SALYIA.] LABIATE. y 25? 



More seabrid and villous than the type. Leaves very rigid and rugose, 

 Calyx longer, villous with long hairs. In the drier western portions of 

 the area from Delhi to Bundelkhand and Merwara. Flowers Nov. -Jan. 

 DISTUIB. Puiijab plain and Salt range up to 2,500 ft., Sind, Gujarat and 

 Deccan ; also in Afghanistan and Baluchistan. 



8. coccinea, Juss. A slender herb up to 3 ft. high with handsome scarlet 

 flowers. It is often grown in the gardens of N. India, And is a native 

 of C. and S. America. 



8. officinalis, Linn. (Common Sage) is a native of S. Europe. It is some- 

 times cultivated in gardens within the area. 



22. MOSLA, Buck-Ham. ; PL, Brit. Ind. iv, 646. 



Annual fragrant herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers very minute ; 

 whorls 2-ilowered, arranged in terminal and axillary seeund racemes ; 

 bracts very small, or the lower leaf -like. Calyx campanulate, 5- 

 tpothed, enlarged in fruit, subequal or 2-lipped, base gibbous ; upper 

 lip truncate or 3-toothed, lower of 2 longer teeth, throat closed with 

 hairs. Corolla-tube naked or with a ring of hairs ; lips short upper 

 notched, lower 3-fid. Stamens 2, posticous, short, erect, distant ; 

 anther-cells 2, divaricate, staminodes 2. Disk a large posticous 



fland. Nutlets globose, smooth or reticulate. Species 7 or 8, in 

 ndia, Burma and China. 



M, ocymoides, Buch.-Ham. ex. Benin, in Wall. PL As. Ear. i, 66. 

 M. dianthera, Maxim. ; F. B. I. iv, 647. Hedeoma nepalensis, Benth. ; 

 Decne. in Jacquem. Voy Bot. 183, t. J3S. Lycopus dianthera, Buch.- 

 Ham.; Roxb. Fl> Ind. i, 144. 



A slender erect sparsely pubescent herb, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves stalked, 

 1-1| in. long, ovate, acute, serrate, petioles - in. long. Racemes termin- 

 ating the branches, slender, lax-flowered. Calyx (in fruit) in. long, 

 hemispherical. Corolla white or purplish, 5 in. long, tube short. 

 Nutlets reticulate. 



Dehra Dun, on the Nagsidh Hill at about 2,000 ft. (Gamble) DISTRIB. 

 Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 6,000 ft., and on the Khasia 

 Mts., extending to Burma and China. 



23. TEUCRIUM, Linn.; PI. Brit. Ind. iv, 700. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire serrate or lobed, floral leaves often 

 bract-like. Whorls 2-6 -flowered, arranged in axillary or terminal 

 spikes racemes or heads. Calyx 10-nervel; teeth 5, equal or the 

 uppermost larger. Coroll i apparently 1-Hpped, tube not annulate 

 within, limb slit behind, the 2 upper and the lateral lobes cuneate 



