LAIJIAT.^. (MINT FAMILY.) 613^ 



21. WiEDE.MANNIA. Calyx with a l-toothed upper and 4-tootlied lower hp. Nutlets 



acutely triqiietroHs, truncate. 



22. LAMIUM. 2L Calyx with equal or oblique, 5-toothed mouth. Kutlets acutely tri-. 



quetrousj truncate. (Fig. 276, a and i»). 



23. MOLUCELLA. Calyx reticulate, oblique or 2-lipped, growing much in fruit. 



24. BALLOTA. 2f 5 C^alyx-fube 10-nerved ; mouth straight j teeth 5-19. 



25. OTOSTEGIA. ^ Calyx-tube lO-nerved, limb membranous, dilated, upper lip smalt. 



26. LEUCAS. ^ Calyx-tube striate, mouth straight, teeth 10 ; upper lobe of style short. 



27. PHLOMIS. 2f 5 C'alyx-tube striate, mouth !-traight ; teeth 5. Leaves undivided, 



' never round, generally pannous. 



28. EREMOSTACHYS. 2i Calyx-tube fleecy or cottony, teeth 5, spiny. Leaves round or 



ovate, undivided, or bipinnatisect, not pannous. 

 Tribe V. PRASIE^, As in last tribe, but the nutlets fleshy. 



29. PEASIUM. ^ 'C;ilyx campanulate, 10-nerved, irregularly 2-Iipped. 



Tribe VI. A JUGOIDEJE. Perfect stamens 4, ascending, with divaricate anther- 

 cells. Corolla nearly ]-lipped, by obsolescence of the upper lip. T^utlets dry, pitted, or reticulate, 

 in Ajuga Poslii fleshy. 



30. TEUCPvIUM. 2|; 5 Corolla deciduous, lower lip 5-lobed. (Fig. 276, t and j). 



31. AJUGA. If ^ Corolla marcescent, lower lip 3-fid, middle lobe often bifid. 



1. I^AVAiVDUI..A, ToiTRNEFORT. Lavender. Laioanda. 

 Calyx ovate-tubular, 13-lo-nerved, teeth 5, short, the uppermost 

 often with a dilated appendage, all connivent iu fruit. Upper lip of 

 corolla rather large, 2-lobed, the lower o-lobed. Stamens included, 

 declined ; anthers ovate-renif orm, with confluent cells, dehiscent by a 

 common, semicircular slit. Style bilamellate. Disk with 4, fleshy, 

 scales in front of the nutlets -— Perennial herbs or shrubs. 



* Leaves unclhidecl. U'ppej' calyx-tooth appendaged. 



1, L<, Stcechas, L. Sha'mneh. ,21 .3 to .5, woolly-caucsceni, 

 with numerous, erect branches. Leaves linear-oblong, the longer .02 

 long, opposite, the shorter .01 long, clustered in the axils of the long- 

 er, all obtuse, revolute-margined. Spikes oblong, dense, .02 to .03 

 long, .01 broad; bracts purple, veined, densely imbricated, obtriangu- 

 lar with rounded angles and a short point. Fro. 277. 



the upper much larger, oboYate-sj)athulate, 

 sterile, deep violet,, forming a showy tuft at 

 tip of spike; corolla deep violet — March 

 to October — Rocks, especially sandstone; 

 common to 1200 m. 



* * Leaves l-'H-jylnnatisect. Upper calyx- 

 tootli not appendaged. 



2. L. pubcseciis, Dec. 71 .4 to .6 or 

 more, pubescent, viscidulous; stems erect, 

 opposite-branched. Leaves Mpimiatisect into 

 shoi't, oblong-linear, acute lolmles. Si:)ikes sol- 

 itary or i^anicled, linear, deme.^ .02 to .05 

 long; bracts puberulent, oblong, acuminate, 



a little shorter than calyx; corolla-tube twice i;pike of Lavandula 



as long as calyx — Spring — Around south pnbescens. 



end of Dead Sea, and southward to Sinai and Egyjit. 



