Plants of the Punjab. 



218 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulatb Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens four. 



Outer pair of stamens longest. 



medium size to large, rough with long stiff hairs, 

 rootstock growing along the ground, stem 4-angled, 

 leaves 2-4 in,, long-stalked, broadly ovate, heart-shaped, 

 toothed, softly hairy, floral leaves sessile, longer than 

 the calyx, flowers | in., pink, in glandular-hairy few- 

 flowered circular clusters, bracts minute, calyx ^ in., teeth 

 triangular, tips needle-like, corolla tube projecting from 

 the calyx, nutlets nearly round ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



medium size, perennial, densely covered with floc-^ 

 culent white wool, stem and branches very stout, near- 

 ly round, branched from the base, leaves 1-3 in., very 

 variable, smooth and shining or cottony above, oblong 

 or ovate or lanceolate, thick, sessile, upper leaves woolly 

 all over, flowers very small, pink or red-purple, in clusters, 

 separated, 2-4-flowered, calyx |-^ in., immersed in wool, 

 cupular, teeth short, incurved over the nutlets, corolla 

 lips very small, upper short, rounded, nutlets 2, | in. long, 

 grey, granulate, flat on one side, convex on the other ; 

 otherwise like the last species. The stems are crushed 

 and applied to the site of guinea worm. 



Stachys sylvatica. 

 Hedge Stachys, 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 676. 



Kashmir 



(Falconer). 



Stachys parviflora, 



Kirimar, haggi huti. 



Labiate. 



F. B. L iv. 677. 



The Plains to 



5,000 ft. 



Salt Range, 



Sakesar. 



Rawalpindi (Douie). 



Baluchistan (Lace). 



Leonurus Cardiaca, 



Lamium 

 rhomboideum, 



Labiate. 

 F.B. Liv. 678. 

 Himalaya, 

 12-15,000 ft. 

 In stony debris. 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



small, stem very stout, zigzag, densely felted ; 

 leaves lower small, upper 2-4 in. diam., crowded, almost 

 square, wrinkled, toothed, base suddenly contracted into 

 a very thick, short woolly stalk ; flowers 1^ in. long, pur- 

 plish in axillary, many-flowered, clusters or in leafy heads, 

 bracts awl-shaped, calyx 2 i^v woolly, teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 5-nerved, corolla 2-hpped, upper lip arched, lower spread- 

 ing, 3-lobcd, mid-lobe broad, contracted at the base, tube 

 straight, naked within, upper lip or hood broad, woolly, 

 lateral lobes ovate, undivided, stamens 4, ascending 

 under the upper lip, anthers hairy, style lobes awl-shaped ; 

 nutlets 4, sharply 3-cornered. 



