Calammtha.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 651 



.F7. Orient, iv. 578. C. Clinopodium, var. umbrosa, HooJc. f. in Thwaites 

 JSnum. 239. C. repens, Benth. in DC. 1. c. 233. C. nepalensis, Fisch. <$f 

 Mey. In d. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1845, 53, n. 521. Clinopodium repens, JRoxb. 

 Sort. Bencf. 44, and Fl. Ind. iii. 13 ; Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 66 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2130. Thyrmis repens, Don Prodr. 113. Melissa umbrosa, 

 Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. ii. 63 ; Benth. Lai. 392 ; Wight Ic. t. 1447. M. 

 repens, Benth. Lab. 392. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; 'from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 4-12,000 ft. KHASTA 

 MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. WESTERN GHATS; from the Concan to the Anamallay 

 Hills. CEYLON ; at Newera Elia. DISTEIB. Affghanistan, Caucasus, China, Japan, 

 Java. 



A very common and variable Indian plant with difficulty distinguishable in some 

 states from C. Clinopodium, Wallich's Nepal specimens being as robust, and with equally 

 long bracts, and calyx almost as large ; but the habit is usually decumbent or pro- 

 cumbent, and more slender, the bracts shorter, calyces only g in., their upper-lip 

 segments shorter and more recurved. I am quite unable to distinguish C. repens from 

 C. umbrosa; a diminutive form of it has very small calyces with short broad upper 

 teeth sometimes strongly recurved. C. nepalensis is a very stout suherect Kashmir 

 form with numerous often close-set and sometimes spicate whorls, short bracts and 

 short calyx-teeth. N 



3. C. long-icaulis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 234 ; erect or decum- 

 bent, softly hairy, whorls lax-fld. subsecund, bracts very minute, calyx- 

 teeth short subequal in length not ^ the length of the tube. Thymus 

 piperitus & origanifolius, Don Prodr. 112. Clinopodium longicaule, Benth. 

 in Wall. PL As. Bar. i. 66 ; Wall. Cat. 2131. Melissa longicaulis, Benth. 

 Lab. 395. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. 



Stem 2-3 ft., slender, woody below. Leaves % in., quite entire or with a few 

 crenatures. Whorls towards the ends of the branches, 2-6-fld. ; bracts shorter thau 

 the calyx. Calyx ^ in., hispid, glabrate or hairy within, teeth short. Corolla violet, 

 tube slender, twice as long as the calyx. A very distinct plant. 



25. MELISSA, Linn. 



Erect branched herbs. Leaves opposite, crenate. Whorls axillary, 

 secund, lax-fld. Calyx, 1 3 -ribbed ; lips small; upper flattish, 3-toothed; 

 lower 2-toothed. Corolla-tube recurved and ascending ; upper lip erect ; 

 lower flat, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, arching and meeting under the 

 upper lip ; anther-cells at length divaricate. Style-lobes subequal, subulate. 

 Nutlets narrowly obovoid, smooth, dark. Species 2 or 3, S. European and 

 Asiatic. 



1. M. parviflora, Benth. Lab. 394, in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 65, arid 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 241 ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, calyx 35- in., 

 corolla white, tube very short, Wall. Cat. 2825. Geniosporum -axillare, 

 Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 18 ; Wall. Cat. 2752. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Gurwhal, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft., 

 and Mishmi. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTBIB. Java. 



Pubescent or glabrate. Stem tall, erect, angles hirsute. Leaves 1-4 in., base acute 

 rounded or cordate ; petiole -1 in., slender. Whorls numerous, few- or mauy-fld. ; 

 flowers pedicelled. Calyx-teeth very variable in length of the acute points ; bracts 

 narrow. Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx. Very near M. officinalis, which 

 has its Eastern limit in Eastern Persia, but the leaves are more acute and the lower 

 calyx-teeth are broader and shorter, but these are variable characters in the European 

 plant. 



