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Plants of the Punjab, 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens four. 



Outer pair of stamens longest. 



Stachys floccosa, 

 Woundwort, 



Labiat^e. 



F. B. I. iv. 675. 



Himalaj^a, 



5-6,000 ft. 



Kashmir 



(Jacquemont). 



large, stout, densely covered with white wool, 

 stem 4-angled ; leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, heart-shaped, shortly pointed, round-toothed, 

 thick, velvety above, stalk |-1 in., very thick ; flowers 

 |-f in., pink, spotted with purple, sessile, crowded in axil- 

 lary woolly clusters and in terminal spikes with inter- 

 spaces, bracts as long as the calyx, calyx I in., bell-shaped, 

 10-nerved, teeth 5, points triangular, spinous, coloured 

 pink, corolla 2-lipped, woolly, upper lip erect, lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed, mid-lobe largest, tube shortly pro- 

 jecting out of the calyx, stamens 4, ascending, style-lobes 

 nearly equal ; nutlets 4, ovoid, smooth. 



Stachys sericea, very like the last species, only less woolly, and some- 



Labiat^. times unbranched. 



F. B. I. iv. 675. 



Himalaya, 



6-9,000 ft. 



Simla, Mashobra 



(CoUett). 



Murree (Douie). 



Stachys melissaefolia, very like the last species, only more slender, less 



Labiate. hairy, silky and leafy, calyx is shorter, as broad as 



F. B. I. iv. 675. long, teeth triangular with a thickened tip not ending in 



Himalaya, a spine. 



8-10,000 ft. 



Stachys palustris. 

 Marsh betony. 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 676. 



Himalaya, 



5-6,000 ft. 



Kashmir (Thomson) . 



medium size, perennial, stem 4-angled, bristly vdth 

 reversed hairs, leaves 3-4 by |-1 in., narrowly oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, sessile, floral 

 leaves longer than the calyx, flowers small, pink in 6* 

 flowered circular clusters, |-1 in. diam., at intervals, never 

 spicate, bracts minute, calyx ^ in., hairy, teeth lanceo- 

 late, tips spinescent, corolla tube not projecting beyond 

 the calyx, nutlets broadly ovoid, broader towards the 

 top, nearly smooth ; otherwise hke the last species. 



