Anisomeles.~] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 673 



3. A. candicans, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 59, and in DC. 



Prodr. xii. 456 ; softly tomentose or velvety, leaves shortly petioled lanceo- 

 late or oblong acuminate serrate, whorls axillary dense-fid, and in dense 

 terminal spikes, calyx - in. hirsute, teeth triangular-lanceolate acuminate. 

 Wall. Cat. 2038. M. malabarica, 8 nigrescens, Benth. in DC. I. c. 457: 

 Wall. Cat. 2037. 



BURMA ; at Prome and Yenanghuen, Wallich. 



A very doubtful species, of which there are two forms in Wallich's Herbarium 

 under the name, one with oblong obtuse petioled leaves, the other with subsessile 

 lanceolate ones, the latter agreeing with Bentham's A. malabarica, var. niarescens. 

 Of this last the calyx is that of ovata, the leaves of malabarica. 



4. A. malabarica, Br. in Sot Mag. t. 2071 ; densely tomentose or 

 thickly woolly, leaves short-petioled oblong linear-oblong or oblong- lanceo- 

 late obtuse acute or acuminate crenate or serrate, calyx - in. villous or 

 woolly, teeth narrow lanceolate. Wall. Cat. 2037 ; Hook. Journ. Sot. i. 

 225, t. 127 ; Wight Ic. t. 164 ; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 59, Lab. 702, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 456; G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 153; Dolz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 210. A. intermedia, Wight in Benth. Lab. 703, and in DC. 

 I. c. Nepeta malabarica, Linn. Mant. 566. Ajuga fruticosa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 1. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, abundant; Penang, Wallich. CEYLON, in hot dry places. 

 DISTRIB. Mauritius. 



Shrubby, 4-6 ft. ; branches sometimes very stout and most densely clothed with 

 snow-white appressed wool. Leaves 2-6 in., very thick, base cuneate, very rarely 

 cordate; petiole - \ in., very stout. Spikes sometimes very heavy with dense whorls 

 2 in. diam., densely woolly; bracts filiform, teeth very slender. Corolla purple. 

 Nutlets pale. 



37. ACHYROSPERTCUXK, Blume. 



Softly pubescent undershrubs or herbs; branches terete. Whorls in 

 dense spikes. Calyx, 10-nerved, lips short, upper erect, 3-fid ; lower shorter, 

 spreading, 2-fid. Corolla-tube slender, not annulate within; upper lip 

 short, erect, notched ; lower 3-lobed, midlobe largest concave. Stamens 4, 

 subequal, ascending ; anthers 2- or by confluence 1-celled. Style 2-fid. 

 Nutlets crowned with a rugged annul ns or chaffy beard. Species 5 or 6, of 

 India, the Malaya Islands, Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



A. Wallichianum, Benth. mss. ; hoary or tomentose or villous,'' 

 leaves elliptic-ovate acuminate crenate-toothed, blade decurrent on the long 

 petiole, bracts exceeding the calyx orbicular acuminate, nutlets crowned 

 with a lagged annulus. Teucrium Wallichianum, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. 

 Ear. ii. 19, Lab. 671, and in DC. I. c. 580 ; Wall. Cat. 2758. 



EASTERN SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Sikldm, alt. 3-6000 ft., J. D. H., to 

 Mishmi, Griffith. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-5000 ft.; Bruce, Griffith. TENASSERIM, 

 Heifer. 



Suffrutescent ; stem terete, 1-3 ft., simple or branched, rigid. Leaves 4-6 by 

 2-4 in., membranous, sparsely pubescent. Spikes 2-6 in., cylindric, glabrate or 

 villous; bracts membranous, ciliate. Calyx. \-^ in., rather inflated, membranous ; 

 teeth triangular, reticulate. Corolla \ in., white dotted with rose. Nutlets in., 

 turgid, faintly hairy. There are two varieties, one tomentose with villous spikes 

 from Silhet (Wallich) and Tenasserim ; the other more glabrous from the Khasia and 

 Himalaya. I suspect both may prove forms of the Javau A. densiflorum, Bl., from 

 which A. pkilijppinense, Beirth., does not differ. 



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