Bos. Reg., tab. 52. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, 
p. 793. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p.770 no. 1308. 
— Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 267. — Aschers. Flor. Rhinocol., 
p. 802 no. 202. — Eremostachys macrocheila Jaub. and Spach Ilustr. 
Plant. Or. V, tab.513. — A perennial herb, 30 cm to 1m high, 
or more, stem thick, ending in a dense, fleecy spike, 30 cm or 
more long, 6—8 cm broad, interrupted at the base. Leaves green, 
hairy or somewhat fleecy, the radical ovate 60—40 cm long, 15 to 
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