Salvia.] ZABIATM 257 



More 8 cab riil and rillous than the type. Leaves very rigid and rugose. 

 (\W</.r longer, villous with long hairs. — In tho drior western portions of 

 the area from Delhi to Bundalkhand and Morwara. Flowers Nov. -Jan. 

 DI8TBIB. Punjab plain and Salt range np to 2,500 ft., Sind, Gujarat and 

 Doccan ; also in Afghanistan and Baluchistan. 



& coccinca. Jon. A slender herb up to 3 ft. high with handsome scarlet 

 flowers. It is often grown in the gardens of N. India, ind is a native 

 of C. and S. America. 



8. ofncin<ili.* : Linn. (Common Sage) is a native of S. Europe. It is some- 

 times cultivated in gardens within the area. 



22. MOSLA, Buch -Ham. ; Fl., Brit. Ind. iv, 646. 



Annual fragrant herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers very minute ; 

 whorls 2-llowered, arranged in terminal and axillary secund racemes ; 

 bracts very small, or the lower leaf -like. Calyx campanulate, 5- 

 toothed, enlarged in fruit, subequal or 2-lipped, base gibbous ; upper 

 lip truncate or 3-toothed, lower of 2 longer teeth, throat closed with 

 hairs. Corolla-tube naked or with a ring of hairs ; lips short upper 

 notched, lower 3-fid. Stamens 2, posticous, short, erect, distant ; 

 anther-cells 2, divaricate, staniinodes 2. Disk a large posticous 

 gland. Nutlets globose, smooth or reticulate. — Species 7 or 8, in 

 India, Burma and. China. 



M, ocymoides, Buch. -Ham, ex. Benth. in Wall. Tl. As. Rar. i, 66. 

 M. dianthera, Maxim. ; F. B. I. iv, 647. Hedooma nopalensis, Benth.; 

 Decne. in Jacquem. Voy Bot. 133, t. 13S. Lycopus dianthera, Buch.- 

 Ham.; Roxb. FL- Ind. i, 144. 



A slender erect sparsely pubescent herb, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves stalked, 

 1-1^ in. long, ovate, acute, serrate, petioles J-i in. long. Racemes termin- 

 ating the branches, slender, lax-flower ed. Calyx (in fruit) £ in. long, 

 hemispherical. Corolla white or purplish, £ in. long, tube short. 

 Nutlets reticulate. 



Dehra Dun, on the Nagsidh Hill at about 2,000 ft. (Gamble) Distrib. 

 Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to G,000 ft., and on tho Khasia 

 Mts., extending to Burma and China. 



23. TEUCRIUM, Linn.; PL Brit. Ind. iv, 700. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire serrate or lobed, floral leaves often 

 bract-like. WhorU 2-6-llowered, arranged in axillary or terminal 

 spikes racemes or hcids. Calyx 10-nervel; teeth 5, equal or the 

 uppermost larger. Corolli apparently 1 -lipped, tube not annulate 

 within, limb slit behind, the 2 upper and the lateral lobes cuneate 



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