LAMIACEJE, OR LABIATE. 



MARRUBIUM. 



Calyx tubular, 5-1 0-nerved, equal; with 5-10 acute spiny teeth. 

 Corolla with the upper lip erect, the lower spreading and trifid, 

 with the middle lobe broader and generally emarginate. Sta- 

 mens didynamous, enclosed ; anthers with divaricating, some- 

 what confluent lobes, all nearly of the same form. Style with 

 short obtuse lobes. 



1027. M. vulgare Linn, sp.pl. 816. Eng. Bot. t. 410. Woodv. 

 t. 97. Smith Eng. Ft. iii. 103. Bentham lab. 591. M. ha- 

 matum HBK. n. g. et sp. ii. 310. M. apulum Tenoreji. nep. 

 t. 154. Waste ground all over Europe and the middle of Asia ; 

 also various parts of both North and South America. (Hore- 

 hound.) 



Stem bushy, branching from the bottom, bluntly quadrangular, leafy, 

 clothed with fine woolly pubescence. Leaves on longish stalks, except 

 the upper ones, which are nearly sessile ; their shape and size, as well 

 as the degree of their woolliness, various ; their surfaces wrinkled and 

 veiny. Flowers white, in dense convex whorls. Calyx-teeth rigid, 

 recurved at the point, all spreading ; the 5 alternate ones smallest ; 

 orifice of the tube hairy. The whole herb has a white or hoary aspect, 

 and a very bitter, not unpleasantly aromatic, flavour. Its extract is a 

 popular remedy for coughs and asthmatic complaints. Smith. It has 

 been recommended in chlorosis and hysteria as stimulating and tonic ; 

 and also in the treatment of intermittents. An infusion of the leaves 

 has been found serviceable in chronic catarrh and humoral asthma. 

 Made into syrup or confection and candied with sugar they form a 

 popular remedy for slight coughs ; the plant although not much used 

 professionally, appears to deserve more attention than it now receives. 

 Burnett. 



1028. Teucrium Marum Linn, seems to be a genuine feline 

 aphrodisiac ; its active properties deserve investigation 



ANISOMELES. 



Calyx ovate-tubular, equal, 5-toothed. Corolla with a hairy 

 ring inside ; the upper lip oblong, erect, entire, the lower larger, 

 spreading, with the lateral lobes ovate, obtuse, the middle one 

 emarginate and somewhat bifid. Stamens didynamous, the 2 

 lowest the largest ; the anthers approximated in pairs ; those of 

 the longer stamens halved, of the shorter 2-celled, with parallel 

 transverse cells. Style equally bifid. 



1029. A. malabarica RBr. in Bot. mag. t. 2071. Hooker 

 Journ. Bot. i. 225. t. 127. Benth. lab. 704. Nepeta malabarica 

 Linn. mant. 566. Ajuga fruticosa Roxb. fl. ind. iii. 1. East 

 Indies and Isle of France. 



Stem erect, 2-5 feet high, 4-sided, with obtuse angles. Branches 

 numerous, axillary, ascending. Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, crenate, except at the base which is entire, strongly reticulated 



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