LavandulaJ\ cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 631 



collected into simple or branched spikes. Calyx erect, 13-15-nerved, 

 5-toothed. Corolla blue, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fid, lower 3-partite, lobes all 

 spreading. Stamens 4, decliuate, included, filaments free; anther-cells 

 confluent. Style 2-fid. Nutlets smooth. Species about 20, chiefly 

 Mediterranean. 



1. Zi. Gibson!, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 149 ; villous, leaves pinna- 

 tifid, lobes oblong or linear, spikes densely villous, bracts ovate-lanceolate. 

 Dalz. Sc Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 206. L. Perrottetii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 

 147. L. Lawii, Wight Ic. t. 1439. 



The CONCAN ; hills at Sattara, Law, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., robust, leafy. Leaves 4-8 in., lower petioled, lobes acute or 

 obtuse. Spikes few, 1-2 in., robust; bracts villous, 1-fld., in. Fruiting calyx 

 1 in. long. 



2. Xi. Burmanni, Benth. Lab. 157, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 147; 

 pubescent, leaves pinnatisect, segments linear simple or cut, spikes 

 pubescent, bracts subulate. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 149; Wight Ic. t. 1438; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1438. Wawra, Itin. Pr. S. Cob. Bot. 109. L. 

 nmltifida, Burm. Fl. 2nd. 126 (excl. t. 38, f. 1). Bysteropogon bipinnatus, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 255. Cha3tostachys multifida, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Bar. 

 ii. 19, and Cat. 2757. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; common on the West from the Concan to Coorg. CENTER L 

 INDIA; Jubbulpore, Beddome. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout or slender, simple or branched. Leaves 3-4 in. long and 

 broad ; segments Vjs~<3 i n - broad. Spikes solitary or few, or numerous and subumbel- 

 late ; bracts 1-fld., nearly glabrous, tips capillary. Corolla blue or white. Fruiting 

 calyx in. long. 



12. POGOSTEXKON, Desf. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, very rarely 3-nately whorled. 

 Flowers small, in solitary or panicled spikes or contracted racemes formed 

 of many and dense-fid, subcapitate cymes (whorls). Calyx subequally 

 4-5-toothed. Corolla-tube exserted or included; limb spreading, sub-2-lipped ; 

 lobes 4, lower usually longest. Stamens 4, exserted, straight or declinate. 

 filaments usually bearded ; anther-cells confluent. Disc subentire, equal. 

 Style 2- fid. Nutlets smooth, ovoid or oblong. Species about 30, Indian and 

 E. Asiatic. 



* Spikes or racemes terminal and axillary, forming a panicled inflores- 

 cence. Filaments bearded in all. 



f Whorls forming continuous (rarely interrupted) spikes. 



1. P. paniculatus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 30, Lab. 153, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 151 ; erect, branched, laxly hairy or villous, leaves petioled 

 ovate irregularly inciso-serrate, base cuneate, whoris globose secuiid in 

 slender spikes, bracts obliquely suborbicular membranous ciliate, calyx 

 narrow, teeth lanceolate ciliate, filaments bearded. Wall. Cat. 1561 ; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 149 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 207. Elsholtzia paniculata, 

 Wllld. Sp. PL iii. 59. Hyssopus cristatus, Lamk. Diet. iii. lS7.Sheede 

 Hort. Mai. x. t. 65. 



TENASSEEIM; MABTABAN and Tavoy, Wallich, &c. PEGU; M'Clelland. W. 

 DECCAN PENINSULA, from the S. Concan to Travaucore. 



