Plants of {he Punjab. 



211 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens four. 



Outer pair of stamens longest. 



large, leafy, stout, shortly woolly ; leaves |-1^ in. 

 diam., ovate or circular, toothed, wrinkled, stalk |-| in. ; 

 flowers I in., white, in circular axillary clusters, many- 

 and dense-flowered, woolly, calyx ^-J in., teeth 10, awl- 

 shaped, spreading and hooked, throat woolly, corolla 

 short, 2-lipped, upper lip erect, divided, lower spreading, 

 mid-lobe largest, stamens 4, enclosed in the corolla, style- 

 lobes short, blunt ; nutlets 4, blunt, smooth. This plant 

 is used in Europe by herbalists as a tonic. 



Marrubium vulgare, 

 White horehound, 



Labiate. 



F. B. Liv. 671. 



Himalaya. 



5-8,000 ft.' 



Kashmir (Falconer). 



Baluchistan 



(Boissier). 



Crantotome 

 versicolor, 



'Labiate. 

 F. B. Liv. 671. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size, perennial, softly hairy all over, stem 

 round, slender ; leaves 2-4 by 1-3 in., broadly ovate-heart- 

 shaped, long-pointed, sharp- or round-toothed, stalk 1-2 

 in., slender ; flowers i in., white, pink or yellow, numerous, 

 crowded in small stalked clusters forming narrow terminal 

 branched leafy racemes, bracts awl-shaped, calyx ,-V in., 

 ovoid, equally 5-toothed, teeth triangular, corolla tube 

 much longer than the calyx, 2-Hpped, upper lip very short, 

 erect, hood-Hke, lower longer, spreading, 3-lobed, mid- 

 lobe largest, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, ascending under 

 the upper lip, style nearly equally di\dded ; nutlets 4, 

 very minute, nearly round, shining. 



Anisomeles ovata. 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 672. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft 



large, annual, aromatic, hairy, or felted and densely 

 woolly ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate, round-toothed, long -pointed, 

 stalk |-1| in. ; flowers ^ in., white, mid-lobe of lower lip 

 purple, crowded in axillary clusters at intervals along 

 terminal spikes, bracts variable, calyx |-^ in., hairy, ovoid. 

 Valleys below Simla, teeth 5, lanceolate, long-pointed, corolla tube short, 2- 

 Sipi (Collett). lipped, upper lip short, erect, concave, entire, lower 3-lobed, 



spreading, mid-lobe much longer than the lateral, deeply 

 notched, stamens 4 in unequal pairs, protruding, style 

 nearly equally divided ; nutlets 4, broadly oblong, po- 

 lished. This plant is used in South India as a carminative, 

 astringent and tonic. 



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