2'ei(crmm.] cii. lauiat.*: (baker). .OOl 



gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 371 ; T. abyssiuicain, Hochst. ex Bentli. in DC. 

 Prod. xii. 58(1. 



IVile Z>and. Abyssinia : Province of Uraliut, in chiiup meadows, Schimper, 

 1766 ! and witiiout precise locality, Quart in- Dillon Sf relit, l^^ter ! 



Also in Europe and Western Asia to the Himalaya. 



2. T. Polium, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. ')\)\. A perennial 

 herb, densely branched from the crown of the root, with wiry stems 

 densely clothed with white tomentum. Leaves crowded, sessile, small, 

 oblong, with crispate-crenate revolute edges. Flowers aggregated in 

 dense globose terminal heads ; bracts small. Calyx densely villous, 

 ;J in. long ; teeth small, ovate. Corolla Lwice as long as the calyx. — 

 Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. S)0. 



Nile Iiand. Somaliland ; Serrut Mountains, near Maid, 5800 ft., Hildehrandf, 

 1-150 ! Adda (lalla, James Sf Thrupp ! 



Also in South Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. 



4:5. AJUGA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, ii. li>22. 



Calyx-tube campanulate, 10-ribbed ; teeth .'), equal. Corolla-tube 

 included or exserted ; limb bilabiate; upper lip very short; lower 

 longer, 3-lobed, defiexed. Stamens -i, didynamous, arcuate, usually 

 protruding beyond the upper lip of the corolla; lower pair longest; 

 anther-cells divergent, finally confluent. Disk equal or obli(pie. Ovary 

 shortly 4-lobed ; style subequally forked at the tip. Nucules obovoid, 

 reticulated, obliquely attached. — Annual or perennial herbs, often 

 .stoloniferous. Leaves usually crenate. Whorls '1- or many-flowered, 

 axillary or forming terminal racemes bracteate by much reduced 

 leaves. 



Species about 30, concesitrated in the extra-tropic.il regions of the Old World. 



1. A. bracteosa, Wall. Cat. Xo. 2082. A perennial herb, not 

 stoloniferous, much branched at the base, with ascending hairy stems, 

 8-12 in. long. Leaves usually in many pairs, the upper obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, sessile, entire or crenate, slightly hairy, the lower oblong, with 

 £i cuneate base and obscure petiole. Whorls many-Howered, produced 

 from the axils of the leaves all the way down the stem ; pedicels short, 

 hairy. Calyx J; in. long ; teeth ovate-lanceolate, as long as the tube. 

 Corolla blue, twice as long as the calyx-tube, straight, slender. — Benth. 

 in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. oU ; Engl. Hochgebirgstl. Trop. Afr. 871 ; Gurke 

 in Engl. Pfi. Osfc-Afr. C. 842 ; Britten in Gregory, Great Rift Valley, 

 896. A. remota, Benth. in Wall. Cat. No. 2088, in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 i. 59, and in DC. Prod. xii. 597; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abys.s. ii. 208; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 121. 



Var. crenata, Baker. Stem and leaves more hair v. Leaves more crenate. — A. 

 crenata, Hochst. ex lienth. in DC. Prod. xii. 597. A. remota, var. cur.esrens, Benth. I.e. 



M-ile I.and. Eritrea: Marakhat Valley, near Saganeiti, 6800-7100 ft., Schtcein- 

 furtk S: 7i'tY«, 834! Abyssinia: Tigre ; Adowa, Schimper, 325. Debra Sina, neai- 



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