Ncpda.} cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 661 



I doubt this being more than a form of N. mollis with narrow bracts and a longer 

 more curved calyx. 



18. N. ciliaris, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 64, Lab. 475, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 379; tall, erect, branched, softly densely tomentose, leaves 

 shortly petioled ovate-cordate obtuse crenate, whorls secund dense-fid, in 

 long interrupted villous spikes, upper crowded, bracts lanceolate, calyx in. 

 curved villous, teeth slender shorter than the tube, nutlets broadly ellipsoid. 

 Wall Cat. 2082. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Gurwhal, 

 Royle, Jacquemont, Edgeworth. 



intern 2-3 ft., strict. Leaves f-H in., sometimes almost as broad, lower floral 

 laro-e. Spikes 4-8 in., pale; whorls sometimes shortly pedicelled. Corolla very 

 sun II, about ^ in., lilac, tube slender. Very like N. ruderalis, but the inflorescence 

 is more simple, the whorls rarely peduncled. Bentham describes the nutlets as 

 minutely granular, but I find them smooth. Clarke doubts Royle's habitat of 

 " ro:ul to Kashmir," and suspects that the species is confined to the Simla and neigh- 

 bouring hills. 



D. Whorls in branched panicles, some or all more or less peduncled. 

 * Corolla less than | in. long. 



21. N. ruderalis, Hamilt. mss. ; annual, erect or ascending, finely 

 pubescent or hoary, leaves petioled broadly ovate- or orbicular-cordate 

 obtuse crenate, whorls very dense-fld. subglobose in interrupted spikes 

 villous, the lower peduncled, calyx in. villous, mouth subequal, 3 upper 

 teeth triangular aristate, 2 lower filiform, nutlets obscurely granulate. 

 Benth. Lab. 475, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 64, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 

 381. N. secunda, Wall. Cat. 2122. N. calaminthoides, Benth. in DC. 

 1. c. in part. N. clinopocfioides, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. 

 iii. 379, Lab. 1. c., and in DC. Prodr. 1. c. 382. Glechoma erecta, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 7. Or. hindostana, Roth Nov. Sp. 258. G. indica, Spreng. Syst. 

 ii. 727. Thymus nepetoides, Don Prodr. 113. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL INDIA ; from the Indus to Behar, Central India 

 and the Concan, ascending the Himalaya to 8000 ft. DISTRIB. Aifghanistan. 



Stem 6 18 in., branched from the base, robust or slender, obtusely angled. Leaves 

 J-2 in., green or hoary; petiole ^-J in. Whorls -1 in. diam., unilateral, depressed ; 

 peduncles sometimes 1 in. ; flowei-s pedicelled. Corolla very small, J in., purplish, 

 tube shortly exserted. Nutlets J B in. long, broadly oblong. The granulation consists 

 of more or less tumid separated areolse, and is sometimes very indistinct. N. clinopo- 

 dioides, with a calyx less hairy and flowers smaller, is scarcely a variety, found on the 

 Jumna by Royle. Woodrow sends from Poona a plant resembling N. ruderalis in 

 habit, but with a large calyx and nutlets like N. bombaiensis (from which the calyx- 

 teeth distinguish it). 



22. N. bombaiensis, Dalz. in Dalz. $ G-ibs. Bomb. Fl. 209 ; erect, 

 branched, tomentose or laxly villous, leaves long-petioled rounded ovate- 

 cordate coarsely crenate, cymes all axillary few and lax-fld., peduncles 

 equalling the petioles, flowers long pedicelled, calyx \ in. laxly hairy, 3 upper 

 teeth broadly triangular acute much shorter than the tube, 2 lower subulate, 

 nutlets nearly smooth. 



The CONCAN ; old walls and rocks at Swenere Fort, Dalzell. 



Stem 1 foot. Leaves 2 in., green, sparsely hairy ; petiole 1 in. Cymes 6 S-fld. ; 

 bracts at the base elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, green. Corolla very small, pale 

 blue, with purple spots. Nutlets ellipsoid, T ' g in. long. A remarkable species, unlike 



