PLECTRANTHUS.] LABIATE. 239 



Fruiting calyx decurved, corolla blue . . . 1. P. Ccetsa. 

 Fruiting calyx erect ; corolla white spotted with 

 pink . . . . . . . . 2. P. ternifolius. 



1. P. Ccetsa, Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don Prod. 117 ; F. B. I. iv, 619 ; Collett 

 FL. Siml. 3S5 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 447. 



A tall erect much-branched strong-smelling perennial herb, 3-6 ft. high. 

 Stems stout, 4-angled, pubescent, often tinged with red. Leaves 1^-4 in. 

 long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, crenate or iserrate, softly pube- 

 scent above, white-tomentose beneath, base tapering into the more or 

 less winged petiole, nerves and .veins prominent beneath ; petioles - 

 in. long, stout, woolly. Flowers in many short cymes which are arranged 

 in long axillary and terminal pubescent panicled racemes ; pedicels 

 slender, deflexed, hairy. Calyx clothed with stiff grey hairs, in flower 

 yVto i n l n e an d campanulate, decurved in fruit and tubular ; tube 

 curved, 10-ribbed ; teeth subequal, acute. Corolla, ^-\ in. long, lavender- 

 blue, hairy outside, tube abruptly decurved ; upper lip obscurely lobed ; 

 lower longer, boat-shaped. Nutlets broadly ellipsoid or suborbicular 

 smooth, yellow. 



Dehra Dun, in the Nakraunda swamp (Kanjilal). DIKTRIB. Sub-trop. 

 and Temp. Himalaya from the Punjab to Mishmi, up to 8,000 ft. ; also 

 oti the Khasia Hills and in Burma, extending to Afghanistan, the 

 Konkan, Deccan, S India and Ceylon. 



2. P. ternifolius, D. Don Prod. 117 ; F. B. I. iv, 621 ; Kanjilal For. Fl> 

 272 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 386; Prain Beng. PL 846 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 516. 

 Elsholtzia Thompsoni, Hook.f. in F. B. I. iv, 643. 



A bush-like herb, 3-6 ft. high ; branches erect, densely white-tomentose 

 Leaves opposite and ternately whorled, sessile or nearly so, thick 

 rugose, 4 *- in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, Lase acute ; upper 

 surface hairy, lower white-tomentose. Cymes shortly stalked, crowded 

 in erect cylindric villous racemes forming terminal panicles, lower 

 bracts leaf -like. Calyx tomentose ; tube campanulate when in flower 

 elorgate tubular and erect in fruit ; teeth subequal, acute. Corolla 

 white with pink spots at the base of the upper lip ; tube inflated, longer 

 than the calyx, limb very short. Nutlets trigonous, acuminate. 



Dehra Dun, at Karwapani (Kanjilal); N. Oudh, at Gadughat (R. 

 Thompson), Kheri forests iHearle). DISTRIB. Outer Himalayan 

 ranges from Kashmir eastwards, up to 5,(00 ft.; also in Bengal, the 

 Khasia Hilla, Manipur, Upper Burma and Tonkin. 



6. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 627. 

 Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in dense oblong 4-angled or 

 cylindric spikes, bracts caducous. Calyx sub erect, inflated below the 

 middle, 2-lipped or 5-toothed, rarely 1 -lipped ; upper lip entire and 

 deflexed, or short and minutely 3-lobed ; lower lip short, truncate 

 obscurely toothed or none. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube selnder, decurved, 



