cxii. LABIATE. (J. I). Hooker.) 627 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 6-8000 ft., Macrae, &c. 



Stem stout, green. Leaves 2-5 in., petiole 1-2 in. Racemes or branches of the 

 panicle 3-6 in. ; pedicels short. Corolla 1 in. long, pale lilac, slightly decurved at the 

 middle, tube slender, as long as the cyliudric throat, lips very short, upper crenate 

 larger than the small ovate acute lower. 



10. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in dense oblong 4-gonal or cylin- 

 dric spikes. Calyx suberect, inflated below the middle, 2-lipped or 5-toothed, 

 rarely 1-lipped, upper lip entire and deflexed or shorthand 3-crenate. Corolla 

 2-lipped ; tube slender, decurved ; throat inflated ; upper lip short, entire 

 or 3-4-fid ; lower elongate, concave. Stamens 4, filaments free. Style 2-fid. 

 Z)/8c lobed. DISTRIB. Species about 16, Asiatic. 



* Fruiting calyx with the upper Up large, broad, entire, deflcxed, con- 

 cealing the mouth, lower truncate obscurely toothed. 



1. A. carnosus, Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 18, Cat. 2753; annual, erect, 

 glabrous or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate oblong or rounded obtuse 

 crenate fleshy, floral ovate obtuse, fruiting spikes 4-gonous then cylindric 

 obtuse, calyx glabrous pubescent or ciliate, lip deflexed ovate acute ciliate. 

 Sentk. Lab. 59, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 81 ; Wight III. t. 176 b, f . 1 ; Grali. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 148 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 206. A. crawsus, Benth. in. 

 DC. L c. A. glaber, Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. G-oett. 1833, 1. A. rupestris, 

 Wight Cat. 2521. Plectranthus strobiliferus, Roxb. Hurt. Seng. 45, and in 

 FL Ind. iii. 23. P. carnosus, Smith in Rees Cyclop, v. 27. P. dubius, 

 Spr. Syst. ii. 691. Lavandula carnosa, Linn. Amoen. Acad. x. 56, t. 3. 

 Origanum watariense, Ic. Roxb. Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 90. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon and Garwhal, ascending to 8000 ft., jEdgeivortl, 

 and throughout CENTRAL and SOUTHERN INDIA to Travancore and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Ava. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout, 4-angled. Leaves 2-3 in., rugose, sometimes densely tomen- 

 tose; petiole 5-2 in. Spikes long-peduncled, 13 in. long, ^^- in. diam. ; flowers 

 ^ in. long, pale purple. Calyx-tube very variable in length, glabrous or pubescent; 

 upper lip sometimes with the tip erect throughout the spike. A protean plant, the 

 varieties of which I fail to distinguish by good characters. 



VAR. purpurascens, Benth., from Ava, has narrow purple cylindric spikes and s- 

 very short Calyces. 



VARR. glabrior and villosior, Benth., explain themselves. 



VAR. e. ? viridis, Benth. (A. rupestris, Wight), is founded on an immature 

 plant with the habit of A. eriocephalus. A. crassus, Benth., differs in no way from 

 the type. 



2. A. scaber, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 81 ; shrubby, hoary-tornen- 

 tose, leaves small petioled oblong obtuse crenulate thick, peduncles very 

 long stout, spikes 1-3 oblong, calyx pubescent, lip deflexed ovate obtuse 

 ciliate. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight. 



Branches short, stout, ascending from a woody stem. Leaves 1-1 J in., densely 

 tomentose beneath. Peduncles 6-12 in. ; spikes 1-1^ by in., purplish when dry. 

 Calyx-tube very short ; upper lip glabrous except the ciliate margins. 



3. A. eriocephalus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 81 ; herbaceous, 

 glabrous or puberulous, leaves petioled broadly ovate or cordate crenate, 

 peduncles slender, spikes many ovoid or cylindric, calyx villous or woolly, 



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