Plectranihus^\ cxn. LABIATJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 621 



fid. panicled, corolla-tube very short, lips very large, fruiting calyx hoary, teeth 

 subequal acute, nutlets oblong. Benth. Lab. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 59, 

 var. a. ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 300. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; dry hills from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 3-8000 ft. BHOTAN ; 

 Griffith. MARWAE; on Mt. Abo, Stocks. DISTKIB. Affghanistan. 



A shvub ; branches slender, strict. Leaves 1 in. and less, leathery, finely reticu- 

 late above ; base subcordate, rarely acute ; petiole slender. Cymes in leafy racemes, 

 with slender peduncles and pedicels. Corolla ^ in., white, with rose or purple spots ; 

 lips much longer than the tube, lower longest. Fruiting calyx in. long, very 

 shortly 2-lipped. 



Sect. 2. Pyramidium. Fruiting calyx erect, tubular, equally 5-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube decurved, base gibbous. Nutlets trigonous, ovoid-oblong, 

 acuminate. 



22. P. ternifolius, Don Prodr. 117 ; robust, densely white-tomentose, 

 leaves opposite and ternately whorlecl stibsessile lanceolate acuminate serrate 

 rugose, cymes in dense long white villous panicles, corolla very short villous, 

 fruiting calyx cylindric, teeth subequal. Wall. Cat. 2748 ; Benth. in Lab. 

 44 ; in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 17, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 61 ; HooJc. Ic. PL 

 t. 460. Ocimum ternifolium, Spreng. Syst., Cur. post. 224. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 0-4000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 0-3000 ft. ^BENGAL, ASSAM. BEHAR, at Parusnath, J. D. H. DISTRIB. 

 Burma, S. China. 



A bush, 3-5 ft., with strict erect branches. Leaves 3-7 in., thick, rugose, base 

 acute. Panicles cylindric, white; lower bracts leafy; flowers subsessile, densely 

 crowded. Corolla white, with pink spots at base of upper lip ; tube inflated, and 

 lips very short. Stamens included. Fruiting calyx ] 6 -% in., straight, erect ; teeth 

 rounded. Nutlets trigonous, acuminate. 



Sect. 3. Coleoides. Fruiting calyx 2-lipped, upper lip large, rounded, 

 reflexed, very shortly 2-toothed or entire ; lower with 3 acute, awned, or subu- 

 late pointed teeth. Corolla-tube deflexed or declinate, base gibbous or not. 



23. P. incanus, Link jEnum. Sort. Berol. ii. 120 ; herbaceous, pale, 

 hoary, stem subsimple, leaves large long-petioled broadly ovate-cordate 

 crenate, cymes lax-fid, racemose, corolla-tube short longer than the short 

 hemispheric lower lip, base not gibbous, fruiting calyx broadly campanulate, 

 lower lip longest, teeth with long points, nutlets large subglobose. P. cor- 

 difolius, Don Prodr. 116 ; Benth. Lab. 35, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 16, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 66; Wall. Cat. 2736; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 148; Dalz. 

 # Gibs. Bomb. FL 205. P. secundus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45, and Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 20. P. divaricatus, Weinm. in Syll. PI. Soc. Ratisb. i. 68, and in Flora, 

 1826, 174. P. mollis, Spreng. Si/st. ii. 690. Ocimum molle, Ait. Hort. Kew, 

 ii. 322. 0. mayporense, Roth Nov. Sp. 27l.Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 84. 



Hills of CONTINENTAL INDIA, from the HIMALAYA (Simla to Sikkim), ascending 

 to 5500 ft., KHASIA MTS. and CENTRAL INI>IA, to the ANAMALLAYS. (Absent iu 

 Ceylon and in the Malay Peninsula.) 



Whole plant usually hoary with very fine pubescence. Stem robust below. 

 Leaves 24 in., sometimes as broad ; petiole as long or longer than the blade. 

 Corolla in. long, slightly decurved, white pubescent. Stamens included. Fruiting 

 calyx \ in. Nutlets T ' 2 in. diam. Lower lip of corolla longest of any Indian species. 



24. P. subincisus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 16, Lab. 36, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 66 ; glabrous or puberulous, stem short branched, leaves 

 long petioled orbicular ovate obtuse sinuate-crenate, corolla very small, tube 



