620 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phdrantlms. 



or glabrate, leaves ovate crenate narrowed into the winged petiole, cymes 

 in lax-fld. panicled racemes, corolla-tube much shorter than the large saccate 

 lower lip, fruiting calyx narrow shortly 2-lipped, teeth acute, nutlets oblong 

 or subglobose. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 17, Lab. 42, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xii. 58 (excl. syn. Burm.); Wall. Gat. 2743. Ocimum Coetsa, Spreng. 

 Syst., Cur. post. 223. 



TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; fromMurreeto Mishmi, alt. 3-8000 ft., 

 abundant. KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-5000 ft. ; Burma, Wallich. 



A tall strong-smelling 6-8 ft. undershrub. Leaves 1-3 in. Cymes very numerous, 

 branchlets subsecund. Corolla in., lavender-blue ; upper lip very short. Stamens 

 included in the lower lip. Fruiting calyx ^,-g in., hoary or scaberulous. Nutlets 

 apparently variable. 



VAE. Hookeri; tall, leaves sometimes 5 in. glabrous or puberulous, fruiting calyx 

 larger -j in. very broad, teeth longer more acute, nutlets twice as large. Plectran- 

 thus no. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. P. Hookeri, Clarke inss. Khasia Mts. j 

 Moflong, alt. 5000ft., J. D. H. 3f T. T. 



18. P. menthoides, Benth. in Watt. PI. As. Bar. ii. 17, Lab. 42, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 59 ; tall, erect, branched, hoary pubescent or tomentose, 

 leaves petioled ovate crenate narrowed into the winged petiole, cymes in 

 long racemes dense or lax-fld., corolla short, tube about as long as the 

 saccate lower lip, fruiting calyx hoary, teeth subequal subacute, nutlets 

 oblong. Wall. Cat. 2744. P. Macraei, Benth. Lab. 42, and in DC. I. c. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1430. P. rugosus, 0. tomentosus, Benth. in Wall. 1. c. ii. 17; 

 Wall. Cat. 2745 B. P. Coetsa, Thwaites Enum. 237. Scutellaria japonica, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 130. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA, from Belgaum southward; Nilghiri and Pulney 

 Mts., by wet ditches, Wight. CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



The southern representative of P. Coetsa, and probably only a variety of that 

 plant. The length of the corolla-tube is variable, as is the pubescence of the leaves. 



19. P. BXaddeni, Benth. in Strach. Cat. PL Kumaon, 86 ; stout, erect, 

 branched, nearly glabrous, leaves ovate crenate narrowed into the winged 

 petiole, cymes in lax- or dense-fld. racemes, corolla-tube much shorter than 

 the saccate lower lip, fruiting calyx broadly campanulate glabrous, teeth 

 obtuse, nutlets subglobose. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 7-8500 ft., Strachey Sf Winterlottom, 

 DutMe; Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Very near P. Coetsa, and perhaps a form of it, but more glabrous, with broadei 

 fruiting calyces, which have obtuse teeth and more rounded nutlets. 



20. P. melissoides, Benth. Lab. 39, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 62 ; 

 herbaceous, erect, tomentose or puberulous, leaves small sessile or shortly 

 petioled ovate or rounded crenate, cymes in lax-fld. slender racemes, corolla- 

 tube short broad, fruiting calyx 2-lipped subhispid, teeth acute, nutlets 

 globose. Wall. Cat. 7122. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4^6000 ft. ; Wallich, Mack, Griffith, H.f. fy T , &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., rather slender, strict. Leaves | 1 in., glabrate or very tomentose 

 beneath or on both surfaces, narrowed into the short petiole. Racemes long, slender, 

 strict. Corolla \ in., pink ; lips short, gibbously hemispheric. Fruiting calyx 

 | in., broadly campanulate. 



21. P. rugosus, Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 17, and Cat. 2745 ; shrubby, 

 erect, hoary with stellate down, leaves small petioled ovate or elliptic obtuse 

 crenate rugose above beneath densely white-tomentose, cymes axillary lax- 



