Lcdlemantia.~\ cxn. LABIATE. (J. B. Hooker.) 667 



Zi. Royleana, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 404; hoary-pubescent or 

 glabrate, leaves shortly petioled ovate or oblong obtuse coarsely crenate, 

 bracts oblong or lanceolate, teeth long-awned, calyx-teeth erect with incurved 

 margins. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 674. Draco cephalum B/oyleanum, Benth. 

 in Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 65, and Lab. 497 ; Wall. Cat. 2129. D. inderiense, 

 Karel. $ Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xv. 424. ISTepeta erodiifolia, 

 Boiss. Diagn. v. 24. 



PANJAB PLAINS and HILLS ; from Lahore westward indigenous ? and cultivated. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan. 



Annual, erect, 6-18 in. ; stem branched or simple, obtusely angled. Leaves 

 -1 in., base cordate or narrowed into the petiole. Wkorls very numerous, in long 

 interrupted narrow spikes ; flowers shortly pedicelled ; bracts small, deciduous. 

 Calyx ^ in., erect, rigid. Corolla pale lilac, tube hardly exserted, limb small. 

 Stamens included. Nutlets ^ in., narrowly oblong, smooth. 



32. SCUTELLARIA, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Inflorescence various. Calyx 2-lipped, lips 

 closed in fruit, upper deciduous ; tube with a large deciduous shield or 

 pouch opposite the upper lip. Corolla-tube long, usually sharply recurved 

 from the base and erect, not annulate within ; upper lip entire or notched, 

 lower broad, 3-lobed. Stamens 4 ; anthers conniving, ciliate, lower 1- upper 

 2-celled. Disk elongate. Ovary oblique, upper style-lobe short. Nutlets 

 very minute, smooth, granulate or hispidulous. Species about 90, N. Temp, 

 and Tropical, many Andean. 



* Flowers in short leafy terminal spikes tliat are ^-angled in bud, 

 bracts 



1. S. prostrata, Jacquem. mss. ; Benth. Lab. 733, and in DC. 



Prodr. xii. 413; dwarf, prostrate, much branched, tomentose, leaves 

 small petioled ovate coarsely toothed, spikes short 4-gonous, bracts ovate, 

 corolla 1 in. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 8-14,000 ft., Jacque- 

 mont, &c. 



RootstocJc stout ; stems many, 4-8 in., flexuous, subterete. Leaves ^ 1 in., base 

 cordate or cuneate. Spikes 1-2 in. Corolla yellow tipped with violet. Nutlets 

 hispidulous. 



2. S. Heydei, Hook. f. ; dwarf, prostrate, much branched, branches 

 and calyx hirsute with long spreading hairs, leaves very small shortly 

 petioled ovate or cordate obtuse crenate, spikes short 4-gonous, bracts 

 ovate, corolla f in. S. glutinosae, Benth. var. ?, Aitchison in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot. xix. 183. 



WESTERN ALPINE HIMALAYA; Zanskar, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson, Heyde. 

 DISTKIB. Afghanistan. 



Habit of S. prostrata, but leaves more woolly, smaller, shorter-petioled, and with 

 long spreading white hairs on the branches and calyx. Corolla yellow, tipped with 

 blue or rose. Near S. pulchella, Bunge, of the Altai. 



** Flowers in long narrow racemes, bracts shorter than the pedicel and 

 calyx. 



3. S. discolor, Coleb. in Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 66 ; pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves long-petioled elliptic obtuse crenate, base rounded or 

 cordate, floral minute, racemes very long slender, flowers scattered rarely 



