500 CI I. labiate: (bakee). [Benschia, 



41. EENSCHIA, Vatke in Linnaea, xliii. 94. 



Calyx campfinulate, with two entire orbicular lips, small in the 

 flowering stage, in fruit much enlarged, finally splitting down to the 

 base into two entire lobes. Corolla-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, three 

 times the length of the calyx ; limb bilabiate ; upper lip orbicular ; 

 lower lip longer, deflexed, 8-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, arcuate ; 

 lower pair the longest; anther-cells short, divaricate. Disk equal. 

 Nucules 4, clavate, triquetrous on the inner face, basally attached to a 

 small aureole. Style bifid, the upper fork very short. Fruit unknown. 



Endemic and inonotypic. 



1 . B . heterotypica, Vatke in Linnoia, xliii. 94. A much-branched 

 undershrub, lJ-2 ft. high, with pale slender woody branchlets, finely 

 pubescent upwar4s. Leaves ovate, obtuse, irregularly^ crenate, glabrous, 

 the lower 1-1 J in. long and broad, truncate at the base ; petiole nearly 

 as long as the blade. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme ; pedicels 

 short ; bracts linear, as long as the pedicels. Flower-calyx ^-\ in. long, 

 pubescent. Corolla purple ; tube J in. long ; lower lip yV in. long. 

 Stamens all four slightly protruded beyond the upper lip of the corolla. 

 — Tinneaheterotypica, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1877, 69, t. 185, fig. 8. 



Iflle £and. British Souialiland : Ahl MountainF, near Maid, 4500 ft., Hilde- 

 brandt, 1429! 



42. TEUCRIUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, ii. 1221. 



Calyx- tul,^e funnel-shaped or campanulate, rarely inflated ; teeth 5, 

 subequal or the uppeimost largest. Corolla-tube usually not longer 

 than the calyx; limb bilabiate; upper lip very short; lower longer, 

 deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; lower pair longest ; anther- 

 cells divaricate, confluent. Disk equal. Style subequally forked at the 

 tip. Nucules obovoid, rugose. — Herbs or undershrubs of very various 

 habit. Leaves entire or crenate, those that subtend the flowers either 

 large and foliaceous, or reduced to small <bi-acts. Whorls usually 

 2-flowered, axillaiy or forming terminal racemes or heads. 



Species about 100. Cosmopolitan ; concentrated in the Mediterranean region. 



Flowers in axillary whorls all down the stem . \. T, Scordium. 



Flower<« condensed into globose terminal heads . . 2. T. Polium. 



1. T. Scordium, Linn,; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 586. A 

 perennial herb, with simple or branched hairy ascending or spreading 

 stems. Ijeaves in many pairs, sessile, oblong, obtuse, crenate, J-1 J in- 

 long, hairy or nearly glabrous. Flowers in pairs from the axils of 

 large leaves all the way down the stem ; pedicels as long as the calyx. 

 Calyx ^ in. long ; teeth ovate, equal, as long as the campanulate tube. 

 Corolla red, ^ in. ong — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 202; Engl. Hoch- 



