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Very common on the Ghauts and Konkan hills. The spikes are 

 suggestive of (Indian) sqnirrels' tails. 



10. MlGROMERIA. 



M. capitellata (M. Malcolmiana, D.). A slender erect hairy 

 plant, leaves small ovate obtuse, crenated, reddish, flowers 

 small violet in twin stalked spikes, upper lip of corolla paler. 



Streams at Mahableshwar. W. Ghauts (H.) It has both the 

 smell and appearance of a mint. 



11. SALVIA. Sage. 



8. plebeia. A stout branched hairy plant, leaves oblong or 

 ovate wrinkled, blunt, stalked, floral leaves very small ovate, 

 flowers very small violet in verticils of about 6, upper lip of 

 calyx entire, lower 2-lobed, almost closing after flowering. 

 Kamarkas- 



Sattara and Dhanu. Khandalla and Caranjah (ZX). Throughout 

 India 



This has a strong mint-like smell and the general appearance of 

 an Ocimum. I noted it as sticky, which is a common, if not a 

 general, characteristic of the Salvias. Also that the calyx eventually 

 almost shuts up like that of a Scutellaria. 



8. officinali?, sage, Salbia, Sefakas, is cultivated as a kitchen herb. 

 S. Indica, Seoti, also said to be cultivated ; but is not a native of 

 India (-ST.). Several species are also cultivated as garden flowers. 



12. SCUTELLARIA. Skull-cap. 



* S. discolor. Stem ascending from a creeping root-stalk 

 often naked above, leaves ovate obtuse or roundish cordate, 

 strongly nerved and purple below, flowers white in long 

 slender racemes. 



Matheran and Mahableshwar (Birdwood). Ghauts, Konkan and 

 Canara (D. and H.). Two species are tolerably common in England. 



13. AUISOMELES. 



1. A. Heyneana. A tall untidy straggling plant, more or 

 less hairy all over, stems, branches and peduncles acutely 4- 

 angled, leaves ovate crenate, narrow at the base, upper 

 lanceolate with a hairy stipulary ring, cymes long-stalked, few- 

 flowered, one-sided, flowers white or greenish, lower lip tinged 

 pink, calyx dark- coloured. Chandhdra. 



The Konkan : very common in Salsatte. H. has Western Ghauts, 

 and suggests, " Perhaps only a variety of the next : " but the plants 

 when living appear very different. 



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