650 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Micromeria. 



distant in slender spikes, lower peduncled. M. Malcolmiana, Benth. in PL 

 Hohenack. n. 1402 ; Dalz. &r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 209. Marmbium Malcolmii, 

 Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 109. 



BEHAE; or Parusnath, alt. 4500 ft., Clarice. WESTEEN HIMALAYA; Dehra 

 Doon, Duthie. WESTEEN GHATS; from the Concan to the Nilghiris, Wight, &c. 



RootstocJc woody; stem 1-2 ft. Leaves -1 iu., ovate or oblong, flat ; floral 

 small; petiole short. Bracts small. Flowers \ in. Calyx villous; teeth long, 

 subulate, erect ; fruiting ^ in. Very aromatic. 



2. 1WC. biflora, Benth. Lab. 378, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 220; glabrous, 

 hairy or puberulous, stems short dense leafy, leaves small sessile ovate sab- 

 acute, whorls axillary small flew-fld. Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Hot. 129, 

 t. 134; Wight III. t. 176 bis, f. 5, and Ic. i. 1446. M. ovata, B'eck. in 

 Svhimp. PL Iter Abyss, n. 12. Thymus bfflorus, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 1556, Don Prodr. 112 ; Benth. in Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 31. 



TEOPICAL and TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA (exclusive of Sikkim) ; from Kashmir to 

 Bhotan, alt. 1-7000 ft. NIJ.&HIEI and ANAMALLAY HILLS. DISTEIB. Aflghanistan, 

 Arabia, Abyssinia, S. Africa. 



Dwarf. Rootstock woody, stems or branches excessively numerous, 3-6 in., 

 fastigiate, filiform. Leaves - in., margins thickened. Flowers small, often soli- 

 tary, pedicelled. Calyx hirsute, fruiting in. ; teeth subulate, very variable in 

 length. 



3. TIL. hydaspidis, Falc. mss.; Benth in DC. Prodr. xii. 224; 

 pubescent, stem erect, leaves shortly petioled ovate obtuse subcrenate, 

 whorls spicate many-fld. shortly peduncled, flowers pedicelled. \ 



WESTEBN KASHMIR ; Jhelum Valley from Patlee to Nashga Valley, Falconer. 

 Stem 10-18 in., erect, rather stout, subsimple. Leaves ^-f in. Spikes con- 

 tiguous or interrupted. Calyx 5 in. long, erect, puberulous ; teeth lanceolate. 



24. CAXiATCXNTXXA, Moench. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Whorls dense and axillary 

 or loose and panicled or spiked. Calyx 13-nerved, 2-lipped, upper lip 

 3-toothed, lower 2 -fid, teeth narrower than of the upper; throat naked or 

 villous. Corolla-tube straight, throat villous ; upper lip erect, flattish ; 

 lower spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4 (or 2 upper imperfect), ascending under 

 the upper lip ; anther-cells parallel or diverging. Style-lobes equal, or the 

 lower larger. Nutlets minute, subglobose, smooth, dry. Species about 40, 

 of N. temperate regions. 



1. C. Clinopodium, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 233; erect, softly 

 hairy, whorls dense-fid., bracts filiform equalling the calyx, calyx-teeth sub- 

 equal in length all very slender. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 579 ; Reichb. Ic. FL 

 G-erm. t. 1274, f. 1. Melissa Clinopodium, Benth. Lab. 392. Clinopodium 

 vulgare, Linn. 



WESTEEN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-12,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, Canada. 



Rootstock woody, stoloniferous. Stem 1-3 ft., slender, subsimple. Leaves 

 remote, 1-2 in., ovate, subacute, subcrenate. Whorls terminal and axillary, 3-1 in. 

 diam., depressed. Calyx 3- in. usually curved, hispid. Corolla f-1 in., purple, hairy. 

 Wild Basil. 



2. C. umbrosa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xHi. 232; procumbent, laxly 

 hairy, whorls globose lax or dense-fid., bracts short or long, upper calyx- 

 teeth with triangular teeth, lower with often longer subulate ones. Boiss. 



