680 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Otostegla. 



lower spreading, 3-fid, midlobe broad. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers con- 

 niving, cells at length divaricate. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets obovoid, 

 obtuse. Species 8, Oriental. 



O. limbata, Benth. mss.; hoary, leaves subsessile elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtuse quite entire nerveless, bracts spinescent. Ballota limbata, Benth. 

 Lab. 743, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 521. 



PANJAB; lower hills in rocky places west of the Jhelum to the Salt range, 

 Falconer, Jacquemont, &c. 



A small grey spiny bnsh; branches tomentose, white, terete; spines |-f in. 

 Leaves 1 in., base narrowed, hoary on both surfaces, floral exceeding the calyces. 

 Whorls distant; lower bracts spinescent, upper dilated, pungent. Calyx villous, 

 throat bearded ; flowering in., turbinate, with a broad membranous 5-toothed limb, 

 which in fruit expands into a reticulated 5-angled cup, in. diam., with often toothed 

 margins. Corolla \ in., tube short ; upper lip very long, villous. Stamens exserted. 

 Nutlets \ in., solitary ?, flattened, smooth. 



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45. X.EUCAS, Br. 



Woolly or villous rarely glabrate herbs or undershrubs. Whorls 

 axillary, usually distant. Calyx 10-nerved, striate ; mouth equal or 

 oblique, equally or unequally 6-10-toothed. Corolla-tube included, annu- 

 late or not within ; upper lip erect, concave, crown villous ; lower spreading, 

 3-fid, midlobe very large. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers conniving, cells 

 divaricate at length confluent. Style subulate, posterior lobe obsolete. 

 Nutlets ovoid, triquetrous, obtuse. Species 50, Asiatic and African. 



Sect. 1. Sf er?.istoma. Calyx membranous, mouth oblique, split 

 above, produced beiow. Whorls dense, many-fld., bracteoles equalling 

 the calyx. 



1. Ii. urticaefolia, Br. Prodr. 504; annual, leaves ovate coarsely 

 toothed, whorls remote globose, calyx cylindric reticulated ^-J in. pubescent 

 or villous, lower lip truncate, teeth minute. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 

 524 ; Wight III. t. 176 b. f . 10, and Ic. 1. 1451 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 212 ; 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 778. L. membranacea, . Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2052. 

 Phlomis urticrefolia, Vahl Symb. iii. 76 ; Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 11. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN; from Patna to the Panjab, and southward to SCINDE, 

 COEOMANDEL and MALABAE. DISTBIB. Beluchistan, Arabia, Abyssinia. 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., hoary. Leaves 2-3 in., petioled, glabrous or hoary. 

 Whorls 1 in. dianu ; bracts ciliate. Corolla white, not annulate. 



Sect. 2. Ortholeucas. Calyx straight, mouth nearly equal, throat 

 naked; teeth 10, triangular, subulate or lanceolate. Whorls numerous, 

 axillary ; bracts usually minute, setaceous (long in 4. Helferi, 13. marru- 

 bioides and 15. pubescens}. 



* Perennial rooted. Branches terete. Calyx-teeth not I the length of 

 the tube. 



2. Xi. teres, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 62, Lab. 608, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xii. 526 ; shrubby, hoary-pubescent, branches very slender terete, 

 leaves very shortly petioled elliptic obtuse subserrate, whorls few-fld., bracts 

 minute, calyx-teeth minute subulate. Wall. Cat. 2060. 



BFBMA; banks of the Irawaddi, Wallich. 



Branches long, hairs deflexed. Leaves |-1 in., scaberulous above, tomentose 



