658 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Nepeta. 



specimens. Clarke makes of his a var. latilracteata with broader bracts than Bentham 

 describes. Habit of Brunella. 



5. N. nervosa, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 378, Lab. 

 469, and in DC. Prodr. xri. 372 ; stem tall subsimple glabrous,_leaves sessile 

 or shortly petioled linear-lanceolate acuminate serrate, spike cylindric 

 robust, bracts ovate or lanceolate mucronate, calyx sessile in., teeth very 

 slender laxly villous. N. campestris, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



WESTEEN TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 6-10,000 ft., Falconer, 

 Jacquemont, &c. 



Rootstoclc long, woody. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-4 by - in., base rounded or 

 cordate. Spike stout, 1-3 in. Calyx membranous; teeth as long as the tube, 

 filiform. Corolla twice as long, pale blue. Stamens included. 



VAE. lutea; flowers yellow. Western Tibet; Karakoram, alt. 14,000 ft., 

 Clarke. 



6. N. campestris, BentJi. Lab. 734, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 372 ; stem 

 tall subsimple sparsely hairy, leaves sessile narrowly oblong-lanceolate sub- 

 acute serrate, spikes slender, bracts all ovate mucronate, calyx sessile 5 in., 

 teeth very slender glabrous or ciliate. 



WESTEEN TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, Jacquemont, to Kumaon, 

 alt. 7-9000 ft., Madden, &c. 



Closely allied to N. nervosa, but the leaves appear to be always sessile (which 

 distinguishes it from .ZV. spicata), the spikes are much longer and more slender, the 

 calyx-teeth more glabrous and divergent, and the corolla-tube more slender. 



7. N. elliptica, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 378, Lab. 

 470, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 373 ; stem branched villous, leaves subsessile 

 elliptic oblong or oblong-cordate, tip rounded or acute pectinately crenate, 

 spike long slender often interrupted, bracts ovate or lanceolate awned, 

 calyx sessile in., teeth filiform ciliate as long as the tube. N. polystachya, 

 Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. I. c. 



WESTEEN TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft. 

 Stem 1-2 ft., often flexuous, usually woolly. Leaves |-1 in., tomentose. Flowers 

 very much as in N. nervosa. 



8. N. Thomson!, Benth. mss. ; finely pubescent, stems short stout 

 very leafy, leaves sessile or shortly petioled oblong-cordate obtuse or acute 

 crenate, floral large, whorls in a dense ovoid or conical spike with large 

 leafy crenate bracts, calyx in. scaberulous, teeth ovate-lanceolate much 

 shorter than the tube. 



WESTEKN TIBET ; Hanle, alt. 14,500-16,000 ft., Thomson. EASTEEN TIBET ; 

 north of Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Stem a span to a foot high, stout, simple or with simple ascending branches 

 from the base. Leaves close set, 1-2 by |-| in.; petiole rarely ^ in.; floral 

 similar. Spike of dense approximate superposed whorls with green elliptic bracts 

 far exceeding the calyces. Corolla not seen. Nutlets large, nearly ^ in., 

 suborbicular. 



9. N. supina, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. iii. 365 ; erect, branched, 

 finely pubescent, leaves small sessile ovate obtuse crenate, floral subsimilar 

 or narrow, whorls d^nse-fld., lower axillary, upper in an ovoid spike, bracts 

 lanceolate, calyx in. curved narrow villous, mouth very oblique, teeth 

 setaceous shorter than the tube, nutlets linear. Benth. Lab. 473, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 374 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 462. 



