386 ON SEEDLINGS 



Cotyledons rotund-cordate, obtuse, entire, rather deeply auricled 

 at the base, petiolate, rather densely glandular-pubescent on both 

 surfaces, dull opaque green or slightly 

 hoary with a few alternate incurved 

 nerves seen with difficulty even by trans- 

 mitted light ; lamina 3' 5-5 mm. long, 

 2-5-5 mm. wide ; petiole semiterete, 

 grooved above, densely glandular-pube- 

 scent, pale green, 4'5-6'5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, densely 

 glandular - pubescent, obtusely quad- 

 rangular ; 1st internode 1 mm. long. 



Leaves simple, cauline, opposite, 

 exstipulate, petiolate, alternately, as- 

 cendingly incurvinerved, densely glan- 

 dular-pubescent on both surfaces, dull 

 green or somewhat hoary ; petiole 

 semiterete, channelled above, densely 

 glandular-pubescent, pale green. 

 FIG. 5u.-Ne P eta nuda, x 2. Fm* P^ rotund-obtuse, unequally 



crenate suddenly narrowed into the 

 petiole, almost truncate, few-nerved. 



Nepeta Grlechoma, Benth. 



Hypocotyl succulent, pubescent, pale green, about 4 mm. above 

 ground. 



Cotyledons reniform, emarginate, pale green, somewhat fleshy, 

 pubescent, 5*25 mm. long, 6'75 mm. wide ; petiole 5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, ultimately procumbent, throwing out 

 prostrate branches from the axils of the cotyledons, square, pubescent 

 with a few coarse interpetiolar hairs at the nodes ; 1st internode 

 1 mm. long ; 2nd 1-5 mm. ; 3rd 2 mm. Flowering stems short, 

 erect. 



Leaves densely pubescent on both surfaces and thinly covered 

 with coarse jointed hairs, deep green above, paler beneath ; petioles 

 channelled above, pale green, densely pubescent with short decurved 

 hairs intermixed with a few scattered long ones. 



First parr reniform, crenate, seven-toothed. 



Second pair rotund-cordate, crenate, nine-toothed, five-nerved 

 at the base with a few alternate ascending nerves on the upper 

 half. 



Ultimate leaves reniform or broadly cordate with a deep basal 

 sinus, and rounded more or less open or overlapping auricles, crenate, 



