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LABIATE, (mint FAMILY.) 



€d, ovate to obloug-ovate, .015 to .04 long, somewhat creuate, round- 

 ed at base. Whorls sessile, dense, half -globular, remote, the terminal 

 forming globular to oblong heads, .Qlo to .03 long, .015 to .03 broad; 

 in^-ficts jjlumose, especially numerous at base of wliorl ; calyx-teeth bristle- 

 like, plumose ; corolla purple, twice to thrice as long as calyx — May to 

 August — Shady and dry places, especially in mountains. 



Fig. 293. Fia. 294. 



Head of Calamintha Clinopodium. 



Whorl of Calamintha 

 origanifolia. 



"* * Whorls forming compound cymes. Corolla-tube with a ring of hairs 



within. 



7, C. origanifoSIa, Lab. 2^ .3 to .4, glabrous or appressed-vel- 

 vety, or scurfy, greyish; rootstock and trunk woody; branches slen- 

 der, flexuous, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves nearly sessile, or- 

 hiculai'-ovate to ovate, .006 to .01 long, remote, entire. Whorls 3-4, re- 

 mote, many-flowered, short-peduncled; bracts oblong-spathulate to lin- 

 ear-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as calyx; upper calyx-teeth triangu- 

 lar-acuminate, lower lanceolate-subulate; corolla-tube scarcely exsert- 

 fid — July to October — Alpine summits of Lebanon. 



"^ * * Whorls comjjosed of stiff , unbranched pedicels. Cm'olla-tube not 



ringed. 



». €. graveoleiis, M. B, © .1 to .2, villous-cauescent, branch- 

 ing from base and above; branches ascending. Leaves .005 to .008 

 long, with curved, prominent nerves, obovate, ovate, or ovate-orbicu- 

 lar, acute, tcqyering into ap)etiole longer than the blade, the floral longer 

 than the flowers. Whorls 4-6-flowered, remote or crowded; calyx near- 

 ly sessile, somewhat gibbous at base, incurved, with awl-shaped teeth half 

 as long as tube ; corolla-tube included, limb minute — April to June 

 ■ - 8ubalpine and alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon ; Hauran. 



10. MEI.I§SA, L. Balm. 



Calyx campanulate, lo-ribbed, bilabiate, with the tube flattened 

 behind, the upper lip flattish, 3-toothed, and the low^er bipartite. Co- 

 rolla-tube exserted, ascending-recurved, naked within, the upper lip e- 

 rect, retuse, the lower spreading, trifid. Stamens 4, ascending, conni- 

 vent under upper lip, the anther-cells divaricating — Perennial herbs, 

 with white flowers. 



Ifl. ofncinalig, L. 2f .6 to 1, more or less villous or, hirsute, 

 -vanching. Leaves petioled, ovate, often cordate, .02 to ,06 long, 

 more or less crenate to serrate-dentate. Cymes axillary, nearly sessile, 

 3-o-flowored, forming a one-sided, interrupted, leafy spike; pedicel at 



