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pubescent ibeneath. Spikes simple or more or less branched, or some- 

 times subumbellate, bracts pubescent, $-% in. long, broadly ovate and 

 strongly nerved at the base, the apex ending in a long capillary awn. 

 Calyx (in fruit) grey-pubescent, in. long, tube somewhat curved; 

 teeth lanceolate, acute and with pennicillate tips. Corolla blue or white, 

 nearly in. long, hairy outside ; tube ^ in. long, slender below ; upper 

 lip |- in. long ; middle lobe of lower lip twice as long as the 2 lateral 

 ones. Nutlets oblong-ellipsoid, mucilaginous, when moistened. 



Central India at Indore (Jacquemont). This is the only known record of 

 this plant as occurring within the area of this flora. There is, however^ 

 every reason to suppose that it is not restricted to a single locality. 

 Flowers Oct. and Nov. DISTEIB. Chota Nagpur, and in Western, 

 Cent, and S. India. 



8. POGOSTEMON, Desf . ; Fl. Brit, Ind. iv, 631. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate. 

 Flowers small, in simple or panicled spikes or contracted racemes 

 formed of many dense-flowered subcapitate cymes (whorls). Calyx 

 subequally 5-toothed. Corolla somewhat 2-lipped, 4-lobed; upper 

 lip 3-lobed, the middle lobe often longer and narrower than the lateral ; 

 lower lip flat, spreading, narrow, entire. Stamens 4, subequal, 

 exserted, straight or declinate, filaments usually bearded, anther-cells 

 confluent. Disk subentire, equal. Ovary 4-partite, style shortly 

 2-fid. Nutlets dry, smooth, ovoid or oblong, basal scar small. 

 Species about 30, in India and Malaya to Japan. 



P. plectranthoides, Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. n, 155,t.6;F.B. I. 



iv, 632 ; KanjilalFor. FL 272 ; Collett FL 8iml. 387; Prain Beng. PL 849, 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 454 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 516. Mentha fruticosa - r 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 6. 



A large gregarious aromatic bush; young parts grey-tomcntose ; branches 

 terete or subquadrangular, often tinged with dark-purple, pith large. 

 Leaves 2-5 in. long, ovate, acute, doubly seriate, rounded or cuneate at 

 the base, petioles ^-1 in. long. Flou-ers in dense villous bracteate 

 whorls crowded in numerous stout cylindric spikes 1-4 in. long, the whole 

 forming an erect terminal panicle ; bracts leaf -like, up to ^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute, softly hairy and glandular, enclosing a fascicle of sessile 

 flowers ; bracteoles mostly linear-lanceolate, often tinged with purple. 

 Calyx Q-^ in. long, glandular-pubescent ; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 

 ciliate, usually tinged with purple at the apex. Corolla % in. long, white 

 tinged with pink ; tube % in. long, slender, curved ; upper lip in. 

 long ; middle lobe longer and narrower than the 2 obtuse lateral ones j 

 lower lip shorter than the upper, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire. Fila- 

 ments bearded with long lilac moniliform hairs. Nutlets minute,, 

 broadly ellipsoid, shining, dark-brown, when ripe. 



