106. LABIAT^E. [3. Geniosporum. 



Calcutta Herbarium. The flowers are *6' long and leaves shortly petioled, but it is, 

 I think, 0. rubicund us. 



4. 0. glabratus, Benth. Syn. O. tomentosus, Benth. Var. g-labrata, 



F.B.I. 

 Slender, 2-3 ft. high, scarcely Avoody below, much branched, branches 

 4-angled, g-rooved and striate, nearly glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 crenate or dentate-serrate, 2-3" and nearly as broad, puberulous along 

 the nerves beneath, otherwise glabrous, base nearly straight or very 

 slightly cuneate on petiole, which is 1-1 7" long and slender. FloAvers 

 •3-"4* long about 6 in a whorl in slender racemes 3-7" long with small 

 ovate cuspidate reflexed bracts OS-'OT". Fruiting calyx deflexed 

 •3' to end of awns of lower lip (which project beyond upper), thinly 

 pubescent, upper lobe •14' broad in fruit, somewhat coloured. Nutlets 

 broadly-ellipsoid brown, smooth (not quite ripe). 



Mais of Pari ! FL, Fr. Nov.-Jan. 



L. very acute, pale beneath, sec. n. 4-6, of which one from base, fine but clear. 

 Racemes with pubescent rhachis. Pedicels "l" suberect. Calyx with the nerves 

 between the thi-ee main ones of uj^per lip not as clear as in most Orthosipkon, upper 

 lobe somewhat apiculate, decurrent at sides, lateral scarcely aristate. Corolla-tube 

 '•2-"25," puberulous. Stamens shorter than lower lip, upper pair sub-included. 

 Stig-ma minutely 2-lobed. 



5. 0. grandiflorus, nov. comh. Syn. Ocinium grandiflorum, Blume 



(1825) ; Orthosiphon stamineus, Benth. (1830). 

 A very pretty species 1-2 ft. high with 4-angled nearly glabrous 

 stems, petioled ovate acuminate coarsely obtusely seri'ate leaves 

 2-3'o" long and pubescent purple flowers Avith corollas "S-'To" long, 

 and declinate stamens exserted to 1" beyond the corolla. Seeds (not 

 seen by me) broadly oblong compressed, rvigulose (J.D.H.). 



Shady places, Latua Forest, Singbhum ! Fl. Aug.-Sept, 



Herbaceous. L. cuneate at the base, puberulous on the 4-5 sec. n. beneath, not 

 very clearly punctulate. Petiole -5-1". Pedicels about "15", longer or shorter than 

 the ■13-'2'' long tubular calyx, of which the lower teeth are subulate, but not awned 

 and upper lobe not as bruad as in other species. 



3. GENIOSPORUM, Wall. 

 Herbs with small or minute flowers in many-fld. whorls in dense or 

 lax spikes or racemes with the bracts often Avhite or coloured. Calyx 

 ovoid in flower, tubular and strongly transversely ribbed or pitted in 

 fruit, suberect or declinate, 5-toothed^ ixpper tooth broadest but not 

 decurrent. Corolla 2-lipped, tube short, upper lip 4-fid, lower 

 declinate entire. Filaments free, exserted. Disc tumid, gibbous. 

 Style arms short flattened. Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth or 

 sometimes punctulate. 



Erect, l-3ft. high: — 

 Leaves 2-4", ovate or lanceolate, petioled I. »frobiliferum. 



Leaves linear or narrow-lanceolate, 1-2", subsessile. Fruiting- 



calyx "2" 2. elongatum. 



Prostrate, with leaves narrow, sessile, very unequal. Fruiting- 



calyx "l" ............ 3. prostratum. 



1. G. strobiliferum, Wall: 



An erect, little-branched herb 2-3 ft. high with puberulous stems 

 and ovate or lanceolate serrate leaves 2-4" long and small white 



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