] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 663 



smooth. N. rotundifolia (Marmoritis, Benth. Lab.) is founded on imperfect speci- 

 mens of N.floccosa. 



27. N. graciliflora, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 65, Lab. 476, 



and in DC. Prodr. xii. 382 ; annual, glabrate or pubescent, stems many 

 from the root very slender branched, leaves long-petioled ovate or ovate- 

 cordate acute coarsely serrate or crenate, whorls very few-fld. axillary and 

 forming lax panicles with capillary branches and peduncles and long pedi- 

 celled flowers, bracts setaceous, calyx % in. pubescent or glabrous, upper 

 teeth triangular or lanceolate awned, lower shorter setaceous, nutlets granu- 

 late. Wall. Cat. 2123. 



PANJAB PLAINS, from Hurdwar to the Indus, and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA 

 N. of it, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Nearly allied to N. ruderalis, but much more slender, with membranous coarsely 

 crenate leaves, longer petioles and very lax few-fld. cymes, often on axillary long 

 filiform peduncles, and nutlets more strongly tubercled. Calyx-teeth as long as the 

 tube or shorter, variable in breadth. Corolla in.,- pale rose. Nutlets oblong, 

 5 ' s in. long. 



** Corolla more than \ inch long. 



28. N. Govaniana, Benth. Lab. 482, and in JDC. Prodr. xii. 388; 

 tall, erect, branched, finely pubescent, leaves large petioled ovate oblong or 

 elliptic acute crenate, cymes few-fld. distant long-peduncled in axillary 

 and terminal racemes, calyx ^ in. pedicelled puberulous, teeth triangular 

 much shorter than the tube, corolla 1 in. yellow, nutlets broadly oblong. 

 Dracocephalum Govanianum, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 65, and 

 Cat. 2127. 



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



<Stfew2-4ft., 4-angled. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-3 in., very variable, base acute rounded 

 or cordate ; petiole |-2 in. Racemes 3-6-fld. ; bracts minute. Calyx straight, 

 c^'liudric. Corolla yellow; tube long, very small, curved, greatly dilated above the 

 middle. Nutlets ^ in. long, broadly obovoid-oblong, quite smooth. 



29. N. erecta, Benth. Lab. 482, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 388; tall, 

 erect, branched, finely pubescent, leaves petioled ovate or oblong acute, 

 whorls many-fld. distant axillary or in terminal spikes, the lower usually 

 peduncled, calyx ^ in. pubescent, teeth triangular much shorter than the 

 tube, corolla -1 in. blue, nutlets broadly oblong. Dracocephalum erec- 

 tum, Royle ex Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 380. N". macrantha, Led. 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



Foliage of N. Govaniana, and calyx the same, but the inflorescence is contracted 

 to spikes of interrupted sometimes many-fld. whorls with only a tendency to the lower 

 being peduncled, and the flowers are blue. It is very near the Siberian N. macrantha, 

 but the nutlets are not linear. 



30. N. Clarkei, Hook. f. ; finely pubescent, erect, branched, leaves 

 shortly petioled ovate-oblong or -lanceolate subacute toothed or crenate, 

 whorls xlense-fld. distant in strict terminal spikes and shortly peduncled in 

 the lower axils, bracts lanceolate, lower leafy, calyx | in. pubescent, teeth 

 triangular acute much shorter than the tube, corolla in. blue, tube very 

 slender, nutlets linear. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, at Tilail, alt. 11,000 ft., and Kunylwan, alt. 

 7500 ft., Clarice. 



Stem strict, obtusely angled. Leaves 1-2 in., base acute or coidate; petiole 



