652 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Melissa. 



2. KfL. flava, Benth. Lab. 394, in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 65, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xii. 241 ; calyx nearly f in., corolla yellow, tube longer than the 

 calyx. Wall. CM. 2126. 



NEPAL, Wallich ; KUMAON, alt. 7600 ft., Madden, Strachey $ Winterbottom. 

 BHOTAN, Griffith. 



I much doubt this being more than a variety of M. parviflora. It is, however, 

 a larger plant. 



26. PEROWSK.IA, Karel. 



Erect, branched, strong- scented, rigid, hoary and scurfy, dioecious under- 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, incised or crenate. Whorls small, distant, in simple 

 or compound or panicled spikes, 2- or more-fid. ; flowers small. Calyx short, 

 terete; lips short, upper minutely 2-3- toothed, lower 2-toothed. Corolla 

 2-lipped, tube exserted, with a ring of hairs within, lower lip oblong entire, 

 upper broad spreading erect 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 lower fertile, erect, diverg- 

 ing; 2 upper minute, imperfect; anther-cells linear, parallel. Disk swollen 

 behind. Style-lobes acute. Nutlets pyriform, smooth, dry. Species 4 or 5, 

 Central Asiatic. Genus of doubtful affinity. 



1. P. atriplicifolia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 261 ; densely clothed 

 with white stellate scurf, leaves oblong-ovate or lanceolate crenate-serrate 

 or incised, calyx hispid. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 589. 



WESTERN TIBET, Falconer ; Lahul, Capt. Hay ; Karakoram and Iskardo, alt. 

 7500-10,200 ft., Clarice. DISTEIB. Affghanistan and Beluchistan. 



A rigid herb, 2-3 ft., paniculately branched. Leaves 1-2 in., rigid, rugose. 

 Whorls 2-6-fld. Calyx \ in. Corolla twice as long. I doubt this being more than 

 a form of the following. 



2. P. abrotanoides, Kiril. in Bull. Mosq. 1841, 15, t. 1 ; densely or 

 sparsely clothed with white or grey stellate scurf, leaves linear-oblong 

 incised or pinnatisect, calyx clothed with long cottony wool. Boiss. Jfl. 

 Orient, iv. 389. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-13,000 ft., Thomson, &c. DISTEIB. Affghanistan, 

 Persia, Turcomania. 



A much-branched twiggy shrub or undershrub, 2-4 ft. high, woody below, with 

 the habit of a Lavandula. Leaves 1-2 in., sometimes bipinnatisect, crenatures or 

 lobes or segments obtuse. 



27. MERXANDRA, Benth. 



Shrubs smelling of sage, hoary or woolly. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong, crenulate, rugulose above. Whorls many, dense-fid. , large and in 

 terminal broad ^ spikes or small and in panicled calkin-like spikes with 

 closely imbricating bracts ; flowers small. Calyx ovoid, upper lip concave, 

 subentire; lower '2-fid; throat naked. Corolla-tube short, equally 4-fid ; 

 lobes flat, upper entire or 2-fid. Stamens short, stout ; 2 lower fertile erect 

 distant, one or both of upper imperfect ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, 

 pendulous. Style 2-lamellate. Nutlets obovoid, smooth, brown. The fol- 

 lowing are the only species. 



1. M. strobilifera, Benin. Lab. 188, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 29, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 262 ; flocculeutly woolly, spikes 4-angled with imbricat- 

 ing appressed bracts. Wall. Cat. 1527; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 301. 



WESTEBN TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA ; on dry rocks from Simla to Kurnaon, 

 alt. 5-6000 ft. 



