LABIATE. LXXVIII. LEOXCRCS. LXXIX. AXISOMELES. 



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Native of the Altaia, plentiful. Ledeb. fl. ross. all. ill. t. 179. 

 Habit of L. Sibiricus, with the flowers of L. Cardiaca. Leaves 

 ample, deeply toothed ; floral leaves much narrower, and more 

 deeply cut than in L. Cardiaca. 

 Glaucescent Motherwort. PI. 



5 L. TATA'RICLS (Lin. spec. p. 818.) glabrous or pubescent 

 at top ; cauline leaves palmately parted, cut ; floral leaves sub- 

 trifid : lobes of all, as well as the upper leaves, lanceolate-linear 

 or linear ; calyxes glabrous or villous. $ . H. Native of-Tar- 

 tary, Lin. ; Siberia, about the Kolyvan, Patrin ; Altaia, fre- 

 quent, Ledeb. Rchb. icon. bot. eur. 4. p. 31. t. 338. L. 

 Altaicus, Spreng. syst. 2. p. 738. L. multifidus, Desf. hort. 

 par. Mill. fig. 53. t. 80. Nearly allied to L. glaucescens, but 

 more slender, more humble, and the leaves more finely cut, and 

 the flowers smaller. 



Tartarian Motherwort. Fl. Aug. Oct. Clt. 1756. PI. 2 

 to 3 feet. 



SECT. II. CHAITU'RUS (from x ain /> chaite, a head of hair, 

 and ovpa, oura, a tail ; in reference to the close whorls of flowers.) 

 Benth. lab. p. 520. Chaiturns, Moench. meth. p. 401. Tube 

 of corolla straight, naked inside : upper lip a little arched : lower 

 lip erectish, with nearly equal lobes, the middle lobe almost en- 

 tire. Stamens scarcely longer than the tube ; cells of anthers 

 diverging. Flowers minute. 



6 L. MARRUBIA'STRUM (Lin. spec. 817.) branches elongated, 

 pubescent ; leaves oblong-ovate, somewhat deeply toothed, nar- 

 rowed at both ends ; calyxes nearly glabrous ; corollas shorter 

 than the calycine teeth. . H. Native of Europe, especially 

 in die East, and Asiatic Russia, among bushes, and in waste 

 places ; as of France, Germany, Piedmont, Hungary, Caucasus, 

 Siberia. Jacq. fl. austr. 5. p. 3. t. 405. Chaiturus leonuroides, 

 Wflld.fl. beroL p. 201. Chaiturus mamibiastrum, Ehrh. Car- 

 diaca marrubiastrum, Schreb. Bocc. mus. 2. t. 98. Leaves pe- 

 tiolate, 1 to H inch long, glabrous and green above, pale and ca- 

 nescent beneath, and tomentosely pubescent. Whorls dense, many- 

 flowered, numerous, distant. Calycine teeth subulate, spiny, 

 diverging. Corollas small, white, or pale red, smoothish. 



Hore hound-like Motherwort. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1710. PI. 

 1 to 3 feet. 



SECT. III. PAXZE'RIA (named after G. Wolf. Fr. Panzer, of 

 Nuremberg, author of several botanical works.) Benth. lab. p. 

 520. Panzeria, Mcench. meth. p. 402. Tube of corolla straight, 

 naked inside. Upper lip arched ; lower lip straightish, or with 

 the middle lobe spreading a little, obcordate or bifid. Stamens 

 exserted from the tube. 



7 L. SIBI'RICUS (Lin. spec. p. 818.) erect, tall, glabrous or 

 finely pubescent ; leaves pinnately or palmately parted, a little 

 cut : upper floral leaves almost quite entire ; calyxes glabrous or 

 clothed with fine tomentum. $ . H. Native of Asia, Africa, 

 and America, as of India, China, and Japan, Timor, Senegambia, 

 Cuba, Demerara, St. Thomas, Trinidad, Brazil, &c. Rchb. icon, 

 bot. eur. 4. p. 30. t. 337. Smith, exot. bot. 2. p. 67. t. 94. 

 Sweet, fl. gard. 3. t. 204. L. Tataricus, Burm. fl. ind. 127. but 

 not of Lin. L. occidentalis, Hortul. L. heterophy'llus, Sweet, 

 brit. fl. gard. 2. t. 197. L. occidentalis, Colla, in mem. acad. 

 taur. vol. 53. p. 154. L. altissimus, Bunge, nov. gen. et spec, 

 chin. bot. ined. L. multifidus, Desf. Panzeria multifida, Mcench. 

 meth. suppl. p. 137. Panzeria tripartita, Mcench. meth. p. 402. ? 

