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Mouth of calyx glabrous within, whorls 

 both axillary and terminal : 



Perennial, hispidly hairy ; bracts 

 few, subulate, mouth of calyx wide 2. L. hyssopifolia. 



Annual, mouth of calyx contracted : 



Calyx smooth below ; bracts long, 

 linear, filiform . . . .3. L. aspera. 



Calyx smooth throughout ; bracts 

 few, short . . . . 4. L. linifolia. 



Mouth of calyx hairy within ; whorls 

 terminal, veiy large, subglobose ; 

 bracts many, large, awned . . . 5. L. Cephalotes. 



Calyx-teeth long and slender . . . 6. L. nutans. 



Calyx-mouth straight or nearly so : 



Whorls many-flowered, flowers almost ses- 

 sile, leaves and calyx more or less pubes- 

 cent : 



Hairs on the stem and branches erect or 

 spreading, not deflexed . . . 7. L, lanata. 



Hairs on the stem and branches deflexed S. L. mollissima. 



Whorls 1-2-flowered. flowers pedicelled, 



leaves and calyx subglabrous . . . 9> L. procumbens. 



1. L. urticaefolia, E. Br. Prod. 504; Eoyle III. 301 ; F. B. I. iv, 680 ; 



Prain Beng. PL 855 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 464. Phlomis urticsefolia, Vahl ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 11. 



A tomentose or hairy annual, 6-18 in. high. Stems bluntly 4-angled, finely 

 pubescent. Leaves rather thin, lf-3 in. long, ovate, acute, coarsely 

 serrate, acute or rounded at the base, petioles ^-1 in. long. Flowers in 

 dense distant globose whorls up to 1 in. in diam. ; bracts shortly stalked, 

 f in. long, narrowly lanceolate, aristate, ciliate, distinctly veined. Calyx 

 |-| in., cylindric, pubescent or villous ; mouth very oblique, about 10- 

 toothed ; upper lip very small, with minute spinescent teeth ; lower lip 

 much prolonged, truncate, membranous and reticulate-veined, the 3 

 lowest teeth the largest. Corolla white ; tube in. long, not annulate 

 within, upper lip villous outside, midlobe of lower lip 2-fid. Nutlets -^ 

 in. long, obovoid-oblong, 3-gonous, glandular on the obliquely truncate 

 apex, brown when ripe. 



Merwara, Bundelkhand and in the districts of Agra and Delhi, extending 

 eastwards to Patna (Madden). DISTBIB. Punjab Plain, W. Behar, 

 Sind, Gujarat, Deccan and southwards to the Nilgiris, extending to 

 Baluchistan, Arabia and Abyssinia. 



