Dysophylla.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 639 



From SIKKIM and ASSAM through. E. BENGAL to PENANG and SINGAPORE. 

 DECCAN PENINSULA, from Goa southwards. CEYLON. DISTRIB. East to S. China, 

 Borneo and the Philippines. 



A coarse annual, 1-2 ft. ; hairs often shaggy, spreading. Leaves 1-3 in., acute 

 or obtuse ; petiole rarely^ in. Spikes -^- in. diam., pedicelled ; whorls all confluent. 

 Calyx not ^ in., enlarged, in fruit. Corolla ^ in., usually pink ; tube slender, far 

 exserted ; lobes hairy, filaments very villous. Nutlets ellipsoid, nearly smooth. 

 Some very villous specimens from S. India and Ceylon have stouter spikes and white 

 flowers, and may prove to belong to a distinct form. 



ft Leaves in whorls of three or four (rarely more). 



5. D. quadrifolia, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 30, Lab. 158, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 157; perennial, erect, tomentose, subsilky or pubes- 

 cent, leaves 4 in a whorl, shortly petioled linear or linear-oblong acute or 

 obtuse serrate or subentire, spikes elongate tomeutose or pubescent, base 



'often interrupted. Watt. Cat. 1539. D. velutina, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 1538. D. linearis, Wall. Cat. 1540. D. rupestris, Dalz. in Hook. Kew 

 Journ.iii. 120; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 208. Mentha quadrifolia, Roxb. 

 Sort. Benq. 44, and Fl. Ind. iii. 4. M. quaternifolia, Heyne in Herb. 

 Bottl. ; ? Both Nov. Sp. 256. Chotellia sericea, ' Opiz Sf Cor'da in Flora, 

 1830, 35. 



KHASIA MTS. ; on rocks by streams, alt. 3-6000 ft. CHITTAGONG, alt. 300 ft., 

 Clarke, to TENASSI-RIM, Wallich. SOUTH CANAEA ; on dry rocks, Malwar, Dal- 

 zell, &c., from the CiKCAESand CONCAN to MYSORE and the A*namallay Hills, Heyne, 

 &c. : Anamallays, Beddome. 



A stout undershrub, 2-4 ft., with a woody rootstock ; stem simple or branched. 

 Leaves very variable, 1-4 by -| in. ; petiole very short. Spikes 4-8 in., ^^ in. diam. 

 Calyx sometimes glabrate, teeth triangular. Qpcfer of chamomile (Dalzell). 



6. D. cruciata, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 30, and Cat. 1541 ; 

 Lab. 158, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 157 ; hirsute, stem simple erect, leaves 3-6 

 in a whorl sessile linear obtuse, margins revolute quite entire, spikes villous. 

 D. tetraphylla, Wight Ic. t. 1444. Mentha quadrifolia, Don Prodr. 113. 

 Dysophylla, Griff'. It. Notes, 80, n. 1165. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaou, alt. 5000 ft., Royle, &c., to Nepal, 

 Wallich. KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. ; Griffith, &c. * NILGHIKI HILLS; Wight. 



Siem 12-18 in., stout, strict. Leaves 1-1| in., suberect. Spikes sometimes 5 in., 

 -Jin. diam.; whorls confluent. Calyx villous. Corolla-tube scarcely exserted, lobes 

 glabrous. 



7. D. linearis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 157 ; annual, stem erect 

 simple and leaves sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves sessile 4 in a whorl 

 linear or linear -lanceolate obtuse, margins revolute entire or sparingly 

 toothed, spikes short, calyx glabrous. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft., in swamps and rice-fields ; Mack, H. f. Sf T., 

 Clarice. 



Habit of D. Qruciata, but nearly glabrous, with very different spikes, ^-2 in. long 

 and '- broad, and corolla and nutlets twice as large. 



8. D. verticillata, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 30, and Lab. 15P, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 157; annual, erect, branched, glabrous or very 

 sparsely hairy, leaves 4-10 in a whorl linear quite entire or obscurely 

 toothed, spikes sometimes whorled tomentose or villous, teeth of fruiting 

 calyx stellately spreading. Wall. 'Cat. 1544; Thicaites Enum. 239, excl. 

 syn. D. ramosissima, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 1543. D. Benthamiana, 



