260 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



should be very handsome the flowers of the one, * L. leonurus, large 

 scarlet, of the other, * L. tartarica, rich pink, variegated with white. 



Nepeta, catmint, calyx 15-ribbed, 5-toothed, corolla throat inflated, 

 upper lip straight, lower 3-lobed. N. bombaiensis, small, erect, hairy, 

 leaves ovate, obtuse, crenated, flowers small, pale, 5 or more to a 

 peduncle, corolla scarcely larger than calyx. Old rocks and walls, 

 at Shivner Fort (D.). I had this, as I believed, at Champanir. H. 

 has no other hab. than D.'s, but mentions a plant sent by Mr. 

 Woodrow from Poona, apparently coming between this and a much 

 commoner species, N. ruderalis. N. cataria is a well-known English 

 plant. 



The following are cultivated : 



Mentha viridis, and M. arvensis, mint, padina, watalao. N. pipirita, 

 peppermint. Meriandra Bengalensis, Indian, sage, shevti. 



Rosmarinus officinalis, rosemary : a very common shrub in the S. of 

 Europe. 



" There's rosemary: that's for remembrance." Hamlet. 

 And with the same idea, perhaps, it is associated with death 

 " All must be left when death appears, 

 In spite of wishes, groans and tears, 

 Nor one of all thy plants that grow, 

 But Rosemary will with thee go." 



Q. Sewell (17th century). 



Origanum vulgare marjoram, Mdrva, Hdrda Jcush. 



Thymus vulyaris, common thyme : (not the wild thyme of poets) : 

 ipdn, hdsha,. 



Note. In Sir J. Lubbock's " Beauties of Nature," and " Flowers 

 and Insects," will be found a very interesting account of the use of 

 each part of various labiate flowers, with reference to their fertiliza- 

 tion by insects. 



ORDEB 92. PLANTAGINE^. 



Herbs, with radical strongly-nerved leaves and inconspicuous 

 flowers in a scape ; sepals 4 persistent, corolla hypogynous, 

 chaffy, 4-lobed ; stamens 4, long and weak on the corolla, 

 anthers very large, slightly attached, ovary free, capsule mem- 

 branous. 



A very small but well-marked order, not at all resembling any that 

 have gone before. The long weak stamens and disproportionately 

 large anthers are the most conspicuous part of the flowers. 



PLANTAQO. Characters of the order. 



This, the only genus found in India (and there are only two others 

 in the order), is in England called plantain, a name which, to avoid 

 confusion, it is better to drop in the tropics. 



