692 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phlomis. 



lanceolate, or linear ; flowers yellow, purple or white. Calyx 5- or 10-nerved, 

 usually plicate, mouth equal truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla-tube usually 

 annulate within ; upper lip concave, crown villous (except P. rugosa & 

 breviflora?), lower spreading, 3-fid. Stamens 4, ascending, posterior fila- 

 ments often appendaged at the base ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 

 Disk equal. Style 2-fid, upper lobe shortest. Nutlets ovoid or obovoid, 

 triquetrous, top glabrous. Species about 45, Oriental and Temperate 

 Asiatic. 



* Stem and branches terete. 



1. P. spectabilis, Falc. mss.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 542; tall, 

 stout, hoary, leaves large broadly ovate-cordate crenate or sublobulate 

 rugose stellately tomentose beneath, tip rounded, whorls many-fid., bracts 

 filiform rigid hispid, calyx - in. pubescent, teeth spiniform shorter than 

 the tube. 



WESTEBN HIMALAYA; Kashmir and Kishtwar, alt. 3-8000 ft., Jacquemont, 

 Falconer, &c. DISTEIB. Afghanistan. 



Stem 4-6 ft., terete, as thick as the little finger, hoary or loosely stellately downy. 

 Leaves sometimes a foot broad and not so long, nerves beneath softly hairy ; floral 

 small 5 petiole 6-12 in. Whorls 1| 2 in. diam. ; bracts with acicular tips. Corolla 

 rose-purple, galea beautifully fringed with silvery hairs. Nutlets | in. long, linear. 

 P. oreophilla, Karel. & Kiril., from Alatau, is probably a small state of this. 



2. P. cashmeriana, Eoyle III. 303, t. 75 A ; stout, erect, densely 

 clothed with stellate white flocculent wool, leaves linear-oblong obtuse crenate 

 rugose, base cordate, whorls many-fid., bracts filiform tomentose and ciliate, 

 calyx 5~f in. plicate tomentose, teeth spiniform half the length of the tube. 

 Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 382, Lab. 630, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 542 ; 

 Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 22. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 5-6500 ft., Royle, Thomson, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Affghanistan. 



Stems several from the very stout rootstock, 2-3 ft. high, terete. Radical leaves 

 long-petioled, 5-9 by 2-4 in., coriaceous, finely pubescent above, nerves reticulate 

 beneath ; petiole 4-6 in. Whorls 1-1| in. diam. ; bracts numerous, f in., tips 

 acicular. Corolla pale purple ; galea very large, tomentose, not fringed ; lower lip 

 very broad, adze-shaped. Nutlets broadly oblong, \ in. long. 



3. P. Stewartii, Hoolc.f.; densely stellately woolly, stem short stout 

 woody branched, leaves shortly petioled linear-lanceolate subulate crenulate 

 rugose above, base attenuate, whorls many-fid., bracts stout narrowly linear 

 acute, calyx 3 in. densely woolly angled, teeth very short triangular 

 recurved. 



PANJAB ; beyond the Indus, on the Suliman and Salt ranges, alt. 2500-4500 ft., 

 Stewart, Talbot. 



A low shrub, with spreading terete branches 6-10 in. long ; wool flocculent, buff- 

 coloured. Leaves 3-5 by - f in., very leathery, scaberulous above. Whorls 1 in. 

 diam.; bracts as long as the calyx, much thicker than in P. cashmeriana. Corolla 

 small ; galea tomentose, margin not fringed. Nutlets (ripe ?) very small. 



** Stem and branches 4- angled. 



4. P. macrophylla, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 62, and Cat. 2065 ; stem 

 tall stout hirsute or glabrate, leaves long-petioled broadly ovate or oblong 

 crenate, base broadly cordate, petiole almost as long as the blade, bracts 

 equalling the calyx slender rigid ciliate, tips spinescent, calyx | in. sparsely 



