Plants of the Punjab. 



87 



Shrubs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Clerodendron 

 infortunatum, 



Bhant. 



Verbenace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 591 



The Plains to 

 1.000 ft. 



medium size, bark with large raised corky excre- 

 scenses, odour fetid ; leaves 4-8 by 3-5 in., broadly ovate, 

 hairy above, woolly or thinly hairy below, sometimes with 

 sticky glands, slightly toothed ; flowers white, tinged with 

 red, in branching terminal racemes, 6-12 by 4-8 in., erect, 

 sometimes leafy, upper part and calyces turning red, hairy, 

 corolla tube nearly 1 in. long, cylindric, doubtfully 2- 

 lipped, lobes ^-| in. long, acute, stamens 4, much exceed- 

 ing the lobes, style bifid ; drupes I in. diam., black, suc- 

 culent, enclosed in the enlarged bright red leathery calyx. 

 The leaves are used as a febrifuge in Indian medicine. 



Plectranihiis 

 lugosus, 



Pisumar, sold. 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 620. 



Himalaya, 



3-8,000 ft. 



Simla (Collett). 



Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



small, hoary with stellate down, branches slender, 

 stiff, erect ; leaves 1-1| in. long, ovate or oblong, toothed, 

 bluntly tipped, velvety above, white woolly beneath ; 

 flowers white, spotted and streaked with purple, in clusteis 

 forming narrow leafy axillary or terminal racemes, calyx 

 woolly, I in. long, iDell-shaped, lengthened in fruit, teeth 

 short-pointed, nearly equal, 2-lipped, corolla ^ in., 2- 

 lipped, longer than the tube, lower Hp longest, boat-shaped, 

 stamens 4, in unequal pairs, lying along the lower lip , 

 style unequally divided ; nutlets 4, round or oblong, blunt. 

 As the vernacular name implies, this plant is used to keep 

 fleas away. 



Ocimum Basilieum, 



see Herbs, 

 Toothed. 



Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Ocimum sanctum, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Entire. 



Orthosiphon pallidus, see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Toothed. 



Thymus Serpyllum, 

 Thyme, 



Banajivain, maslto. 



Labiat.e. 



F. B. L iv. 649. 



Himalaya, 



5-13,000 ft. 



Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



small, slender, much branched, strongly scented, 

 stems usually somewhat procumbent ; leaves i-i in., 

 nearly sessile, gland-dotted, oblong, ovate, not toothed, 

 blunt ; flowers small, purple, in small clusters, crowded 

 in short terminal spikes, corolla 2-lipped, upper lip 

 almost erect, flat, notched, lower spreading, 3-lobed, 

 stamens 4, equal, protruding ; nutlets 4, nearly smooth. 

 This plant is used in Indian medicine for diseases of the 

 eyes and stomach. 



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