LABIAT^E 



389 



Eremostachys laciniata, Bung., var. pinnatisecta. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 2-4 mm. long, light green or 

 colourless. 



Cotyledons thick, fleshy, unequal, broadly oblong, emarginate, 

 obtuse, auricled at the base, petiolate, glabrous, indistinctly tri- 

 nerved, green. The emargination is due to after-growth, for the 

 cotyledons are entire at first. 



Primary internodes of the 

 stem undeveloped. 



First leaves radical, ovate, 

 obtusely crenate, covered with 

 hairs, light green, pinnatinerved ; 

 petiole long, hairy, channelled on 

 the upper side. 



Teucrium Botrys, L. (fig. 



595). 



Primary root tapering, long, 

 slender, colourless, with short 

 lateral fibres, annual. 



Hypocotyl subterranean, ter- 

 ete, glandular-pubescent, tapering 

 gradually into the root. 



Cotyledons rather fleshy, 

 glandular-pubescent, petiolate ; 

 lamina ovate-oblong, obtuse, sub- 

 mucronate, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide. 



Stem annual, short and erect 

 at first with very shortly developed 

 internodes, ultimately long arid 

 procumbent. 



Leaves simple, radical and cauline, opposite, decussate, exstipu- 

 late, petiolate, opaque green, densely glandular-pubescent on all 

 parts ; petioles channelled above, convex beneath, somewhat dilated 

 at the base ; nerves of leaf all sunk. 



First pair triangular, obtuse, nearly truncate at the base, rather 

 deeply crenate. 



Second pair triangular, obtuse, lobulate ; lobes entire, or basal 

 ones with a tooth on the posterior side. 



Third pair triangular, pinnatifid ; basal lobes unequally bifid or 

 trifid ; next pair of lobes tridentate. 



FIG. 595. Teucrium Botnjs. 

 Nat. size. 



