612 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Acrocephalus. 



Throughout INDIA from Kashmir to Bhotan in the Himalaya, ascending to 

 5000ft.; and in hilly districts from the Khasia Mfcs. to Cape Comorin and Pegu. 

 (Not seen from Ceylon or the Malay Peninsula.) DISTEIB. Muneypoor, Burma, Java, 

 Borneo. 



Stem 6-12 in., simple or branched from the base ; branches ascending or 

 decumbent. Leaves -1 in., ovate or lanceolate, coarsely serrate, narrowed into the 

 petiole. Heads |-f in. diam., rarely cylindric, often with two spreading leaves at 

 the base ; flowers imbricating, suberect, in. long, pale purple. 



2. A. axillaris, Bentli. in DC. Prodr. xii. 48; stems and leaves 

 beneath pubescent, leaves small lower oblong upper orbicular many-nerved, 

 heads axillary sessile. 



ASSAM; Jenkins, Mack. 



Stem slender, erect, simple, a foot long and upwards. Leaves in distant pairs, 

 lower | in., upper | in. ; nerves very strong beneath, forming salient parallel ribs. 

 Heads %-% in. diam. A very singular plant, with the habit and ribbed leaves of a 

 Spermacoce ; the corollas have fallen away. 



6. IKOSCHOSBXA, Reickb. 



Herbs, annual or perennial. Whorls 6-10-fld., secund, in axillary and 

 terminal panicled racemes, flowers very minute ; bracts small. Oalyx ovoid 

 or campanulate, 5-toothed, fruiting declinate, upper or 3 upper teeth largest, 

 margins not decurrent; throat naked. Corolla-tube very short; upper lip 

 shortly 4-fid ; lower entire with 4 flat lobes. Stamens 4, declinate, filaments 

 free, toothless ; anther-cells confluent. Style clavate-capitate, tip 2-fid. 

 Nutlets compressed, smooth. Species 6, Tropical Asiatic, African and 

 Australian. 



IK. polystachyum, Bentli. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 13, Lab. 24, 

 708, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 48; nearly glabrous, stem acutely 4-angled, 

 leaves long-petioled ovate long-acuminate coarsely serrate, racemes very 

 slender. Reichb. in Wall. Cat. 2711 ; Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 204. Oci- 

 mum tenuiflorum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129, excl. syn. Rumph., not of Linn. O. 

 polystachyum, Linn. Mant. 567 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 18. Plectranthus parvi- 

 florus, Br. Prodr. 506, not of Willd. P. micranthus, Spreng. Syst. ii. 

 691. 



Wet places in BENGAL ; Dacca, Clarice. DECCAN PENINSULA, BURMA and 

 TENASSEHIM. CEYLON. DISTBIB. Java, China, Philippine Islands, Trop. Africa 

 and Australia. 



A very slender much-branched annual glabrate-or puberulous herb, 2-3 ft.; angles 

 of stem often scabrid. Leaves 12 in., very membranous, base cuneate, rounded or 

 subcordate, quite entire, narrowed into "a filiform petiole as long as the blade. 

 Racemes 3-6 in.; peduncles and rachis filiform ; whorls about 6-fld. ; bracts minute, 

 caducous ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Floivers T ' g in. long. Fruiting calyx 

 i- T ' g in. Corolla flesh-coloured. Nutlets black, smooth, ellipsoid. 



7. ORTHOSIPHON, Benth. 



Tinder-shrubs or shrubs. Whorls 6- or fewer-fid., racemose. Calyx 

 ovoid, campanulate or tubular, fruiting deflexed, upper tooth broad mem- 

 branous, margins decurrent on the tube, lateral and lower distinct or shortly 

 connate, usually subulate. Corolla-tube often slender, straight or incurved ; 

 upper lip 3-4- fid ; lower entire, concave. Stamens 4, declinate, filaments free, 

 toothless; snther-cells confluent. Disc usually gibbous. Style with a 



