3. Geniosporum.] 106. LABIATJil. 



floAvers in dense spikes 2-i" long, often svipported by a pair of white 

 leaves, and the bracts white or greenish- Avhite. Fruiting calyx erect, 

 tubular, •12" long, pubescent Avith 2 black glands on the upper lip 

 {F.B.I, says loicer). 



Northern Champaran, in the Ramnagar Hills ! Perhaps also in Purneah. (I have 

 collected it in the adjacent Sikkim Tarai.) Fl. Aug.-Oct. Fr. Nov. 



L. with short scattered hairs, shortly acuminate, base acute or rounded and 

 cuneate on the petiole which is "2,o-'7b" long, sec. n. 8-10 distinct. Bracts broadly 

 rhomboid ovate. Pedicels very short. Calyx pubescent, throat glabrous. Corolla 

 hairy with purple veins. Nutlets ellipsoid black, hispid towards the top 

 (J.B.H.). 



2. G. elongatum, Benth. 



A herb 20-30" high with 4-angular somewhat hispidly retrorsely 

 hairy strict stems, distant pairs of linear or linear-lanceolate pubes- 

 cent leaves 1-2" long and terminal dense spikes "75-2" long of small 

 pale-purple and white flowers. Bracts orbicular-obovate decussate, 

 often white or pale, •25--3" long, S" broad, villous beneath. Fruiting- 

 calyx closely ribbed, sometimes pitted from the raised close transverse 

 nerves. 



Palamau, Pendra Valley, 2000 ft. ! Fl., Fr. Sept.-Nov. 



L. tapering to the sul)sessile base, serrate, thinly strigose above, gland dotted 

 between the nerves beneath, sec. n. about 6 prominent and hairy beneath, 

 tlepressed above. Fls. many, shortly pedicelled, reaching to the margins of the 

 bracts. Calyx '12" naked within with villose or woolly tube shorter than the upper 

 lip, very unequally toothed, upper lobe oblong, lateral teeth lanceolate, lower 

 minute. Corolla -lo'-'J,", hairy, 2 central lobes of upper lip purple, 2 side-lobes 

 purple-veined, lower li]) white, not longer than u))per, hat, oblong, acute. Fruiting 

 calyx tubular '2" long, suberect and teeth erect enlarged hi.spid, 10-nerved. not 

 pitted (pitted in Circars specimen, J.D.H.), Nutlets ellipsoid-oblong white smooth. 



3. G. prostratum, Benth. 



A diffuse or prostrate herb with slender stems 4-15" long from a 

 somewhat woody rootstock and rhomboid or elliptic sharply distantly 

 serrate leaves •3-5" long narrowed into the petiole, or (var. gracilis) 

 narrow linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate leaves •S-l'S" long. 

 Flowers very small, somewhat like those of wild Thyme, on slender 

 pedicels in cymose whorls racemed at the ends of the branches ; 

 racemes 2-6" long with ovate or narrow-ovate acute reflexed bi*acts. 

 Fruiting calyx '1", tube ribbed, about as long as the teeth, glandular 

 and thinly hairy outside, throat closed with hairs, 2 anterior teeth 

 narrower and sharper than the others. 



This is recorded from Orissa in Bengal Plants and it possibly does extend as far 

 as the Puri coast but the specimens are not from Bengal Orissa but from Ganjani 

 in Madras, i. e. Orissa in the older and wider sense. It is a common sea-side plant 

 in Ceylon. Fl. June-Sept. 



4. ACROCEPHALUS, Benth. 



Annual herbs Avith Avhorls of small HoAvers in dense heads with 

 imbricating bracts. Calyx ovoid in flower, tvibular in fruit Avith 

 gibbous base, upper lip flat, entire, loAver entire, 4-fid or 4-toothed, 

 throat naked. Corolla-tube very short, subequally 4-lobed. Stamens 

 4 with the anthers scarcely exserted, filaments free. Disc small 

 .gibbous. Style 2-fid. Nutlets smooth. 



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