Eremostacliys."] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 695 



panulate or upper lip broad membranous; teeth. 5, equal, setaceous. 

 Corolla-tube included, upper lip erect, hooded, bearded within ; lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, upper filaments 

 h'mbriate or appendaged at the base ; anthers conniving, cells divaricate. 

 Disk equal. Style-lobes equal or upper shorter. Nutlets obovoid, trique- 

 trous, truncate, top densely hairy. Species 27, W. Asiatic. 



1. E. superba, Royle mss.; Benth. in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 381, Lab. 

 637, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 548 ; root-leaves pinnatisect, segments lobulate, 

 the lower petioled, floral ovate acute, whorls many-fld. crowded in a very 

 stout woolly spike, calyx subcampanulate, mouth truncate shortly broadly 

 5-lobed. Royle III. 303, t. 74. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; Gurwhal, on the Kheree Pass, Royle. WESTEEN PANJAB ; 

 Peshawur, Vicarii. 



Stem 2 ft., strict, erect, unbranched, base f in. diani., softly hairy. Leaves, radical 

 ovate in outline, 8-12 in. ; lobes or peduncles broad, obtuse ; petiole hirsute ; cauline 

 few, small, sessile, pinnatifid. Spike 6-10 in. ; floral leaves erect, concave, covering 

 the flowers, deciduous. Calyx f in., woolly. Corolla-tube included, galea ^ in., 

 villous j lower lip broad, 3-lobed. 



2. E. Vicaryi, Benth in Aitch. Cat. PL Panjab $ Scinde, 119 ; root- 

 leaves pinnatisect, segments sessile pinnatifid, lower floral sessile oblong 

 lobulate, whorls many-fld., at length distant, calyx campanulate scurfily 

 tomentose, mouth truncate shortly 5-crenate, crenatures apiculate. 



WESTERN PANJAB ; Peshawur, Vicary ; Salt range, Jhelum, Aitchison. 

 DISTEIB. Beluchistan. 



Stem 3-5 ft., very stout, simple or branched. Leaves radical, 12-18 in., ovate in 

 outline, segments or pinnules sessile glabrous ; petiole stout, base woolly. Spikes 

 8-10 in.,, rachis very stout. Calyx J in. Corolla smaller than in E. superla, galea 

 villous and fringed with white hairs. 



3. IS. acanthocalyx, Boiss. Diagn. 2, iv. 49, and FL Orient, iv. 

 795; root-leaves pinnatisect, segments pinnatifid or lobulate, lower 

 petioled, floral short broad, whorls many-fld., bracts linear-lanceolate 

 spinescent, calyx campanulate stellately pubescent, teeth spinescent. E. 

 laciniata, Aitchison Cat. PL Panjab $ Scinde, 118 (not ofBunge}. 



WESTEEN PANJAB ; Peshawur, Stewart. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Afghanistan. 



Stem 3-5 ft., very stout, simple or branched. Leaves, radical 6-12 in., oblong- 

 ovate, hispid beneath ; floral very broad, sessile, concave, as long as the flowers, 

 deciduous; petiole and rachis hirsute. Whorls 1-2 in. diam., lower distant; bracts 

 shorter than the calyx. Calyx % in., mouth very shortly 5-lobed, lobes with a dorsal 

 spreading spine in. long. Corolla 1 in., tube exserted, galea pubescent, fringed 

 with white hairs. 



50. ERXOPHYTON, Benth. 



A dwarf thickly woolly herb. Leaves rounded or rhomboid, toothed. 

 Whorls 6-fld., axillary, crowded or the lower distant, flowers very large, 

 yellow. Calyx campanulate, 10-nerved, membranous, 5-lobed to the middle, 

 lobes finely acuminate. Corolla-tube included, upper lip very broad, galeate, 

 compressed, arching over the lower, which is small with 3 rounded lobes. 

 Stamens 4, posterior filaments thickened at the base ; anthers conniving, 

 villous, cells divaricate. Disk equal. Style-arms subequal. Nutlets large, 

 irregularly broadly obovoid and triquetrous, truncate, glabrous. 



E. Wallichianum, Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 63 (Wallichii), 

 Lab. 638, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 549 ; Wall. Cat. 2070. 



