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Plants of the Punjab. 



Peostrate Herbs with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Lamium 



amplexicauie, 



Henbit, 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 679. 



The Plains to 



2,000 ft. to the 



Himalaya at 



10,000 ft. 



Simla on borders of 



fields (CoUett). 



Baluchistan (Lace). 



small, annual, hairy or nearly smooth, branched from 

 the base, bending up from a prostrate base ; leaves |-| in., 

 circular, deeply round-toothed, lower long-stalked ; flowers 

 |-f in., purple-red in axillary circles, lower circles distant, 

 uppermost often crowded in leafy head, floral leaves sessile, 

 broader than long, calyx small, bell-shaped, velvety, teeth 

 5, as long as the tube, converging in fruit, corolla | in. 

 or less, very slender, straight, velvety, tube slender at 

 the base, much wider at the mouth, longer than the calyx, 

 2-hpped, upper Hp erect, arching, hood-like, lower Up 

 spreading, lateral lobes absent, middobe circular, notched 

 or 2-lobed, abruptly contracted at the base, stamens 4, 

 in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper lip, outer 

 pair longest ; nutlets 3-angled, scaly. 



Lamium album, 

 White dead nettle, 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 679. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-10,000 ft. 

 Simla on roadsides 

 (CoUet ). 

 Murree (Douie). 

 Kashmir. 



like the last species, but perennial, rootstock creeping 

 with runners, leaves larger, 1-3 in., ovate-heart-shaped, 

 round or sharp-toothed, floral stalked, calyx teeth longer 

 than the tube, teeth long, awl-shaped, spreading in fruit, 

 flowers larger, f-1 in., white or pale pink, lateral lobes of 

 corolla present, narrow, reflexed, corolla tube curved, 

 nutlets naked. 



Teuerium 

 Royleanum, 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 700. 



Himalaya, 



3-6,000 "ft, 



Mahasu (Collett). 



Kashmir. 



small, perennial, stem prostrate, rooting below, then 

 rising, 12-18 in. with runners, velvety, felted or woolly ; 

 leaves l|-3 in., OA^ate or oblong-ovate, heart-shaped, short- 

 pointed, toothed, stalk |-1 in., slender ; flower-; ^-^ in., 

 white or yellow, white in 2-flowered clusters forming ter- 

 minal racemes 2-3 in., bracts lanceolate, longer than the 

 minor flower stalks, calyx i m., bell-shaped, woolly, teeth 5, 

 upper tooth broad-roundid, short-pointed, 2 lower lance- 

 olate, long-pointed, lateral shorter, corolla one-lipped, 

 lower lip 5-lobed, long, spreading, lateral lobes tooth-like, 

 terminal lobe broad, concave, tube twice the 1 ngth of the 

 calyx, stamens 4, in unequal pair=<, outer pair longest, pro- 

 truding from the back of the corolla mouth ; nutlets 4, 

 mmute, netted, almost wrinkled, enclosed in the calyx 

 teeth. 



