628 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anisocliilus. 



upper lip deflexed broadly ovate acuminate. A. decussatus, Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 206. 



BEHAE; on the Kymore Hills, J. D. H. DECCAN PENINSULA; rocky ghats from 

 the Concan, Dalzell, &c., southwards; Bellary, Wight. 



A more sleuder plant than the Concan form of A. carnosus, but perhaps only a 

 state of that variable plant. 



4. A. Wig"htii, Hook. f. ; shrubby, hoary-tomentose, leaves shortly 

 petioled oblong or ovate obtuse crenate, peduncles long stout, spikes 

 3-6 cylindric narrow, calyx minute villous, upper lip deflexed very small 

 acute. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Anamallay Mts., Wight. 



A very distinct-looking plant, with the habit and dense pubescence of A. sealer, 

 but the long narrow spikes not in. diam., almost black when dry, and the minute 

 calyx (about ^ in. long) with acute upper lip, seem very different. 



5. A. paniculatus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 82; stout, shrubby?, 

 glabrous or hoary-tomentose, leaves shortly petioled obovate or rounded 

 obtuse crenate, spikes numerous small short panicled, calyx pubescent or 

 tomentose very short, upper lip small deflexed obtuse ciliate. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Maisor ? G. Thomson. CEYLON ; Herb. Eottler, 

 Walker. 



Stew, very stout below. Leaves and branches densely ciliate-tomentose in the 

 Madras specimens, puberulous brown in the Ceylon ones. Spikes - in. long, on 

 divaricating peduncles and pedicels. Calyx hispidly pubescent, about T 1 2 in. long, 

 tube very short. Fruit not seen. 



** Fruiting calyx with the upper lip short, broad, recurved or hooded, 

 entire or ^notched, not concealing the mouth, lower truncate. 



6. A. dysophylloides, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 19, Lab. 

 60, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 82; silkily tomentose, stout, shrubby, decum- 

 bent, leaves thick subsessile obovate or oblong obtuse entire or crenate, 

 Bpikes very many longer than the leaves axillary and terminal cylindric, 

 peduncles very stout, calyx woolly, corolla-tube very short included. 

 Wall. Cat. 2756 ; Wight Ic. t. 1434. A. purpureus, and A. albidus, Wight 

 Ic. tt. 1435, 1436. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; Wight, &c. ; ANAMALLAYS, Beddome. 



Stem as thick as a swan's quill, woody. Leaves 1-2 in., narrowed into the 

 petiole, silky on both surfaces. Spikes 1-3 in.; peduncles short, very stout. 

 Fruiting calyx T ' g in. long, nearly as broad. Corolla white or purple. 



7. A. plantagrineus, Hook. f. ; dwarf, shrubby, pubescent, stem or 

 branches very short, leaves sessile oblong-obovate obtuse entire, spikes 

 terminal solitary elongate narrow, peduncles very stout tomentose, calyx 

 woolly, corolla-tube exserted declinate. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bababoodan Hills, Dalzell, Law, Stocks. 



Rootstock often as thick as the thumb, sending up short stout branches leafy at the 

 top. Leaves |-1| in. Spikes 2-3 in., longer than their peduncles; bracts 3-lobed. 

 Calyx small, upper lip obscurely lobed. 



^ 8. A. suffruticosus, Wight Ic. t. 1437 ; shrubby, very stout, densely 

 thickly tomentose, leaves shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate subacute entire, 

 nerves very stout and close beneath, spikes numerous long peduncled in 

 terminal racemes, calyx pubescent, corolla-tube exserted sharply declinate 

 from above the base, calyx-lips very short truncate. 



