256 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



1. D. myosuroides. A pretty erect plant, like a small mint, 

 all silky, branched, leaves oblong or lanceolate, not whorled, 

 flowers minute reddish, calyx teeth short and straight. 

 Shewal. 



Common in the beds of watercourses at Mahableshwar. This and 

 the Bababudan hills seem to be the only places recorded for it in W. 

 India. 



2. D. stellata. Erect or slightly creeping, slightly hairy, 

 leaves linear, 5 to 7 in a whorl, quite entire, smooth, flowers 

 red or purple in short spikes, floral leaves larger than the 

 calyx, rather thick, calyx segments rather acute. Marvd. 



3. D. tomentosa. Softly hairy with erect branches from 

 prostrate stems, leaves lanceolate or linear, 6 to 9 in a whorl, 

 bracts similar, flowers purple in close spikes, calyx segments 

 obtuse. 



These two are very mnch alike, and are both fonnd in rice-fields in 

 the cold weather. They differ chiefly in hairiness and in the calyx 

 segments, and H. considers the second to be the larger species. It 

 is abundant about Malwan, and H. has no other habitat. The first 

 is a Southern species : from Belgaum southwards (H.). Also in S. 

 Konkan and at Matheran. 



Another species, * D. gracilis, which grows in patches at 

 Mahableshwar, and flowers in October (Mr. JSirdwood) is probably 

 only a tall form of D. stellata (H.), and * D. erecta, hardly 

 distinguishable leaves up to twelve in a whorl, near Malwan (D.). 

 * D. salicifolia, stem one or two feet high, hairy or silky, leaves 

 linear lanceolate, not whorled, otherwise like! No. 1. Not in D. 

 Mahableshwar, Konkan, &c. (#.). * D. quadrifolia (D. rupestris, D.), 

 a stout nndershrub, 2 to 4 feet high, hairy and silky, leaves 4 in a 

 whorl, linear lanceolate, spikes long of innumerable small rose- 

 coloured flowers. Near Vingorla (-D.). Many other parts of India 

 (If.). * Z>. Stodcsii, very stout, erect, nearly smooth, leaves narrow, 

 linear obtuse, spikes slender, the mouth of the calyx closed by the 

 minute teeth. Not in D. Konkan, Stocks (H.). 



Perilla belongs to the sub-tribe Menthoideae (Mints). Calyx much 

 enlarged in fruit, 2-lipped, upper broad 3-toothed, corolla bell- 

 shaped, disk a large gland. * P. ocimoides, coarse, strong-smelling, 

 2 or 3 feet high, leaves ovate or rounded, serrate or crenate, flowers 

 small, white or blue in racemes. Not in D. Ghauts and Mahablesh- 

 war (Gf.). Pdngli. 



9. COLEBROOKIA. 



C. oppositifolia (C. tenuifolia, D.). A small shrub, all soft 

 and hairy, leaves verticilled in threes, elliptic, narrow at both 

 ends, serrulate, flowers minute, dirty white, in very small lax 

 spikes. Bdhmani, dasai, dasari kdj Mr. 



