Nepeta.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 657 



require a careful re-examination of the whole genus. I suspect that some of the 

 Indian species will prove identical with Persian. JDracocephalum stamineum & 

 Hooker i should probably be transferred to Nepeta. 



A. Whorls in single terminal oblong or cylindric spikes, which are rarely 

 interrupted at the base. (The spikes of 13. N. discolor and others are occa- 

 sionally interrupted; and species placed under C. occasionally present 

 solitary simple spikes.) 



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* Leaves bipinnatifid. 



1. N. botryoides, Ait. Hort. Kew, ii. 287 ; annual, branched, laxly 

 hairy ; leaves sub-2-jmmatifid,. bracts linear-subulate, spikes cylindric 

 dense-fid., calyx tubular"" straight. N. multifida, Linn. Suppl. 273. N. 

 annua, Pall, in Act. Petrop. 1879, ii. 263, t. 12. N. bipinnata, Cav. Ic. 

 Ear. i. 36, t. 49. 



WESTERN TIBET; Rupchu, alt. 14,500 ft., Thomson. DISTEIB. Soongaria, 

 Altai. 



Annual, 6-12 in., robust. Leaves \-\ in., segments linear or oblong, obtuse. 

 Spikes 1-3 in., flowers small. Calyx pedicelled, fruiting in. long, membranous, 

 teeth mucronate. Corolla very small, yellow. Stamens short. 



** Leaves entire or crenate, sessile or subsessile. 



2. N. linearis, Royle mss. ex Benth. in HooJc. JBot. Misc. iii. 377, 

 Lab. 469, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 371 ; rootstock tuberous, stems ascending, 

 leaves sessile linear acute or obtuse, spike ovoid or oblong, bracts lanceolate 

 or subulate, calyx in. peduncled hairy, teeth spinescent. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Simla, alt. 7-11,000 ft., 

 Falconer, &c. 



Rootstock often as large as a walnut. Stems 6-18 in., stout, sparsely leafy, 

 glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 1-3 by -^-\ in. Spikes 1-2$ in. Calyx tubular, 

 fruiting 5- in. or more. Corolla-tube twice as long, throat dilated, lips short. Varies 

 much in size of all parts. 



3. N. connata, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 378, Lab. 

 469, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 371 ; tall, stout, glabrous or hairy, rootstock 

 tuberous, stem simple, leaves sessile narrowly linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 entire, base cordate, spike cyliudric, lowest floral bracts large ovate aristate, 

 upper narrow, calyx in. pedicelled hairy, teeth very long-awned. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Dalhousie to Kashmir, alt. 8-11,000 ft., 

 Falconer, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., sometimes as thick as a swan's quill, glabrous, rarely woolly. 

 Leaves 3-6 by -f in., coriaceous, sometimes sinuate-toothed. Spikes 1-5 in., 

 lower whorls sometimes axillary. Calyx-teeth as long as the tube, very slender. 

 Corolla twice as long, blue. Stamens included. Nutlets -j' 2 in., orbicular, compressed- 

 trigonous, brown, shining. 



4. N. eriostachya, Benth. Lab. 734, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 371 ; 

 stem subsimple sparsely hairy, leaves sessile broadly ovate or ovate-cordate 

 obtuse crenate, lower floral similar, spike cylindric -oblong dense-fld. villous, 

 calyx sessile \ in., teeth slender plumose. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Buspa Valley, Jacquemont; Kashmir, over 

 Sonamurg, alt. 11,500 ft., Clarke; Gunvhal, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Duthie. 



Stem ascending, 6-10 in. Leaves ^-f i n>> sometimes nearly as broad, pubescent . 

 beneath. Spikes 1-3 in. Cali/x membranous, teeth as long as the tube. Corolla 

 twice as long, bright blue. Stamens included. I have not seen Jacquemont's 

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