694 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Plilomis. 



DC. Prodr. xii. 545; nearly glabrous, leaves long-petioled membranous 

 elliptic or oblong-ovate acuminate minutely toothed, whorls small, bracts 

 filiform, calyx ^ in. obconic-campanulate glabrous or hispid, teeth very 

 slender from a triangular base. Wall. Cat. 2067. Gomphostemma mem- 

 branifolium, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 988. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Pomong, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H., Clarice. KHASIAMTS., 

 alt. 5-6000 ft. ; Wallich, &c. UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi Hills and Patkoye Mts., 

 Griffith. DISTRIB. Java, Philippines. 



Stem tall, 2-3 ft., stout or slender, minutely hairy, hairs deflexed. Leaves 6-8 

 by 3-4 in., glabrous or with minute scattered hairs above, base acute or rounded; 

 petiole 3-4 in., very slender. Whorls distant, often many below the leaves |-1 in. 

 diam. Calyx coriaceous, teeth half the length of the tube. Corolla faintly pubes- 

 cent, white or yellowish, upper lip narrow, lower with narrow side-lobes. Nutlets 

 very large, in. long, obovoid, base acute, tip rounded. An anomalous Phlomis with 

 the calyx of P. breviflora, but very different leaves. The name rugosa is wholly 

 inapplicable. 



9. P. rotata, Senth. in Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.fy T. ; stemless, leaves 

 large rotately spreading orbicular or reniform coriaceous crenate rugose 

 densely tomentose lacunosely reticulate beneath, whorls in a very short 

 spike or subsessile head, bracts filiform, calyx . sparsely hispid, teeth 

 spinous. 



ALPINE SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in the inner ranges, alt. 13-16,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Annual ? Leaves 3-6 in. diam., very thick, suddenly contracted into a very 

 broad tomentose petiole | in. broad; nerves very thick, flabellate; floral or 2 

 oblong crenate. Whorls sometimes on a slender peduncle 2-3 in. long, at others 

 forming a dense head 1 in. diam. or less in the centre of the leaves ; bracts with 

 acicular tips. Calyx % in., funnel-shaped, rather membranous, teeth short. Corolla 

 small, tube included, galea pubescent, densely fringed with white hairsf. A very 

 remarkable plant, with the habit of Lamium rhomboideum. 



48. NOTOCHJETE, JBentk. 



An erect herb. Leaves long-petioled. Whorls axillary, globose, densely 

 many-fid. ; bracts slender, at length spinous with hooked lips. Calyx 

 5-nerved, membranous ; teeth 5, equal, with long hook-tipped spines at the 

 back. Corolla very small, tube included, not annulate ; upper lip erect, 

 concave ; lower spreading, subequally trifid. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers 

 conniving, cells divaricate. Style-lobes minute, subequal. Nutlets narrow 

 oblong, triquetrous, truncate, smooth. 



N. hamosa, Sentk. in Wall. PL As. Ear. i. 63, Lai. 636, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xii. 547 ; Wall. Cat. 2068 ; Hook. Ic. PL t. 1217. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich -, Sikkim, 

 alt, 4-8000 ft., J. J). H., &c. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Stem creeping at the base, 2-4 ft., stout, 4-angled. 

 Leaves 510 by 35 in., membranous, ovate, acuminate, toothed, base acute rounded 

 or subcordate; petiole 2-3 in. Whorls 1-li in. diam., densely spiny, bracts longer 

 than the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube g ^ in., slender, villous above the middle, fruiting 

 hard 4-valved ; spines at length in. Corolla as long as the calyx-spines, galea 

 villous, lower lip as long subequally 3-lobed. 



49. EREIVXOSTACHYS, Bunge. 



Erect herbs. Leaves, radical broad, toothed or cut ; cauline few, smaller. 

 Whorls densely many-fid., axillary and in a terminal spike. Calyx subcam- 



