2U LABIATE. [ Micbomebia. 



short ; the lower recurved, flattened. Sutlets 4, dry, ovoid or oblong, 

 basal scar small. — Species about 60, found in nearly all parts of the 

 world, but not in Australia. 



1. M. capitellata, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 218; F. B. I. iv, 649; 

 Watt E. D. i I'rainBeng. Fl 852; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 459. 



A slender herb, 1-2 ft. high, very aromatic, roots took woody. Stems 

 erect, 4-angled, pubescent, often tinged with purple. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, |-1 in. long, ovate or oblong, subobtuse, hairy and gland-dotted 

 on both surfaces ; margins crenate or entire, ciliate, petioles \-\ in. 

 long. Flowers in distant subglobose whorls ; cymes of lower whorls 

 peduncled, the upper sessile, the whole forming a long slender spike- 

 like raceme ; floral leave* smaller upwards ; bracts small, linear-lanceo- 

 late, hairy. Calyx ^ in. long (in flower), hairy and glandular, divided 

 £ of the way down into erect lanceolate ciliate teeth. Corolla % in. long, 

 hairy outside ; upper lip pale-violet, oblong and slightly emarginate ; 

 lower twice the length of the upper, dark-violet. Nutlets ellipsoid, 

 smootb, brown when ripe. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie). Distrib. Chota Nagpur, Deccan and on the 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



12. CALAMINTHA, Moench. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 650. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers small, 

 whorls dense and axillary or loose and panicled or in spikes. Calyx 

 13-nerved, 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2-fid. and with 

 narrower teeth, throat naked or villous. Corolla 2-lipped, tube 

 straight, throat villous; upper lip erect, flatfish; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens didynamous ( the upper pair rarely imperfect ) ; 

 lower pair longer, ascending under the upper lip ; anther-cells dis- 

 tinct, parallel or diverging. Ovary 4-lobed ; style 2-fid., the lobes 

 equal, or the lower larger. Nutlets 4, minute, subglobose, dry, 

 smooth. — Species 40, chiefly in temperate regions of the N. 

 Hemisphere. 



C. umforosa, Fisch. and Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. vi, 6 ; F. B.I. 

 iv, 650; Collett Fl. iSiml. 393; Prain Beng. PL 853. Clinopodium 

 repens, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, IS. 



A small slender procumbent or decumbent laxly hairy herb. Leaves f-lj 

 in. long, ovate, serrate. Flowers in small globose lax or densely 

 flowered whorls ; bracts small, not forming an involucre. Calyx \ in. long ; 

 teeth of upper lip triangular, those of the lower longer and subulate. 

 Corolla purple, hairy. Nutlets very small. 



Dehra Dun, rather common Distrib. Temperate Himalaya from Kash- 

 mir to Bhutan, up to 12,000 ft., Khasia JVlts. up to 4,000, and in the hJly 



