106. LABIATE. * [13. Elsholtzia. 



1. C. oppositifolia, Sm. Bhainsa, S. 



A large spreading softly woolly shrub 5-10 ft. high with stout 

 Avhitish hranchlets, large white-tomentose crenate or crenulate 

 leaves and very small white flowers in panicled spikes 2-4" long. 

 Calyx in fruit villous, deeply furrowed with plumose teeth -12" 

 long. 



Purneah ! Vallej^s or rockj' ravines in the hills in Chota Nagpur. Singbhum ! 

 Ranchi ! Palamau ! Hazaribagh (on Parasnath and valleys in Koderma forest) ! 

 Santal Par. ! Fl. Dec.-Feb. Fr. Feb.-March. 



L. sometimes 3-nate, 4-8", elliptic or ell. -oblong acuminate with about 12 rather 

 strong oblique sec. n. Petiole ■5-l"25". 



A preparation of the root is given in epilepsy, Camp. 



13. ELSHOLTZIA, Willd. 



Herbs or undershrubs, often beautifully scented. Flowers minute 

 in whorls aggregated into simple or panicled, sometimes secund, 

 spikes. Calyx 5-toothed, erect and often enlarged in fruit. Corolla 

 Avith straight or incurved tube and oblique or sub-2-lipped limb, 

 upper lobe or lip notched erect, lower spreading. Stamens 4 diver- 

 gent or distant, sometimes unequal, filaments naked, anther-cells 

 divaricate or finally confluent. Disc produced behind the ovary. 

 Style subequally 2-fid, lobes subulate. Nutlets smooth or tubercled. 



1. E. incisa, Benth. 



An aromatic annual herb 8' -3 ft. high with square stems puberu- 

 lous Avith adpressed hairs and deltoidly or rhomboidly ovate, very 

 coarsely serrate leaves l-2'o" long. Flowers very small white, lipped, 

 in dense terminal slender terete spikes l"5-3o" long, or shorter on 

 the lateral branches. Bracts subulate acuminate. Fruiting calyx 

 tubular-urceolate, "11" long, 10-nerved, pubescent, with 5 subequal 

 subulate teeth. Nutlets oblong-ellipsoid, brown, shining, attached 

 by a very minute base. 



Sunny slopes, pats of Chota Nagpur. Neterhat, 3500 ft. ! Fl. Oct. Fr. Nov.- 

 Dec. 



Smell of Thyme. Stem angles rounded. L. with very conspicuous glands 

 beneath, acute' or acuminate, decurrent on the slender •4-2"-long petiole, pube- 

 rulous above and on nerves beneath, sec. n. 4-5, strong oblique and curved, 

 tertiaries prominent. Spikes pubescent with decussate subulate bracts, •l-'2" long, 

 slightly exceeding the flowers. Cymes 4-7-fld., sessile, fls. minutely pedicelled. 

 Calyx 'OS-'O?", campanulate, hairy and gland-dotted, upper tooth slightly longer. 

 Corolla '1", densely pubescent, tube funnel-shaped, slightly curved, upper lip very 

 short sub-truncate emarginate, lateral very short, anterior rather longer, half- 

 orbicular. St. erect, 2 upper 2-celled, scarcely exserted, lower sometimes imperfect, 

 sometimes one larger than all the rest. 



Distrib. : Temperate and sub-tropical Himalaya and Chittagong. 



Species of the genus Mentha, L. (Mint), are found in most Indian 

 kitchen-gardens, and are well known iinder the vernacular name of 

 pudina. The flowers in Mentha are often polygamo-dicecious and many 

 hybrids occur. I do not remember having seen any Mint in floAver in our 

 area, and the plants are propagated by division of the roots or under- 

 ground stolons. The one commonly used in flavouring is usually 

 referred to as M. viridis, L., but the leaves are not lanceolate as in 

 that species but orbiculai'-ovate or orbicular. It is more probably a 



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