244, LABIATE. [ MICROMEEIA, 



short ; the lower recurved, flattened. Outlets 4, dry, ovoid or oblong, 

 basal scar small. Species about 60, found in nearly all parts of the 

 world, but not in Australia. 



1. M. capitellata, Benth. in DC. Prod, xii, 218 ; F. B. I. iv, 649 ; 

 Watt E. D. ; i'rain Beng. PL 852; CooJce Fl. Bomb, ii, 459. 



A slender herb, 1-2 ft. high, very aromatic, root stock woody. Stems 

 erect, 4-angled, pubescent, often tinged with purple. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, -1 in. long, ovate or oblong, subobtuse, hairy and gland-dotted 

 on both surfaces ; margins crenate or entire, ciliate, petioles - in. 

 long. Flowers in distant subglobose whorls ; cymes of lower whorls 

 peduncled, the upper sessile, the whole forming a long slender spike- 

 like raceme ; floral leaves smaller upwards ; bracts small,. linear-lanceo- 

 late, hairy. Calyx ^ in. long (in flower), hairy and glandular, divided 

 of the way down into erect lanceolate ciliate teeth. Corolla $ in. long, 

 hairy outside ; upper lip pale-violet, oblong and slightly emarginate ; 

 lower twice the length of the upper, dark-violet. Nutlets ellipsoid, 

 smooth, brown when ripe. 



Dehra Dun (Dathie). DISTRIB. Chota Nagpur, Deccan and on the 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



12. CAL AMINTHA, Moench. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 650. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers small, 

 whorls dense and axillary or loose and panicled or in spikes. Calyx 

 13-nerved, 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2-fid. and with 

 narrower teeth, throat naked or villous. Corolla 2-lipped, tube 

 straight, throat Bilious ; upper lip erect, flattish ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens didynamous ( the upper pair rarely imperfect ) ; 

 lower pair longer, ascending under the upper lip ; anther-cells dis- 

 tinct, parallel or diverging. Ovary 4-lobed ; style 2-fid., the lobes 

 qual, or the lower larger. Nutlets 4, minute, subglobose, dry, 

 smooth. Species 40, chiefly in temperate regions of the N. 

 Hemisphere. 



C. umbrosa, Fisch. and Mey. Ind. Sem. tiort. Petrop. vi,6; F. B.I. 

 iv, 650; Collett Fl. Siml. 393; Prain Beng. PL 853. Clinopodium 

 ripens, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 13. 



A small slender procumbent or decumbent laxly hairy herb. Leaves f-l| 

 in. long, ovate, serrate. Flowers in small globose lax or densely 

 flowered whorls ; bracts small, not forming an involucre. Calyx i in. long ; 

 teeth of upper lip triangular, those of the lower longer and subulate. 

 Corolla purple, hairy. Nutlets very small. 



Dehra Dun, rather common DISTRIB. Temperate Himalaya from Kash- 

 mir to Bhutan, up to 12,000 ft., Khasia Mts. up to 4,000, and in the hJly 



