ColquJwuma.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 675 



PEGU ; Karene Hills, Rev. F. Mason. TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Appaiviuly a very distinct species, of which the specimens are indifferent; 

 the acuminate calyx-teeth and long slender corolla are very unlike any form of 

 C. coccinea. 



39. STACHYS, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves crenate or serrate. Whorls axillary 

 and in terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx 5-10-nerved, teeth 5 subequal. 

 Corolla with usually a ring of hairs within, throat not dilated, upper lip 

 erect ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe the largest. Stamens 4, ascending; 

 anthers conniving, cells parallel or diverging. Style-lobes subequal. Nut- 

 lets obtuse. Species about 160, all temperate and some warm climates, 

 chiefly Oriental. 



* Herbs, stem ^-angled. Whorls many-fld., bracts as long as the 

 calyx. 



1. S. floccosa, Benth. Lab. 739, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 465; stout, 

 tall, erect, densely clothed with soft white wool, leaves petioled ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate cordate acute crenulate, whorls many-fld. axillary and in 

 a terminal spike, calyx-teeth spinescent, corolla woolly. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 5-6000 ft.; Jacquemont, 

 Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Stem 2-4 ft., simple, sometimes as thick below as the little finger, obtusely 

 4-gonous. Leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., thick, velvety above ; petiole -1 in., very stout. 

 Whorls dense, depressed, villous ; bracts nearly equalling the calyx ; flowers sessile. 

 Calyx % in. ; fruiting ^ in., villous ; teeth triangular, spinous point coloured. 

 Corolla-tube shortly exserted. Nutlets turgidly obpyriform, smooth. 



2. S. sericea, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 64, and Cat. 2077; tall, erect, 

 more or less densely villous with long silky hairs, leaves shortly petioled 

 ovate- or oblong-cordate acute crenate, whorls many-fld. axillary and in 

 terminal spikes, calyx-teeth spinescent, spines coloured. N Benth. Jjdb. 

 537, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 465. S. vestita, Benth. II. c. in part. S. 

 splendens, Wall. 1. c., and Cat. 2075, Benth. II. c., and in DC. I. c. 466, 

 in part. 



TEMPERATE .HIMALAYA ; from Nepal to Kashmir, alt. 6-9000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Afghanistan, Central Asia. 



A most variable plant, differing only in the hairiness from S. floccosa, of which it 

 is possibly a form. I cannot distinguish most of the specimens of Bentham's S. 

 vestita and S. splendens from it, though some plants under the former name may be 

 separated by the usually shorter calyx, the teeth of which have not the yellow spines 

 of sericea ; and these must be referred to S. melisscB/olia. The corolla varies in 

 length of tube, which is rarely exserted (S. splendens), and in breadth across the 

 lips, of -f in. ; the usual colour is pale pink spotted with purple. 



3. S. melisssefolia, Benth. Lab. 538, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 466, in 

 part ; tall, erect, tomentose or villous with silky hairs, rarely pubescent 

 only, leaves sessile or shortly petioled ovate- or oblong-cordate acute crenate, 

 whorls many-fld. axillary distant, calyx short, teeth triangular acute not 

 spinescent. S. oblongifolia, Benth. partly (Nepal specimens}. S. splendens, 

 Wall, in part. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 



Usually a smaller more slender and less hairy silky and leafy plant than 8. sericea, 

 best distinguished in its typical state by the shorter calyx as Abroad as long, with the 

 triangular teeth acute or with a thickened tip, not ending in a pale spine ; but there 



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