246 LABIATE. [ SCUTELL ABIA 



on the back with a large deciduous shield or pouch (the posterior 

 calyx-lobe), lower lip persistent. Corolla 2- lipped ; tube long, usually 

 sharply recurved beyond the calyx and then ascending, dilated at 

 the throat, not annulate within ; upper lip erect, galeate, entire or 

 notched ; lower broad, 3-lobed. Stamens didynamous ; the lower pair 

 longer, ascending under the galeate upper lip ; anthers conniving, 

 ciliate ; those of the upper stamens 2-celled, of the lower 1-celled. 

 Disk elongate. Ovary 4-partite, oblique; style 2-fid., the upper lobe 

 very short. Nutlets 4, very minute, smooth, granulate or hispidu- 

 lous. Species about 90, in northern temperate regions, and on 

 mountains in the tropics, abundant on the Andes. 



S. repens, Buch.-Ham. exD. Don Prod. 110 ; F. B. I. iv, 669; Collett 

 Fl. Siml. 400. 



A diffuse pubescent or tomentose herb with long rather stout 4-angled 

 curved brittle stems ; branches crowded, ascending. Leaves stalked, 

 i-1^ in. iong, ovate, acute, the^ower ones usually crenate-serrate, upper 

 entire ; base acuta or truncate, rarely subcordate, petioles i-l-in. long. 

 Floiuers - in. long, arranged in curved glandular-hairy racemes fi-10 in. 

 long ; bracts -1 in. long, ovate, longer than the pedicel and calyx, but 

 hardly leaf-like. Corolla dull-yellow with usually a tinge of purple, 

 sharply recurved. Nutlets subgranulate. 



In the Sub-Himalayan tract of the Gonda district in N. Oudh. DISTRIB. 

 Himalaya from Kashmir to Sikkim up to 6,000 ft., usually amongst loose 

 stones, extending to Ava. 



15, LEONURUS, Linn.; PI. Brit. Ind. iv, 677. 



Erect stout leafy herbs. Leaves lobed. Flowers small, in dense- 

 flowered distant axillary whorls. Calyx 5 -nerved, turbinate; teeth 

 5, spreading, spinescent. Corolla 2-lipped, tube naked or annulate 

 .within ; upper lip entire, erect ; lower 3-fid., midlobe obcordate. Sta- 

 mens didynamous, the lower pair the longest, filaments ascending, 

 anthers conniving, cells transverse. Disk uniform. Ovary 4-partite, 

 style 2-fid.; lobes equal, obtuse or subulate. Fruit of 4 triquetrous 

 smooth dry nutlets, truncate at the apex, basal scar small. Species 10, 

 in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 



L. sibiricus, Linn. Sp. PL 5S4 ; F. B. I. iv, 673 ; Prain Beng. PI. 

 854 ; Coolte Fl. Bomb, ii, 463. 



An annual, 2-6 ft. high, glabrous or more 01 less pubescent. Stems 

 bluntly 4-angled, sulcate. Leaves 1^-4 in. long, palmatipartite ; seg- 

 ments linear, incised, glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, pale 

 beneath and more or less pubescent on the prominent nerves, petioles 



