610 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Geniosporum. 



coloured ; flowers small or minute. Calyx ovoid in flower, in fruit tubular, 

 snberect or declinate, 5-toothed, upper tooth broadest, not decurvent ; 

 lateral free, or connate with the upper ; lower short, free or connate. 

 Corolla-tube short, upper lip 4-fid, lower declinate entire. Filaments free, 

 toothless. Disk tumid, gibbous. Style-arms short, flattened. Nutlets 

 ovoid or oblong, smooth or punctulate. Species 6 or 7, Indian and African. 



1. G. strobiliferum. Wall. Cat. 2749 ; erect, puberulous, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate coarsely serrate, floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting 

 calyces erect, throat glabrous. Benth. Lab. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45 ; 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 462. Plectranthus coloratus, Don Prodr. 116. Labiata, 

 Griff. Itin. Notes, 82, n. 1192. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; in dry forests from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 1-5000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft., common. 



Stem 2-3 ft., obtusely angled. Leaves 2-5 by 1^-2 in., base acute or rounded, 

 narrowed into the petiole of ^-f in. Spikes 25 in. ; bracts white, deciduous. 

 ' lowers $ in. long. Calyx pubescent, with 2 black glands on the lower lip. Corolla 

 1 lite with purple veins, hairy, lower lip narrow. Filaments exported. Fruiting 



..> tubular, pedicelled, | in. long, deeply pitted. Nutlets ellipsoid, black, smooth, 

 Li.md towards the top. 



2. &. elons atum, Benth. Lab. 21, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45 ; erect 

 or ascending, pubescent, stems very slender, leaves subsessile narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, lower floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting calyces spreading, throat 

 naked. Thwaites J&num. 236. B/hinanthus indica, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Lid. 

 131, t. 39, f. 1. 



NORTHERN CIRCARS ; Teypur Hills, Beddome. CEYLON ; Central Province, in 

 grassy places, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., angles thickened. Leaves in distant pairs, 1-2 by - ^ in., crenate- 

 serrate, base narrowed. Spikes 3-5 in. ; bracts orbicular-ovate, subpersistent ; 

 flowers ^ in. long. Calyx hirsute. Corolla very small, hairy. Filaments exserted. 

 Fruiting calyx T ' 5 in. long, ovoid, strongly ribbed, pitted, lobes short. Nutlets ellips- 

 oid, smooth. 



3. G-. prostratum, Benth. in PI. As. Ear. ii. 18, Lab. 21, 708, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 45; prostrate, stems slender glabrous pubescent or hirsute, 

 leaves small sessile or petioled obovate-lanceolate or oblong or linear 

 sparingly toothed, fruiting calyces spreading shorter than their pedicels, 

 calyx-throat with a ring of hairs. Wall. Cat. 2751 ; G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 

 148 ; Thwaite* Enum. 237. Ocimum menthoides, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129. O. 

 prostratum, Linn. Mant. 166. O. macrostachyum, Poir. Suppl. i. 492 ; 

 Benth. Lab. 16. O. tenuiflorum, Heyne in Herb. Rottl., not of Benth. ? of 

 Linn. Mentha ocimoides, Lamk. Diet. iv. 103. Elsholtzia ocimoides, 

 Pers. Syn. ii. 114. Lumnitzera prostrata, Sprenq. Syst. ii. 687. Thymus 

 indicus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129. Mentha, Burm. Tlies. Zeyl. 158, t. 70, f. 2. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Coucan southwards. CEYLON ; warmer part of 

 the island. 



Stems many from a woody stock. Leaves in distant pairs, very variable, from 

 by in. to 2 by f in., rather thick, base narrowed. Spikes elongate, slender; 

 whorls close or distant; bracts ovate, acute, reflexed ; flowers minute, pedicelled. 

 Calyx hairy, upper lip very variable in size, throat hairy. Corolla ^ in., hairy. 

 Filaments exserted. Fruiting calyx ^ in., subcampanulate, ribbed, tube not pitted, 

 pubescent. Nutlet* extremely minute, ellipsoid, smooth, naked. 



VAR. gracilis, Thwaites Enum. 237 ; steins very slender, 12-18 in. , leaves glabrous, 

 narrower. G. gracile, Benth. Lab. 21, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45. Deccau Peninsula 

 and Ceylon. 



