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6. STELLATA, Benth. in Wall. PL As. rar. i, p 30. Stem 

 creeping ; branches erect ; leaves verticelled, 6 to 8 together, narrow- 

 linear, almost equal to the internodes, quite entire ; floral ones 

 subulate ; calyx villous ; the segments erect, rather acute, nearly 

 allied to D tomentosa, but distinct. About Belgaum, Law; at 

 Banda, in rice fields. Syn. Mentha quaternifolia, Roth. nov. sp. 

 p 256 (?). 



12. COLEBROOKIA, Smith. 



1. TERNIFOLIA, Roxb. PI Cor. iii, p 40, t. 245. A small shrub ; 

 leaves oblong-elliptic, narrow at both ends, serrulate, softly pubescent 

 above, tomentose beneath, with the branches and spikes verticelled 

 in threes ; flowers very minute, white ; the spikes very dense. On the 

 Ghauts, very common. Scarcely differs from C oppositifolia of 

 Sm. Exot. Bot. ii, p 111. A native of Nepaul. 



13. MICROMERIA, Benth. 



1. MALCOLMIANA, Dalz. Mss. Herbaceous; branches elongated, 

 simple, slender, villous; leaves small, shortly-petioled, ovate-obtuse, 

 crenated, pubescent on both sides; verticels of flowers distant, 

 dichotomously cymose, peduncled, few-flowered, contracted into 

 a kind of umbel ; flowers minute. On the banks of the Yeena, 

 Mahableshwur. In its aromatic and carminative qualities, it rivals 

 the Peppermint. Syn. Marrubium malcolmianum, Dalz. in Hook. 

 Jour. Bot iv, p 109. 



14. NEPETA, Linn. 



1. N BOMBAIENSIS, Dalz. Branched, 1 foot high; stem quad- 

 rangular, pubescent ; leaves long-petioled, softly villous on both 

 sides, cordate, ovate-obtuse, crenated ; flowers axillary, peduncled ; 

 peduncle as long as the petiole, with about 5 pedicelled flowers, 

 subtended by a pair of lanceolate-acute bracts ; calyx pilose, deeply 

 ribbed, upper lip much longer than the lower, of 3 acute ciliate 

 teeth ; lower of 2 subulate teeth, increasing with the fruit ; corol 

 small, pale-blue, with purple spots. Allied to N graciliflora, Benth. 

 Old walls and rocks on Sewnere Fort ; flowering in July and August. 



15. SALVIA, Linn. 



1. PLEBEIA, Br. Prod. 501. Stem herbaceous, erect-branched, 

 pubescent ; leaves petioled, oblong, wrinkled ; verticels lax, about 

 6-flowered, racemose; racemes paniculate; calyx campanulate; 

 upper lip quite entire ; teeth of the lower lip obtuse ; corolla scarcely 

 longer than the calyx. At Kandalla and Island of Caranjah. 

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