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LABIATE. XCVII. MOT.UCELLA. XCVIII. HOLMSK:OLDIA. XCIX. HYMENOCRATER. C. ACHYROSPERMUM. 



spiny at top. Corollas yellow ; galea large, orbicular. The 

 upper parts of the stems, leaves, calyxes, and galea of corolla 

 clothed with very long loose white wool. 



Waliich's Eriophyturn. PI. 



Cult. For culture and propagation, see Phlomis, p. 854. 



XCVII. MOLUCE'LLA (a dim. from Molucca Islands, of 

 which one of the species was supposed to be a native.) Lin. gen. 

 no. 724. Schreb. gen. 979. Gaertn. fruct. 1. p. 320. t. 66. 

 Juss. gen. p. 115. Benth. lab. p. 639. Molucca, Tourn. 

 Mcench. Chasmonia, Presl. 



LIN. SYST. Didynamia, Gymnospermia. Calyx obliquely cam- 

 panulate at the base, striated ; limb ample, dilated, reticulately 

 veined, with 5-10 mucrones or spines. Corolla with an inclosed 

 tube, which is obliquely annulate inside ; limb bilabiate ; upper 

 lip erect, entire or emarginately bifid ; lateral lobes of lower lip 

 erectish ; middle lobe spreading broad, obcordate. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, ascending, lower ones the longest ; filaments naked 

 at the base ; anthers laterally pedicellate at the tops of the fila- 

 ments, 2 celled : cells almost distinct, divaricate. Style about 

 equally bifid at apex ; stigmas nearly terminal. Achenia dry, 

 acutely triquetrous, truncate at apex. Annual quite glabrous 

 herbs. Leaves petiolate, deeply crenated or cut ; floral leaves 

 similar to the cauline ones. Whorls axillary, many-flowered. 

 Brac;eas subulate, spinose. 



1 M. L^VIS (Lin. spec. 821.) limb of calyx large, membra- 

 naceous, subpentagonal, with 5 very short mucrones or teeth. 

 O- H. Native of Syria and Palestine. Sibth. et Smith, fl. 

 graec. 6. p. 53. t. 566. Sims, bot. mag. t. 1852. Molucca 

 lasVis. Riv. mon. t. 64. Moench, meth. p. 404. Sabb. hort. 

 rom. 3. t. 45. Plant quite glabrous in every part, smooth. Stem 

 a little branched, floriferous almost from the base. Leaves on 

 long petioles, roundish, coarsely crenated, rounded or cuneated 

 at the base. Whorls usually 6-flowered, distant. Corolla white, 

 shorter than the limb of the calyx, furnished with an almost 

 complete membranaceous not pilose ring inside the throat. 



Smooth Molucca Balm. Fl. July, Aug. CU. 1570. PI. 1 to 

 \\ foot. 



2 M. SPINOSA (Lin. spec. 821.) limb of calyx short, coria- 

 ceous, sub-bilabiate, with 8 spines. Q. H. Native of the region 

 of the Mediterranean ; as of Sicily, Naples, Palestine, Mount 

 Parnassus, &c. Sibth. et Smith, fl. graec. 6. p. 54. t. 567. Lam. 

 ill. t. 510. Sabb. hort. rom. 3. t. 46. Chasmonia incisa, Presl. 

 fl. sic. 37. Bot. reg. 1244. M. armata, Sieb. pi. exs. Molucca 

 spinosa, Moench, meth. p. 404. Habit of M. Ice^vis, but more 

 rigid. Leaves smaller, with mucronulate teeth. Inflorescence and 

 bracteas like those of M . Ife'vis. Corolla exceeding the calyx a 

 little, furnished with a pilose ring inside, cream-coloured. 



Spiny Molucca Balm. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1596. PI. 1J to 

 2 feet. 



Cult. The seeds of these plants should be reared on a hot-bed 

 early in autumn or spring ; and when the plants are of sufficient 

 size they should be planted in separate pots, and kept under 

 glass, until the middle of May, when they may be planted out of 

 doors in any warm dry situation, where they will flower and seed 

 freely ; for if the seeds are sown out in the open ground in 

 spring, the plants in this case come into flower so late that they 

 seldom, if ever, ripen seed. 



XCVIII. HOLMSKIO LDIA (named in memory of Theo- 

 dore Holmskiold ; author of Coriphaei clavarias Ramarias cotn- 

 plectentes, 1 vol. fol. ; Copenhagen, 1790, and other works.) 

