COLEBROOKIA.] LABIATM. 243 



small, functionally dioecious, arranged in panic-led spikes, bracteoles 

 connate. Calyx-tube very short ; teeth long, subulate, elongating 

 in fruit, capillary and plumose. Corolla small, tube very short ; lobes 

 4, subequal. Stamens 4, equal, distant, exeeited in the male flowers, 

 included in the female flowers ; filaments naked, anthers orbicular, 

 cells confluent. Disk uniform. Ovary 4-partite, style 2-fid., pro- 

 truded in the female flowers. Nutlets 1-4, ob ovoid, dry, with hairy 

 tips, basal scar small. A single species, confined to India and Burma. 



C. oppositifolia, 8m. Exot. Bot. ii, 111, t. 115; Roxb. F1. Ind. Hi, 26 ; 

 F. B. 1. iv, 642 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilul For. Fl. 270; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Tivnl. 547 ; Collett FL SimL 3SS ; Prain Beng. PI. 851 ; Cooke Fl> Bomb, 

 ii. 458; Brandts Ind. Trees 515. C. ternifolia, Lionel.; FL Ind. tit, 25. 

 Vern. Pansra, linda (DehraDun). 



An erect tomentose much-bi anchor! shiub 4-10 ft. high: branches stout 

 sub quadrangular, grooved, usually in whorls of three. Leaves rugose, 

 softly hairy on both surfaces, crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 opposite or in verticils of three. 4-6 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute r 

 crenulate or serrulate, base acute, both surfaces softly haiiy, petioles 

 --l in. long. Spikes axillary or in panicles towards the ends <f the 

 branches, often 3-nately airranged, erect, cylindrical, slender when in 

 flower, becoming much stouter in fruit ; bracts solitary, ^ in. long, 

 linear, pubescent ; bracteoles many. ,1, in. long, connate at the base. 

 Calyx 5-partite J - in. long; teeth subulate, plumose with white hairs,, 

 elongate in fruit and often with purple tips. Corolla T \ in. long, white. 

 Nutleis usually solitary, 3^ in. long, oblong-ob ovoid, hairy at the tip. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, in ravines and by water-courses extending 

 along - the Sub-Himalayan tracts and eastwards to Gorakhpur. 

 Flowers in Jan. and Feb. DI&TRIB. Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. from 

 the Indus to Bhutan, and more or less throughout the hilly parts of 

 Cent., W. and S. India, extending to Tenasserim, Upper Burma and 

 China. The wood is used for making gunpowder-charcoal, and the 

 leaves are applied to wounds and bruises. 



11. MICROMERIA, Benth. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 649. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves usually small, entire or toothed. 

 flowers small ; whorls few- or many-flowered, in axillary or terminal" 

 spikes, rarely, panicled. Calyx 13-nened, 5-toothed or 2-lipped. 

 Corolla 2-lipped, tube straight ; upper lip entire or emarginate, 

 flattish ; lower spreading, 3-fid. Stamens didynamous, the lower 

 pair longer, ascending, incurved and with diverging apices; anther- 

 cells distinct, parallel, at length diverging, connective usually thicken- 

 ed. Ovary 4-lobed ; style 2-loted, the lot es equal or the upper very 



