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portions of Peninsular India from the Konkan and southwards to 

 Ceylon j extending to Afghanistan, the Caucasus range, China, Japan 

 and Java. This species is closely allied to C. Clinopodium (Wild Basil), 

 differing by its more slender and procumbent or decumbent habit ; 

 the bracts and calyx are much shorter, and the upper lip of the latter is 

 more recurved. 



13 ANISOMELES. R. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind, iv, 672. 

 Tall erect branching coarse and more or less tomentose herbs. 

 Flowers purplish, in axillary whorls, or in lax-flowered branching 

 panicled cymes. Calyx ovoid or tubular, straight, limb equally 5- 

 toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube short, annulate within ; upper lip 

 short, erect, entire ; lower broad, spreading, 3-lobed ; midlobe large, 2- 

 fid. Stamens didynamous, exserted, the lower pair longer ; anthers 

 of upper pair 2-celled, those of the lower pair 1 -celled, the cells trans- 

 verse and parallel. Disk equal. Ovary 4-partite ; style 2-fid., the 

 lobes equal, subulate. Nutlets ovoid, obtuse, dry, basal scar small. 

 Species about 8, from Trop. and Subtrop. Asia to N. Australia. 



A. ovata, E. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii, 264 ; Eoyle III. 301 ; F. B. I. 

 iv, 672; Watt E. V.; Collett Fl. Siml. 402; Prain Beng. PL 853 ; Cpoke 

 FL Bomb, ii, 461. A. ovata, VAB. mollissima Prain I.e.* Ajuga disticha, 

 Heyne ; Eoxb. FL Ind. Hi, 2. 



A suffruticose herb, 3-6 ft. high, sparingly hairy to densely pubescent 

 or almost woolly. Stems acutely 4-angled. Leaves H-3 in. long, ovate, 

 acute, crenate-serrate, thickly herbaceous, softly pubescent on both 

 sides, base truncate rounded or rarely cuneate, the margins entire ; pe- 

 tiols -H in. long, densely hairy. Whorls axillary, many-flowered, more 

 or less interrupted below, crowded above, the whole forming a dense spi- 

 cate inflorescence ; bracts |-^ in. long, linear, clothed with long stiff hairs. 

 Calyx subsessile, } in. long, enlargingUn fruit, hirsute ; teeth about as 

 long as the tube, lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Corolla in. long ; upper lip 

 pale-purple, in. long, oblong, rounded; lower lip deep-blue, much longer, 

 the midlobe deeply 2-fid. Filaments bearded. Nutlets ^ in. long, smooth 

 shining and black when ripe. 



Very common within the area. Flowers after the rainy season. 

 DISTRIB. Throughout India and in Ceylon, ascending to 5,000 ft. on the 

 Himalaya, extending to the Malay Peninsula and Islands to China and 

 the Philippines. The form with densely woolly pubesceiice (A moUis- 

 sima, Wall.) and regarded by Prain as deserving varietal rank is abund- 

 ant within our area. The whole plant has a strong scent resembling 

 camphor. 



14. SCUTELLARIA, Linn ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv ; 667. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Inflorescence various. Calyx campanulate, 

 2-lipped, lips closing after flowering ; upper lip deciduous, furnished 



