632 cxn. LABIAT.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pogostemon. 



Stem 3-5 ft., rather flexuous. Leaves 3-5 in., very membranous ; petiole short 

 or long. Spikes 4-8 in. ; whorls ^ in. diam. ; bracts very variable, shorter or longer 

 than the calyces, regularly secund and imbricate. Calyx g ^ in. long, membranous ; 

 teeth variable in length. P. coinosus, Miq., of Java, is very near this. 



2. P. Gardner!, Hook.f.; erect, stout, villous, leaves long-petioled ovate 

 inciso-crenate, base cuneate, whorls globose in stout dense spikes, bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate membranous ciliate, calyx- teeth, short broad ciliate. 



NILGHIBI MTS. ; Wynaad, Wight, Gardner. 



Very near P. paniculatus, but much stouter, more villous, leaves longer petioled, 

 whorls denser, bracts much narrower, not so unilateral and regularly secund and 

 imbricate, and calyx shorter with broader teeth. 



3. P. plectranthoides, Desf. in Ann. Mus. ii. 156, t. 6 ; shrubby, 

 hoary -pubescent, leaves petioled ovate acute doubly -toothed or -serrate, 

 whorls subsecund crowded in large stout spikes, bracts ovate glandular 

 exceeding the hirsute calyx, calyx-teeth shortly triangular-lanceolate ciliate. 

 Wall. Cat. 1530; Benth. in Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 31, Lab. 153, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 151; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 207; Bot. Mag. t. 3238. 

 ? Origanum benghalense, Burm. FL. Incl. 128, t. 38, f. 3. ? O. indicum, Both 

 Nov. Sp. 265. Mentha secunda, Roxb. Sort. Seng. 44. ? M. fruticosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 6 (not of his drawings). 



WESTEBN HIMALAYA, from Nepal to Simla, alt. 1-5000 ft. LOWER BENGAL and 

 BEHAE ; Patna and top of Parusnath, J. D. H., &c. The CONCAN, CANAEA and the 

 CIECAES. 



A large bush ; branches round, often dark purple. Leaves 3-6 in., longer than the 

 petiole. Panicle usually elongate, whorls distant or confluent, silkily villous. Calyx 

 subcylindric, % in., silky, ciliate. Corolla pink or white. Roxburgh's description of 

 Mentha fruticosa agrees with this, but his drawing represents a different plant with 

 glabrous filaments. 



4. P. villosus, Benth. Lab. 153, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 152 ; stout, 

 erect, villous all over, leaves large long-petioled ovate acute crenulate or sub- 

 sinuate and crenate, whorls crowded in cylindric panicled stout spikes not 

 secund, bracts ovate equalling the villous calyx, calyx silky or villous, teeth 

 shortly lanceolate. ? Elscholzia villosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 4. 



SILHET; Wallich. 



There are two forms of this in Herb. Wallich, both with leaves 5-7 in. long and 

 2-4 broad ; one is more robust with exactly ovate finely crenulate leaves ; the 

 other is more villous, and has broader sinuate and obscurely crenate leaves, and much 

 more numerous denser and shorter branched panicles. In both the whorls form con- 

 tinuous cyliudric spikes 2-3 in. long and ID. diam. Calyx in., sessile, narrow. 



5. P. purpurascens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 337 ; erect, 

 branched, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves long-petioled large 

 membranous ovate or ovate-lanceolate sinuate or cut and toothed or crenate, 

 base narrowly cuneate, whorls dense- fld. globose secund continuous or 

 separate in long peduncled hirsute spikes, bracts narrow falcate equalling 

 the calyx ciliate, calyx tubular, teeth long-subulate ciliate. Dalz. $r Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 207. 



The CONCAN and CANAEA ; Law, &c. 



H-bit and villosity of P. Gardneri, but tire calyx-teeth are much longer and more 

 slender. Stem 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 in. long. Spikes soiwtimes as long. 

 Calyx i in. long. Corolla white, with purple upper lip. Probably a large form of 

 P. parviftorus. 



6. P. parviflorus. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 31, Lab. 154, and 



