16. Calamintha.] 106. LABIATE. 



superficially more like Calamintha nmhrom than the first, this is also probably 

 Micromeria capitellafa. 



17. SALVIA, iinn. 

 Herbs or shrubs. Flowers often large, red, blue or yellow, rarely- 

 white, in usually interruptedly racemed or spicate whorls. Calyx 

 tubular or campanulate, with entire or 2-toothed upper, and 2-fid 

 lower lip ; throat naked. Corolla-tube naked or with a ring of hairs 

 inside ; upper lip erect, lower 3-lobed, lateral lobes spreading. 

 Stamens 2 perfect, filaments short, jointed on a slender connective 

 which bears 1 or 2 perfect cells. Disc tumid behind. Style ascending 

 2-fid. Nutlets 3-quetroiis, smooth. 



1. S. plebeja, Br. 



An erect copiously regularly branched herb with square stems 1-2" 

 ft. high, wrinkled sage-like ovate, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate crenate 

 leaves 1-3" long and terminal often panicled racemes of small or 

 minute white-lipped flowers in 6-fld. whorls. Upper calyx-lobe 

 decurrent on the tube as in Ocimum bvit elliptic, lower 2 teeth 

 longer acute, others obsolete. Stamens ascending under the upper 

 lip, cells Avidely separated by the lever like connective, one imperfect. 



Usually in gravel near streams. Champaran ! Purneah, Cal. Herb, ! Singbhum t 

 Manbhum, Cal. Herb. ! Fl. Feb.-March. 



Stems grooved on the sides, pubescent with short reflexed hairs. L. narrowed 

 into the rather long petiole, lower usually obtuse, upper more acute. Racemes. 

 2-4", glandular. Bracts oblong or lanceolate and smaller ones under the lateral 

 flowers. Corolla •12-*17" only, upper lip concave 2-toothed, lower spreading 

 3-toothed with the central much larger, white with few brown dots, all teeth 

 rounded, throat with a small ring of hairs within. 



Several beautiful species are in cultivation but most of them only 

 thrive in the hills. S. coccinea L., is commonly grown in gardens in 

 the plains. It has long lax erect spikes of scarlet flowers about V 

 long and will often seed itself. 



18. NEPETA, L. 



Herbs. Flowers often small, blue, white or yellow in axillary and 

 terminal sometimes spicate or racemed whorls. Calyx tubular, 15- 

 ribbed, regular, equally 5-toothed or 2 lower teeth narrower. Corolla- 

 tube not annulate within, throat inflated, upper lip straight, notched 

 or 2-fld, lower 3-fid, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending under the 

 upper lip or exserted, upper pair longer ; anther-cells diverging. 

 Style -lobes subulate. Nutlets smooth. 



1. N. hindostana, comh. nov. Syn. Glechoma hindostana. Roth. (1821) ; 

 N. ruderalis. Ham. 

 An aromatic herb with one or many stems 6-18" high from the 

 root, obtusely 4-cornered and pubescent. Leaves somewhat nettle- 

 like but small, lower about 1*25 by 1" ovate or broadly ovate, coarsely 

 crenate-serrate with petiole 5-75". Flowers blue-purple "25", in 

 stalked axillary dense cymes aggregated at the top of the stem into 

 dense spiciform thyrses '8" diam., peduncles of lower cymes often "3". 

 Fruiting calyx '25" ribbed, slightly curved, with oblique mouth, 2 



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