Wallichiane. N. O. Labiate. 
TAB. CDLXIV. 
PLECTRANTHUS SCROPHULARIOIDES. 
Caule herbaceo erecto ramoso subglabro, foliis longe petiolatis 
lato-ovatis crenatis basi rotundatis ineequaliter cordatis v. 
subcuneatis, floralibus bracteisque minutis, paniculis laxis, 
calycibus fructiferis declinatis profunde bilabiatis inflatis, labio 
superiore adscendente tridentato inferiore concavo porrecto 
breviter bidentato, dentibus omnibus obtusis, corollis inflatis 
supra gibbis calyce subtriplo longioribus, staminibus exsertis. 
Plectranthus scrophularioides. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 2. p. 16. 
Benth. Lab. p. 40. 
Han. North India, along torrents in Nepal and Kamaon. 
Wallich. 
The section of Plectranthus, to which this plant belongs, was 
established by Schrader as a genus, under the name of Jsodon; 
the teeth of the calyx, in the species which he described, being 
nearly equal and scarcely bilabiate, even at maturity. The name, 
having been thus applied, was adopted for the section, although 
not so suitable to the majority of its species, in which the 
calyx is more or less decidedly bilabiate. In the P. scrophu- 
larioides it is deeply so. The true character of the section con- 
sists in the lateral teeth of the calyx being more or less con- 
nected with the upper one, not with the lower ones as in 
Coleoides, in the want of that spur to the corolla which distin- 
guishes Germanea and Melissoides, and the ripe calyx being de- 
clinate, not erect as in Pyramidium and Amethystoides, Bentham. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Corolla cut open. =f, 3. Mature calyx. 
Jus. Anther. J. 5. Upper portion of the style. /f. 6. Fruit. 
Ff. 7. Single carpel :—all magnified. 
