106. LABIATM. [20. Scutellaria. 



lower subulate teeth rather smaller and narrower than the three 

 upper. Nutlets oblong, light brown with white dots, and small basal 

 attachment areole. 



In damp places ! Darbhanga, Cal. Herb. ! Patna, Madden ! Behar, Kurz ! 

 Palamau, Gamble I Sant. Par., Wall ! Ramgarh Ghats (Hazaribagh), Prain ! 



My description is taken from specimens collected on the Vindhyan Plateaux lands 

 west of our area where it is frequent, and it will therefore be almost certainly found 

 on the Chota Nagpur pats. Fl., Pr. March- June. 



Leaves on small plants sometimes only "o" long, on large ones 1-2", usually hoary- 

 pubescent, usually very obtuse, base sometimes cordate, both sides hairy. Bracts 

 setaceous. Flowers hairy pedicelled. Corolla lower lip "2" with a large shovel- 

 shaped emarginate and slightly obtusely crenate midlobe and narrow paler-coloured 

 2-fid side lobes, throat purple spotted. Longer stamens with very divergent anther- 

 cells slightly exceeding the flat pale-coloured 2-fid oblong hairy upper lip. 



19. ANISOMELES, Br. 



Erect branching coarse herbs. Flowers purplish in axillary whorls 

 or lax flowered branched panicled cymes. Calyx ovoid or tubular, 

 straight, equally 5-toothed. Corolla with short tube annulate with a 

 ring of reflexed hairs within, upper lip erect entire, lower broad, 

 spreading, midlobe notched. Stamens exsei'ted, anthers conniving, 

 of the longer pair 1 -celled, of the shorter 2-celled, cells transverse 

 parallel. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets smooth. 

 1. A. indica, 0. Ktze. Syn. A. ovata, R. Br. 



A strong smelling softly pubescent herb 3-6 ft. high with ovate 

 coarsely crenate acuminate leaves l-S" long and purplish flowers in 

 axillary dense-flowered whorls and terminal spikes, or whorls laxly 

 cymose elongate. 



Champaran to Purneah, common ! Santal Par., common ! Chota Nagpur, fre- 

 quent ! Angul, Chattarjee ! Probably in all districts. Fl., Sept.-Nov. Fr. Dec- 

 Jan. 



Leaves from sparsely pubescent to woollj- beneath. Calyx '3" hirsute within and 

 without, teeth acuminate. Corolla \^'ith pale or greenish nearly flat entire upper 

 lip and lower purple spreading 3-lobed lower lip with the midlobe laterally com- 

 pressed and notched. Filaments purple-bearded or only slightly hairj'. Nutlets 

 •05-*16" black, polished. 



20. SCUTELLARIA, L. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers in axillary whorls, or whorls 

 spiked or racemed, sometimes only 1-2-fld. Calyx 2-lipped closed in 

 fruit, upper lip with a broad peltate or concave scale on the back and 

 finally deciduous when the nutlets are ripe. Corolla with a long 

 tube, usually sharply recurved from the base and erect, not annulate 

 within, upper lip entire or notched, lower broad 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 anthers conniving, ciliate, lower 1-, upper 2-celled. Disc elongate. 

 Ovary oblique ; upper style-lobe short. Nutlets very minute, smooth 

 granulate or hispidulous. 



1. S. discolor, Colebr. 



Leaves chiefly radical or subradical, petioled, rosulate orbicular or 

 oblong, crenate, rounded at apex, cordate at base, larger 3" by 2-5*, 

 pubescent on the strong nerves beneath and often purple. Stem 

 with raceme 6-15' with few distant pairs of sessile orbicular cordate 

 or elliptic leaves '5' long, sometimes with an axillary branch or 

 raceme. Flowers violet-blue with lighter coloured lip, ascending, 



745 



