240 LABIAT^E. [ ANISOCHILUS. 



throat inflated ; upper lip short, entire or 3-4- fid. ; lower elongate, 

 concave, Stamens didynamous, decimate, filaments free. Disk 

 lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style 2-fid. at the apex. Nutlets dry, ovoid, 

 smooth, basal scar small Species about 15, all confined to India 

 except one in Trop. Africa. 



A. carnosus, Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii, 18 ; Royle III. 301 ; F. B. I. iv 9 

 627; Watt K. D.; Prain Beng. PI. 847 ; Coolie Fl- Bomb, ii, 450. A 

 eriocephalus, Benth. ; F. B. I. i.e. Plectrantlms strobiliferus, Roscb. Fl. 

 Ind. Hi, 23. Vern. Panjiri. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high. Stem stout, bluntly 4-angled. glabrous or 

 sparsely pubescent, often tinged with red. Leaves rather fleshy, 1-2^ 

 in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, crenate, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, usually hairy beneath, petioles -! in. long. ^ Spikes ^-1| in. long, 

 4-gonous in flower and becoming cylindrical in fruit, peduncles slender ; 

 bracts | in. long, ovate, acuminate, ciliate, glandular. Calyx pubes- 

 cent, 5 in. long, enlarging in fruit ; upper lip ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliolate, bending over the lower lip and closing the mouth of the calyx 

 when in fruit ; lower lip truncate, its membranous ciliate tip reflexed 

 and appress&d against the tube. Corolla pale-purple, f in long, hairy 

 outside ; upper lip short, erect, with shallow lobes. Nutlets suborbi- 

 cular, compressed, polished and brown when ripe. 



Upper Gangetic Plain (IVallich), Banks of Jumna from Delhi to Allahabad 

 (Boyle), Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). Flowers Sep. and Oct. DISTRIB. 

 W. Himalaya, up to 8.0' ft. in Garhwal and Kumaon, and southwards 

 through (\ and S. India to Ceylon, extending to Ava. 



7. LAVANDULA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 630. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves incised or entire. Flowers in 2-10- 

 flowe.ed whorls forming simple or branched spikes, bracts persistent. 

 Calyx erect, ovoid, tubular, shortly and equally 5-toothed, 13-15- 

 nerved. Corolla blue or purple, rarely white, oblique, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip 2-fid., lower 3-partite, the lobes all spreading. Stamens 

 didynamous, declinate, included, filaments free, anther-cells con- 

 fluent. Disk equally 4-lobed. Ovary 4-partite, style shortly 2-fid., 

 the lobes flattened. Fruit of 4 dry smooth nutlets, basal scar some- 

 what oblique. Species 30, chiefly Mediterranean. 



L. Burmanni, Benth. Lab. Gen. $ Sp. 151 ; Royle III. 300 ; F. B. I. 



iv, 631 ; Prain Beng. PI. 848 ; Coolce Fl. Bomb, ii, 452. 



A slender erect herb. Stems 2-3 ft. high, simple or branched, 4-angled, 

 pubescent. Leaves sessile or nearly so, 2-4 in. long and as broad as 

 long, pinnatipartite or deeply pinnatisect j lobes linear, entire or cut or 

 ' ithed, obtuse or subacutef glabrous or pubescent above, pale and 



