452 CI I. LABiATiE (baker). [Mentha. 



2. M. Pulegium, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 175. A peren- 

 nial, with slender prostrate much-branched pubescent or nearly glabrous 

 steins. Leaves small, petioled, ovate, crenate. Flowers in distant 

 globose axillary whorls. Calyx y^^ in. long ; upper teeth deltoid, lower 

 lanceolate. Corolla-tube shortly exserted ; lobes small, oblong. — A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 187 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 364. 



wile Iiand. Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 141 ! Mai-SauiiH, near 

 Adowa, Rohlfs Sf Stecker. Sliire, Quart in- Dillon Sf Petit, 13 ! Addi-Shoa, 3500 ft., 

 Schimper, 754 ; Ataba, Steudner, 1406 ! 



Also in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. 



24. MICROMERIA, Benth. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, ii. 1188. 



Calyx-tube cylindric, 13-15-nerved ; teeth acute, nearly equal. 

 Corolla-tube straight ; limb short, bilabiate ; upper lip erect, nearly 

 flat ; lower patent, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending ; 

 anthers 2-celled. Disk equal or reduced to an anticous gland. Style 

 bifid at the apex. Nucules small, ovoid or oblong. — Herbs or under 

 shrubs. Leaves entire or crenate. Whorls axillary or crowded into a 

 terminal spicate panicle. Flowers small. 



Species 60, spread widely in both hemispheres. 



Leaves rigid, entire. 



Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate . . . . 1. M. hifiora. 

 Leaves lanceolate 2. M. longijlora. 



Leaves membranous, crenate . . . . . Z. M. ahyssinica. 



1. M. biflora, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 220. A much-branched 

 perennial herb, with slender pubescent stems J-1 ft. long. Leaves 

 obscurely petioled, rigid, entire, finely pubescent, ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, \-\ in. long. Cymes 2-6 -flowered, sessile or shortly 

 peduncled in the axils of many produced leaves. Calyx \-\ in. long ; 

 tube cylindric, pubescent, strongly ribbed ; teeth small, lanceolate- 

 deltoid. Corolla-tube shortly exserted, dilated at the throat. — Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 650 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 365. M. punc- 

 tata, Benth. 1. c. ; Britten in Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 396. M. ovata, 

 Benth. 1. c. 219. M. Schimperi, Vatke in Linnjea, xxxvii. 326. M. 

 Purtschelleri, Giirke in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 365. Satureia 

 ovata and S. punctata, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons-. Cameroon Mountain, 7000-10,000 ft., Mann, 

 1292 ! 1981 ! Johnston, 39 ! on open dry plains, Kalbreyer, 115 ! 



Wile Iiand. Nubia: Coast-land, Bent! Erkowit Mountain, near Suakin, 

 Schweinfurth, 225 ! Eritrea : Mount Bizen, 6500 ft., Schtoeinfurth Sf Riva, 1863 ! 

 Keren, Steudner, 1429 ! Abyssinia : Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 12 ! 45 ! 

 1859 ! Quartin-Dillon ; Province of Wojerat, Quartin-DiUon ! Samen ; Dugua, 

 Steudner, 1435 ; Debra Eski, Schimper, 156 ; Ghaba, Steudner, 1430 ; Jaja,6000 ft., 

 Schimper, 314; Amba Sea, 7400 ft., Schimper, 381 ; Godofelassi, Rohlfs Sf Stecker ; 

 Sassidolosatsclia, i2oAZ/5 4* Stecker; near Janausa, 8400-9400 ft., Schimper; near 

 Memsah, Quartin-Dillon ; Begemeder ; near Anadehr, 7800 ft., Schimper, 576 ! 

 Guna Mountain, Steudner, 1433, Urahut district, 9700-10,400 ft., Schimper, 591 ! 