 Retz, obs. 6. p. 31. Benth. lab. p. 642. Hastingia, Smith, 

 exot. bot. 2. t. 80. Platunium, Juss. ann. mus. 7. p. 76. 



LIN. SYST. Didynamia, Gymnospermia. Calyx with a very 



FIG. 87. 



short tube and a large subrotately campanulate, membranaceous, 

 veiny, almost entire limb. Corolla with an elongated, incurved 

 tube, which is naked inside, a subdilated throat, and a sub-bila- 

 biate limb ; upper lip bifid, with erectly spreading segments ; 

 lateral segments of the lower lip small, reflexed : middle one 

 ovate, spreading. Stamens 4, ascending, didynamous, lower ones 

 the longest and exserted ; upper filaments dilated a little at the 

 base ; anthers 2-celled : cells parallel. Style nearly entire, 

 or the upper lobe is very short, stigmatiferous at apex. Ovarium 

 bipartite, with deeply bifid, scarcely bipartite lobes. Achenia 

 rugose, rattier fleshy.? Shrub with the habit of Verbenacece. 

 Allied to Molucella by the calyx ; and to Melissinece in the co- 

 rolla ; and to the tribes Prasiece and Ajugoidece. 



\ H. SANGUI'NEA (Retz. 1. c.) ^ . S. Native of Hindostan 

 and Silhet, &c. Hastingia cocci- 

 nea, Smith, 1. c. Platunium ru- 

 brum, Juss. 1. c. Shrub with 

 divaricate, tetragonal, glabrous, 

 often tubercled branches. Leaves 

 petiolate, ovate, acuminated, 

 hardly toothed, somewhat trun- 

 cate at the base, 2-4 inches 

 long, glabrous, green on both 

 surfaces. Racemules axillary, 

 scarcely longer than the peti- 

 oles, constantly composed of a 

 few 2-4-flowered whorls. Calyx 

 red or blood coloured. Corolla 

 red. Genitals exserted. (fig. 87.) 



Bloody-ca]yx.ed Holmskiol- 

 dia. Fl. ? Clt. 1796. Shrub. 



Cult. Any light rich earth, or 

 a mixture of equal parts of loam, 



sand, and peat, will suit this shrub ; and young cuttings will be 

 readily rooted in the same kind of soil in heat, with a hand-glass 

 placed over them. 



XCIX. HYMENOCRATER (from i^", hymen, a mem- 

 brane; and Kparrip, kraler, a cup ; in allusion to the large mem- 

 branous calyx.) Fisch. et Meyer, ind. sem. hort. petrop. 1835. 

 p. 39. 



LIN. SYST. Didynamia, Gymnospermia. Calyx with a short 

 13-nerved tube, and a large membranous spreading 5-clcft limb ; 

 lobes ovate. Corolla with an exserted tube and a sub-bilabiate 

 limb ; upper lip bipartite ; lower lip tripartite, having the middle 

 segment large and emarginate. Stamens inclosed, didynamous, 

 ascending under the upper lip ; eel's of anthers divaricate. 

 Stigma bilabiate. Achenia dry, subovate, glabrous, tubercled. 

 This genus comes near to Roylea and HolmsMoldia, but differs 

 from the first in the quinquefid limb of the calyx, bipartite 

 upper lip of corolla, as well as in the divaricate cells of anthers ; 

 and from the latter in the spreading limb of calyx, exserted co- 

 rolla, bipartite upper lip and tubercled achenia ; and from Molu- 

 cella in the form of the corolla. 



1 H. BITUMINOSUS (Fisch. et Meyer, 1. c.) ^ . F. Native 

 of the North of Persia, on arid hills. A humble glabrous shrub, 

 having leaves much like those of Nepeta Pannonica, viscid, and 

 smelling of bitumen. Cymes axillary, 5-7-flowered, crowded, 

 furnished with oblong, almost quite entire floral leaves. Throat 

 of calyx closed by villi. Corollas violaceous, painted with white 

 lines. Achenia black. 



Bituminous Hymenocrater. Shrub humble. 



Cult. For culture and pro] agation, see Phlomis, p. 854. 



C. ACHYROSPE'RMUM (from a X vpov, achyron, chaff; and 

 a, sperma, a seed ; so called because the achenia are 



