Hyptis.) XCIII. LABIATÆ. 81 
 l-eelled by the confluence of the cells. Nuts dry, smooth or minutely 
granular. 
7. DYSOPHYLLA, Blume. 
Pre equally 5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube; the limb of 4 
equal or nearly equal lobes. Stamens 
lament Due anthers small, p nearly globular, 1-celled. 
prises several peti me send including among Mem the only 
desta one. The commonest and est ead of them 
Blume, has however, not yet ey deserted! in petis Haak has pioioi the 
Mo the genus with Pogostemon, of which it Mes at any rate form a very mar 
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verticillata, Benth.; DC. Prod. xii. 157. A glabrous or 
ascending to 1 ft. or more. Leaves in whorls of 4 to 6 or rarely more, 
sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire, with apne margins, 1 to 2 
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whorls crowded in dense cylindrical spikes of 1 to 2 in., the ‘tips of the 
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than the calyx, the lobes as long as the tube. Stamens shortly ex- 
hai ane. the corolla-lobes, the filaments batrdol with reddish purple 
Mitea Stralia. Boggy situations, S. Goulburn island, A. Cunningham; Lagoons, 
itle s river, Gulf of Carpentaria, Leichhardt, in both cases the common form with 
rous stems and foliage 
dges ‘of waterholes, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy, a pubescent 
inim also found i in India, but not so common as the glabrous one. 
widely spread over East India and the Archipelago. Thwaites is pro- 
by right m in suing with it as varieties D. crassicaulis, Benth., and D. tetraphylla, 
8. MENTHA, Linn. 
Calyx r regular or slightly 2-lipped, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube not at 
allor scarcely exceeding Sd Penis limb 4- lote the ice all one acy 
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ike es, with the fl gy rapt bracts. Bracts within the 
se-wh orls s minute, or rarely subulate 2 as long as the calyx. 
e genus is chiefl dant i » Europe and dapi Asia, 
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