240 LABIATE. [ Anisochilus. 



throat inflated ; upper lip short, entire or 3-4-fid. ; lower elongate, 

 concave. Stamens didynamous, decimate, filaments free. Disk 

 lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style 2-fid. at the apex. Nutlets dry, ovoid, 

 smooth, basal scar small —Species a^out 15, all confined to India 

 except one in Trop. Africa. 



A. carnosus, Wall. Bl. As. Bar. ii, 18 ; Boyle III. 301 ; F. B. I. iv, 



627 ; Watt E. D.; Brain Beng. Bl. 847 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 450. A 

 eriocephalus, Benth. ; F. B. I. I.e. Plectranthus strobiliferus, Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Hi, 23. Vern. Banjiri. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stem stout, bluntly 4-angled, glabrous or 

 sparsely pubescent, often tinged with red. Leaves rather fleshy, 1-2^ 

 in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, crenate, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, usually hairy beneath, petioles §-l§ in. long. Spikes |-1§ in. long, 

 4-gonous in flower and becoming cylindrical in fruit, peduncles slender ; 

 bracts ^ in. long, ovate, acuminate, ciliate, glandular. Calyx pubes- 

 cent, 5 in. long, enlarging in fruit ; upper lip ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliolate, bending over the lower lip and closing the mouth of the calyx 

 when in fruit ; lower lip truncate, its membranous ciliate tip reflexed 

 and appressed against the tube. Corolla pale-purple, f in long, hairy 

 outside ; upper lip short, erect, with shallow lobes. Nutlets suborbi- 

 cular, compressed, polished and brown when ripe. 



Upper Gangetic Plain (YVallich), Banks of Jumna from Delhi to Allahabad 

 (Boyle), Bnndelkhand (Edgeworth). Flowers Sep. and Oct. Disteib. 

 W. Himalaya, up to 8.0* ft. in Garhwal and Kumaon, and southwards 

 through C. and S. India to Ceylon, extending to Ava. 



7. LAVANDULA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 630. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves incised or entire. Flowers in 2-10- 

 floweied whorls forming simple or branched spikes, bracts persistent. 

 Calyx erect, ovoid, tubular, shortly and equally 5-toothed, 13-15- 

 nerved. Corolla blue or purple, rarely white, oblique, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip 2-fid., lower 3-partite, the lobes all spreading. Stamens 

 didynamous, decimate, included, filaments free, anther-cells con- 

 fluent. Disk equally 4-lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style shortly 2-fid., 

 the lobes flattened. Fruit of 4 dry smooth nutlets, basal scar some- 

 what oblique. — Species 30, chiefly Mediterranean. 



L. Burmanni, Benth, Lab. Gen. $ 8p. 151 ; Boyle III. 300 ; F. B. I. 

 iv, 631 ; Brain Beng. Bl. 848 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 452, 



A slender erect herb. Stems 2-3 ft. high, simple or branched, 4-angled, 

 pubescent. Leaves sessile or nearly so, 2-4 in. long and as broad as 

 long, pinnatipartite or deeply pinnatisect ; lobes linear, entire or cut or 

 toothed, obtuse or subacutef glabrous or pubescent above, pale and 



