Brnnella.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 671 



4-11,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000. NILGHIEI and TEAVANCOEE MTS., alt. 

 6-8000 ft. DISTEIB. N. Temp. Zone, Andes, Australia. 



RootstocJc creeping. Stem 4-12 in., erect or ascending. Leaves 1-2 in., upper 

 sessile. Spikes 1-3 in., cylindric ; bracts ovate-cordate, ciliate, edges often purple. 

 Flowers dimorphic, larger 2-sexual, smaller female. Calyx-teeth very variable, awned 

 or not. Corolla -| in., purple or white. 



VAE. viilgaris ; glabrous or sparingly hairy. Himalaya Mts. 



VAE. hispida, Benth. in DC. I. c.; hispidly hairy. B. hispida, Benth. in 

 Wall. PL As. Ear. \. 66. B. ovata, Wall. Cat. 2133. Sikkim, Khasia and 

 Nilghiri Mts. 



34. ttXARRUBXUBX, Linn. 



Perennial tomentose or woolly herbs. Whorls axillary, flowers small. 

 Calyx tubular, 5-10-nerved ; teeth 5-10, equal, short, subspinescent. 

 Corolla short, tube naked or annulate within, upper lip erect, lower 

 spreading, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, included ; anthers glandular, cells 

 diverging. Style-lobes short, obtuse. Nutlets obtuse. Species 30, tem- 

 perate and warm regions of the Old World. 



1. IMC. vulgrare ? Linn.', tall, robust, shortly woolly, leaves petioled 

 ovate or orbicular crenate rugose, whorls axillary many and dense-fld., 

 calyx-teeth 10 subulate spreading and recurved, throat woolly. Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 153; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 703; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 t. 1224, f. 1. M. propinquum, Benth. in DC. I. c. (the Kashmir plant). 



WESTEEN TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft., Falconer. DISTEIB. 

 Westward through Europe and N. Africa. 



Stem 24 ft., leafy. Leaves ^-1^ in. diam., base rounded or cordate or cuneate, 

 leathery, wrinkled ; petiole -| in. Whorls depressed, villous. Calyx -| in., 

 coriaceous ; teeth often hooked at the tip. Corolla | in., white, tube slender, upper 

 lip long, 2-fid. Nutlets T L in., smooth. 



2. M. lanatum, Benth. Lab. 587, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 448; dwarf, 

 clothed with long soft white wool, leaves petioled rounded lobed and 

 crenate or ^-pinnatifid, whorls in a dense terminal cylindric or oblong 

 thickly woolly spike, calyx-teeth 5 acicular spreading and recurved, throat 

 naked. Mollucella Marrubiastrum, StepTi. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. ii. 8 ; 

 Ledeb. Ic. PI. Fl. Boss. Alt. t. 150. Lagopsis incana, Bunge Monog. 

 Molucc. ined. 



WESTEEN TIBET, alt. 15-16,000 ft. ; Thomson, Henderson. NOETHEEN 

 GTTEWHAL ; at Shelshil, alt. 16,000 ft., Strachey $ Winterbottom. DISTEIB. Turkestan 

 and Altai Mts. 



Stems many, ascending from the stout rootstock, stout, 3-6 in. Leaves very thick, 

 ^-1 in. diam.; petiole stout, as long or shorter. Spikes 1-2 in., I in. diam.; flowers 

 immersed in wool ; bracts linear or setaceous. Calyx-tube ^ in., membranous, teeth 

 as long, pungent. Corolla very small, upper lip short, entire. Nutlets ^ in. long, 

 hoary. 



35. CRANXOTOBXE, Eeichb. 



A perennial erect branched herb. Leaves long-petioled. Flowers 

 minute, in slender lax-fld. panicled racemes. Calyx ovoid, fruiting globose, 

 equally 5-toothed; throat constricted, villous within. Corolla, upper lip 

 minute, concave, entire ; lower longer, spreading, 3-fid. Stamens ascending 

 under the upper lip; anther-cells didymous, at length diverging. Style 

 subequally 2-fid. Nutlets very minute, subglobose, smooth. 



C. versicolor, Eeichb. Iconogr. i. 39, t. 54; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. 



