254 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



The first of these, which is said to be called thick-leaved lavender, 

 I have not seen. D. and G. have it, but without habitat. H. has it 

 " throughout Central and Southern India," and makes it a very 

 variable plant. The second I had at Lena, and D., who attributes 

 it to the highest Ghauts opposite Bombay, describes the dark red 

 spike and " the leaves sprinkled on both sides with ruby-coloured 

 glands." This would certainly be a considerable exaggeration if 

 applied to my plant ; but H. thinks this is perhaps only a state of A. 

 carnosus. 



Two species, which are not in D., are given by H. on the authority 

 of Dakell, Law, &c. * A. plantagineus, dwarf and shrubby, leaves 

 sessile, oblong obovate entire, spikes solitary long, on very stout 

 peduncles, calyx woolly, bracts 3-lobed. Bababudin Hills. * A. verti- 

 cillatus, softly hairy, stem stout, leaves mostly whorled, sessile, 

 narrow lanceolate, flowers very pale blue in a large terminal spike, 

 calyx lips truncate, bracts large lanceolate. Konkan and S. Ghauts. 

 D. has A. adenanthus, near Dharwar and Bababudin Hills, but the 

 description is very imperfect, and H. could not identify it. 



6. LAVANDULA. 



1. L. Gilsoni (L. Perottettii, D.). A tall plant, all softly 

 hairy, leaves pinnatifid, segments oblong or linear, flowers pale 

 lilac in dense spikes, calyx long, segments lanceolate. 



2. L. Burmanni. Less leafy and hairy than the last, 

 leaves bipinnatifid, segments linear, spikes dense, flowers dark 

 blue 'or white, bracts subulate with a broad base. Gorea 

 asmdni. 



Both these species (which are the only ones in India) are suffi- 

 ciently like the favourite garden lavender of England (L. vera) to be 

 at once recognized, and they have almost the same lovely smell. 



" Crowned lilies, standing near 

 Purple spiked lavender." Tennyson. 



The first seems to be rare. D. has only hills at Sattara, where I 

 also found it. H. adds to this "the Konkan." &. has Fort of 

 Pandugarh j Mr. Birdwood, the Ghauts : on the Mahableshwar road. 

 The second is tolerably common in the Deccan. Other species are 

 found in gardens. 



7. POGOSTEMOK 



Note. This genns and the two following approximate to 

 the mints. 



1. P. purpurascens. Herbaceous erect, much-branched, softly 

 hairy all over, stem furrowed, leaves ovate petioled, doubly 

 serrated, flowers in crowded clusters on large stout spikes, pink 

 or white, calyx teeth short triangular, bracts longer ovate, 

 glandular, stamens long, lilac. 



