PlscteaSTHUs.] LABIATJB. 239 



Fruiting oalyx deonrved, OOTOlla bine . . . L P. Coetsa. 

 Fruiting calyx erect ; corolla white spotted with 



pink . . . . . . . . . 2. P. ternifolius. 



1. P. Coetsa, lhich.-Ham. ex D. Don Prol. 117 ; F. li. I. iv, 619; Collett 

 FL Siml. 8S6 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 0,447. 



A tall oroct much-branched strong-smelling perennial herb, 3-6 ft. high. 

 -.-• stout, l-angled, pubescent, often tinge! with red. Leaves l£-4 in. 

 long, ovate or ovatn-lunccolate. acute, crcnate or i serrate, softly pube- 

 nt above, white-tomentose beneath, base taporing into the more or 

 less winged petiole, nerves and .veins prominent beneath; petioles ',-.'. 

 in. long, stout, woolly. Flotoeri in many short cymes which are arzangec! 

 in long axillary and terminal pubescent pamoled racemes ; pedioela 

 slender, deflexed, hairy. Calym clothed with stiff grey hairs, in flower 

 tVto i n< l° n a an d oampannlate, decurved in fruit and tubular; tube 

 curved, 10-ribbed ; teeth Bubeqnal, acute. Corolla A-J in. long, lavender- 

 blue, hairy outside, tube abruptly decurved ; upper lip obscurely lobed ; 

 lower longer, boat-shaped. Xuileis broadly ellipsoid or suborbicular 

 smooth, yellow. 



Dehra Dun, in the Nakiaun la swamp (Kanjilal). Distrtb. Sub-trop. 

 and Temp. Himalaya from the Punjab to Mishmi, up to 8,000 ft. ; also 

 on the Khasia Hills and in Burma, extending to Afghanistan, the 

 Konkan, Deccan, S India and Ceylon. 



2. P. ternifolius, D. Don Prod, 117 ; F. B. I. iv, 621 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 

 272 ; Colldt Fl. Siml. 3S6 ; Prain Beng. PL 846 ; Brandis bid. Trees 516. 

 Elsholtzia Thompsoni, Hook.), in F. li. I. iv, 643. 



A bush-like herb, 3-6 ft. high ; branches erect, densely white-tomentose 

 Leaves opposite and ternately whorled, sessile or nearly so, thick 

 rugose, --H in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, i^ase acute ; upper 

 surface hairy, lower white-tomentose. Cymes shortly stalked, crowded 

 in erect cylin Iric villous racemes forming terminal panicles, lower 

 bracts leaf-like. Calyx tomentose ; tube campanulate when in flower 

 elorgate tubular and erect in fruit ; teeth subequal, acute. Corolla 

 white with pink spots at the base of the upper lip ; tube inflated, longer 

 than the calyx, limb very short. Xutlets trigonous, acuminate. 



Dehra Dun, at Karwapani (Kanjilal); N. Oudh, at Gadughat (R. 

 Thompson), Kheri forests iHearle). Distrib. Outer Himalayan 

 ranges from Kashmir eastwards, up to 5,(00 ft.; also in Bengal, "the 

 Khasia Hills, JManipur, Upper Burma and Tonkin. 



6. ANISOCHILUS, Wall, j Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 627. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in dense oblong 4-angled or 

 cylindric spikes, bracts caducous. Calyx subcrect, inflated below the 

 middle, 2-Upped or 6-tootbed, rarely 1-lipped ; upper lip entire and 

 deflexed, or short and minutely 3-lobeff; lower lip short, truncate 

 obscurely toothed or none. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube selnder, decurved, 



