Plants of the Punjab. 



216 



Herbs, Erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals united. 



Corolla two-lipped. 



Stamens four. 



Outer pair op stamens longest. 



large, annual, aromatic, stout, hairy, hairs spreading, 

 leaves 2-4 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, short-pointed, 

 shortly stalked, round- and sharp-toothed, flowers in very 

 large terminal round clusters, 1-2 in. diam., surrounded by 

 membranous overlapping linear lanceolate bracts, bristle - 

 pointed, unlike those of any other species, calyx f in., 

 tubular, slightly curved, velvety, teeth short, awl-shaped, 

 not longer than the hairs of the mouth ; otherwise like 

 the last species. This plant is used locally as a stimulant 

 and diaphoretic, milk is stirred up with it to improve the 

 flavour', the flowers aru sacred ta Siva. 



Leucas Cephalotes, 



Dhurpi sag, phuman, 



guldoda, chatra. 



Labiate. 



F. B. L iv. 689. 



The Plains to 



6,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(CoUett). . 



Leucas aspera, 



see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 

 Entire. 



Leonotis nepetsefolia, 



Labiatze. 

 p. B. Liv. 691. 

 The Plains. 

 Berara, Ambala 

 District. 



large, annual, stem 1 in. diam., 4-angled, groov- 

 ed, minutely velvety ; leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in., ovate, round- 

 toothed, thin, stalk 1-3 in., winged above, slender, floral 

 leaves lanceolate, sharply bent down ; flowers 1 in. long, 

 orange, in densely many-flovv^ered globular clusters 2-3 in. 

 diam. round the stem, like the head of a drum stick, at 

 some distance apart, prickly from the spinescent bracts, 

 bracteoles many, slender, calyx | in. long, ribbed, netted, 

 velvety or woolly, tubular, turned in, mouth oblique, 

 teeth 8-10, spines, upper | in. long, lower with 3 recurved 

 spinescent teeth, corolla tube slender, projecting beyond 

 the calyx, 2-lipped, upper lip long, concave, crown woolly, 

 lower minute, spreading, concave, mid- lobe largest, sta- 

 mens 4, in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper hp, 

 style awl-shaped, 2-lobed, upper lobe very short ; nut- 

 lets 4, sharply 3-angled, Hnear-oblong, widening upwards, 

 cut ok short. 



