Gompkostemma.] cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) 699 



Stem 2-3 ft., flexuous, rooting for half its length. Leaves membranous, sometimes 

 sparsely hairy above, nerves beneath puberulous, base acute ; petiole |-1 in. Eracts 

 ovate or lanceolate. Corolla 1^ in. long, pubescent ; throat inflated, in. diam. 

 Nutlets scarlet. 



13. G. velutinum, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 13, Lab. 649, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xii. 552 ; densely velvety-tomentose, stem prostrate 

 rooting below, leaves H-2 in. thick petioled elliptic subacute crenate, 

 whorls few-fld., bracts equalling the calyx slender, calyx in. villous, teeth 

 lanceolate. Wall. Cat. 2709. 



ASSAM, SILHET and KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft. ; Wallich, &c. 



Stem flexuous or tortuous. Leaves the smallest of the Indian species, equally 

 velvety on both surfaces ; base cuneate ; petiole ^-1 in. Corolla 1 in., tube rather 

 short ; throat long, moderately inflated. 



14. G-. ovatum, Wall. Cat. 2155 ; stem short suberect, petioles whorls 

 and leaves beneath softly tomentose, leaves 4-6 in. long-petioled broadly 

 elliptic obtuse crenate puberulous above, whorls few-fld., bracts longer than 

 the calyx ovate leafy, calyx in., teeth narrowly lanceolate, corolla 1J in., 

 tube and throat long. 



TKOPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem ascending or suberect, not creeping, 10-12 in. Leaves membranous, base 

 cuneate ; petiole 1-3 in. Bracts as in &. strobilimim. Coro lla pale yellow, 

 pubescent, tube gradually dilating into the funnel-shaped throat. 



15. G. Blasters!!, Benth. in Herb. 2nd. Or. H.f. fy T. ; stem short 

 ascending and leaves beneath and whorls pubescent or tomentose, leaves 

 petioled 4-8 in. broadly (rarely narrowly) elliptic ovate obtuse toothed or 

 crenate pubescent or setose or subsilky above, whorls few-fld., bracts equal- 

 ling the calyx lanceolate with filiform points, outer sometimes ovate, calyx 

 |-f in., teeth lanceolate, points very slender, corolla 2 in., tube long. G. 

 melisssefolium, Wall. Cat. 2157, in part. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3000 ft. ; J. D. H. ASSAM, KHASIA MTS., ascending io 

 4000 ft., SILHET and CACHAR ; Wallich, &c. 



A very variable plant, possibly not distinct from G. ovatum. Root-tubers fusiform, 

 |-1 in. long. Leaves in some specimens with long spreading hairs on the upper 

 surface, in others with deep irregular crenatures, in others with a rounded or even 

 cordate base ; petiole 1-2^ in. Whorls occasionally shortly peduncled (as in G. 

 pedunculatuni). Corolla pubescent, ochreous, yellow, tube gradually dilating into 

 the throat. 



52. LEUCOSCEPTRUIV1, Smith. 



A tomentose or villous shrub or small tree. Leaves large. Whorls in 

 dense cylindric terminal spikes, bracts large, transversely oblong caducous. 

 Calyx campanulate decurved, teeth rounded. Corolla minute, 5-lobed; 

 lobes rounded, upper largest. Stamens very far exserted, filaments very 

 long, straight in flower, diverging, pubescent below; anthers reniform, 

 1-celled, very short. Style-arms minute, subulate. Nutlets elongate- 

 cuneate, triquetrous. 



Xi. canum, Sm. Exot. Sot. ii. 113, t. 116; Benth. in Wall. PL. As. 

 Ear. i. 58 ; Wall. Cat. 2023. Teucrium macrostachyum, Wall, in Benth. 

 Lab. 664 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 574 ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 302, and 

 List of Trees, Sfc., of Darjeeling, 62. Clerodendron Leucosceptrum, Don 

 Prodr. 103. Buddleia, Griff. Notul. iv. 125 ; Itin. Notes, 107 (n. 94 a], 



