MACLOSKIE : LABIATE. 695 



ascend under the upper lip. Anther-lobes ultimately X-shaped. A low 

 shrub with ovate, entire, 3 -nerved leaves. 3. Cruzia, p. 696. 



e2. Calyx tubular-campanulate or with wide border and somewhat funnelform, with 

 5 triangular teeth, rarely 2-lipped. Corolla-tube mostly included. Upper 

 corolla-lip concave or helmet-shaped, rarely flat. Style branches subequal. 

 Pollen-sacs parallel, spreading. Nutlets ovoid, apically rounded. 



4. Stachys, p. 696. 



d2. Corolla 2-lipped or almost regular, its lobes flat. Upper lip, if present, flat or 

 slightly concave. Anthers ovoid, the pollen-sacs diverging. Calyx 10-13, 

 rarely 15-nerved, the teeth not attenuate-awned. Stamens ascending under the 

 upper lip. 



e. Fertile stamens 2 (the anterior pair) ; the others none or reduced. Lower calyx- 

 teeth not exceeding the upper. Styles naked. 5. Hedeoma, p. 697. 

 e2. Fertile stamens 4. Calyx lo-nerved, cylindrical, or slightly flat upwards. 

 Lower calyx-teeth at least as long as the upper. Corolla-tube straight or 

 slightly curved, included or exsert. Calyx not elongated in fruit. 



6. Satureia, p. 697. 



b2. Filaments descending, lying on or enclosed by the under lip. Anterior lobes of the 

 corolla scarcely longer, but narrower than the posterior, flat, or slightly concave. 

 Ripe calyx enlarged. Corolla-tube included or nearly so. Filaments of anterior 

 stamens free. Style sagittately 2-cleft. 7. Ocimum, p. 698. 



i. SCUTELLARIA Linn. Skullcap. (Plate XXIV, A.) 



Herbs or undershrubs, with gibbous, 2-lipped calyx, whose upper lip 

 has a crest, or protuberance on its back, and is often deciduous in fruit. 

 Corolla much exserted. Stamens 4 ; the upper with 2-celled anthers, the 

 lower with i-celled. 



Species 100, widely distributed. 



S. NUMMULARIyEFOLIA Hook. f. 



Small, glandular-puberulent or densely pubescent. Stems 9 cm. high, 

 slender, ascending. Leaves small (6 by 4 mm.), broad, elliptical-oblong 

 to rotundate, obtuse, entire, narrowing to a short petiole. Floral leaves 

 like the others. Corolla thrice as long as the calyx. 



S. Patagon., by Hatcher, at Rio Sta. Cruz ; Nordenskjold in Valley of 

 Rio Gallegos ; Dusen in N. and E. Fuegia. Not in S. Fuegia ; a steppe- 

 plant, most characteristic of Patagon. (Dusen). 



2. MARRUBIUM Linn. 



Perennial herbs, with wrinkled, toothed or incised leaves, the floral 

 leaves similar, and small flowers in axillary verticillasters. Calyx costate, 