 Stachys Artemisiae, Lour. coch. p. 363. Amm. ruth. no. 60. t. 

 8. ? Branches usually canescent, at length glabrous and green. 

 Leaves cut to the middle of the limb ; cauline leaves usually 

 tripartite ; all green and glabrous above, but pale beneath, and 

 pubescent while young. Lower whorls remote ; upper ones ap- 

 proximate. Corollas red. 



Siberian Motherwort. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1759. PI. 2 to 

 6 feet. 



8 L. LANA'TOS (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 738.) plant humble, clothed 

 with white wool or villi ; leaves all palmate-parted or palmati- 

 fid ; corolla elongated. }/ . or $ . H. Native of Siberia, in 

 dry, sterile places, between the river Kan and Jebegan ; and at 

 the rivers Katunga and Tschuja, and near Slimon, Ledeb. ; Dahu- 

 ria, Patrin. Rchb. icon. bot. eur. 8. p. 15. t. 736. Ballota 

 lanata, Lin. spec. 816. Panzeria lanata, Pers. ench. 2. p. 126. 

 Panzeria tomentosa, Mcench. meth. 402. Gmel. sib. 3. t. 54. 

 Stems rising from a thick rather woody base. Whorls dense, 

 many-flowered, approximate. Corolla more than an inch long, 

 yellowish. 



Woolly Motherwort. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1752. PI. 1 to 

 2 feet. 



f Species not sufficiently knoien. 



9 L. JAVA'NICDS (Blum, bijdr. p. 828.) leaves ovate-oblong, 

 unequally toothed ; calyxes strigosely pubescent ; calycine teeth 

 acuminated, spreading ; upper lip of corolla concave, emargi- 

 nate : middle segment of the lower lip roundish, crenulated : 

 lateral ones acutish. $ . H. Native of the west of Java, in 

 shady mountain places. 



Jaca Motherwort. PI. ? 



10 L. OBLONGIFOLIUS (Blum, bijdr. p. 828.) leaves oblong, 

 acuminated, unequally denticulated ; calyxes very pilose ; caly- 

 cine teeth subulate ; middle segment of the lower lip of the co- 

 rolla roundish, crenulated : lateral ones acute. (7 . ? H. Native 

 of Java, on the Salak mountains, on the banks of the river 

 Tjapus. 



Oblong-leaved Motherwort. PI. ? 



Cult. None of the species are very ornamental ; and being 

 generally biennial plants, the seeds of them only require to be 

 sown in the open ground. L. lanata should be grown in a dry 

 sandy soil, or on rockwork. 



LXXIX. ANISO'MELES (from avuros, anisos, unequal, 

 and fuXoe, melos, a member ; in reference to the anthers of the 

 longer stamens being dimidiate or halved.) R. Br. prod. p. 503. 

 Benth. lab. p. 701. A'juga species, Roxb. Nepeta and Ballota 

 species, Lin. 



Lix. SYST. Didynamia, Gymnospermia. Calyx ovate, tubu- 

 lar, erectish, 5-toothed. Corolla having the tube equalling the 

 calyx, and furnished with a pilose ring inside, and a bilabiate 

 limb ; upper lip erect, oblong, entire ; lower lip larger, spread- 

 ing : lateral lobes ovate, obtuse, the middle lobe emarginately 

 sub-bifid. Stamens 4, ascending, exserted, the lower 2 the long- 

 est ; anthers approximating by pairs, those of the longer stamens 

 dimidiate, and those of the shorter ones 2-celled : the cells paral- 

 lel and transverse. Style almost equally bifid at top. Achenia 

 dry, smooth. Herbs and sub-shrubs, with the habit of Stachys, 

 sect. Eriosiachys. Whorls sometimes densely many-flowered, 

 racemose ; sometimes very loose ; constantly composed of 

 cymes on long peduncles ; sometimes axillary and few-flowered. 

 Flowers purplish. 



1 A. MOSCHA'TA (R. Br. prod. p. 503.) leaves elliptic, and 

 are, as well as the stem, clothed with cinereous pubescence ; 

 whorls few-flowered ; calyx greyish -green, glanduliferous. ^ . 

 S. Native of tropical New Holland. Corollas red or purplish. 



Musky Anisomeles. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1824. Shrub 2 to 

 3 feet. 



2 A. INODORA (R. Br. prod. p. 503.) leaves elliptic, nearly 

 glabrous, dotted beneath ; whorls remote ; calyxes green, glan- 

 duliferous. ij . ? S. Native of tropical New Holland. 



