656 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



S. minutiflora, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 50. Ocimnm fastigiatum, Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 277. Lumnitzera fastigiata, Spreng. Syst. ii. 687. 



Throughout INDIA, in the plains and ascending the hills to 5000 ft. (absent from 

 Ceylon). DISTEIB. China, Malay Islands, Australia. 



Stem stout, 6-18 in., strict, fastigiately branched. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowed at 

 both ends ; floral small, lanceolate. Calyx pedicelled, in. Corolla-tube very short, 

 not exserted, limb very small. Nutlets very minute, g ' D in. long, ellipsoid. 



11. S. segyptiaca, Linn. ; a very dwarf scaberulous hispid or 

 hoary much-branched undershrub, leaves few small subsessile linear or 

 lanceolate acute rigid crenate, whorls remote 2-3-fld., flowers small, calyx 

 glandular- hairy. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 355 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 631 ; 

 Jacq. Hort. Vind. ii. 49, t. 108. 



PANJAB PLAIN, from Delhi westwards, alt. 1-2000 ft. ; Jacquemont, &c. 

 DISTEIB. Afghanistan, W. Asia, N. Africa to the Cape Verde Islands. 



Branched from the base; branches straggling, divaricate, rigid. Leaves rarely 

 1 in. Whorls distant. Calyx nodding, pedicelled, ovoid-campanulate, fruiting \ in. 

 long ; upper lip orbicular minutely 3-toothed, teeth of lower subulate. Corolla and 

 stamens as in S. plebeia. Nutlets -jL in. long, narrowly oblong, nearly black. 



VAB. pumila; more scabrid and hispid, leaves very rigid and rugose, calyx 

 villous with long hairs. S. pumila, Benth. Lab. 726, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 356 ; 

 Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Sot. 128, t. 133. The Panjab plains and hills from Delhi 

 westward ; Scinde, Stocks j Affghanistan and Beluchistan. 



12. S. santolineefolia, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 1, v. 13, and Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 632 ; a dwarf much- branched hoary undershrub, leaves minute petioled 

 linear pectinately lobed, lobes rounded, margins revolute, whorls 2-3-fld. on 

 very slender spikes, flowers minute, calyx hispid with long hairs. 



SCINDE; on the Boogtie Hills, Vicary. DISTEIB. Affghanistan, Persia. 



THe specimens are flowerless and very insufficient, but I think referable to this 

 curious little species. The calyx resembles that of S. cegyptiaca, var. pumila. Floral 

 leaves persistent, elliptic, acute, T ' 5 in. long. 



EXCLUDED AND UNKNOWN SPECIES. 



S. INDICA, Linn. , is a Syrian plant, and not Indian, whence the name is changed 

 by Boissier to S. brachycalyx. 



S. ACAULIS, Vahl Enum. i. 157 j Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 354 (S. ocimoides, 

 Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 2148 ; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 68. S. lyrata, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 4, fid. Wight in Herb.}, is only known as a plant cultivated in the Mis- 

 sion Garden by Rottler, and is doubtless not Indian ; it has a long tubular corolla. 

 Roxburgh says his S. lyrata is American. 



S. GEEAKDIANA, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2150, is the American S. coccinea, L. (see 

 Wall. Cat., p. 92), cultivated in India. 



29. NEPETA, Linn. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite. Whorls axillary or ter- 

 minal; flowevb blue, yellow or white. Calyx tubular, 15-ribbed, equally 

 5-toothed, or 2 lower teeth narrower. Corolla-tube not annulate within, 

 throat inflated ; upper lip straight, notched or 2-fid ; lower 3-fid, midlobe 

 largest. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip or exserted, upper pair 

 longest ; anther-cells diverging. Style-lobes subulate. Nutlets smooth. 

 Species about 120, Temp. Europe, N. Africa and Asia. 



The following arrangement of the species of this troublesome genus is very artifi- 

 cial. I think that much better characters may be found in the corolla, but this would 



