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serrated ; verticels dense, subequal, many-flowered ; bracts linear, 

 hoary ; calyx elongated above ; mouth very oblique, lower teeth 

 very short, upper largest. A very common plant in cultivated 

 fields. Syn. Phlomis linifolia, Roth. nov. sp. p 260 ; P zeylanica, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 9 ; Leonurus indicus, Burm. Ind. p 127; 

 Herba admerationis, Rumph. Amb. vi, p 39 ; L lavandulaefolia, 

 Sm. in Rees Cycl. v. 20. 



9. L URTIC^EFOLIA, Br. Prod, p 504. Herbaceous, finely 

 tomentose and hoary ; verticels many-flowered, globose ; calyces 

 hairy membranaceous ; mouth oblique, lengthened below, split above; 

 teeth 8 to 10, very short, setaceous; verticels nearly 1 inch in 

 diameter, distant; leaves petioled, broadly ovate, coarsely serrate- 

 crenate, rounded or cuneate at the base ; flowers white. At Cam- 

 bay. Found also in Abyssinia and Arabia, also in the Punjaub. 



19. LEONOTIS, Br. 



1. NEPETJEFOLIA, Br. Prod. 504. Herbaceous, 6 feet high; 

 leaves membranaceous, ovate-crenate ; verticels large globular ; 

 teeth of calyx spinous, uppermost largest, ovate ; corolla orange- 

 coloured, about twice the length of the calyx. Common on heaps 

 of rubbish. Scarcely indigenous; supposed to be originally from 

 Africa. Syn. Phlomis nepetsefolia, Linn. sp. 820 ; P spinosa, Vand. 

 in Ro2m. Script. Hisp. p 81 (?) ; Leonurus globosus, Mcench. Meth. 

 p 400 ; L nepetaefolius, Mill. Diet. N. 2 ; Stachys mediterranea, 

 Veil. PI Plum, ii, t. 2. 



CVII. CHENOPODEACE^E. 

 1. OBIONE, Gaert. 



1. STOCKSII, Wight Ic. t. 1789. Stem shrubby, very ramous 

 ascending or diffuse, branches round, glabrous, unarmed ; leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, elliptic-obtuse, tending to obovate, smooth, 

 glabrous, whitish, and glaucous ; sheath of the bracts conical, limbs 

 orbicular, free, entire ; disk smooth. Gujarat ; common near the sea. 



2. ARTHROCNEMUM, Moq. 



1 . INDICUM, Moq. Chenopod. Enum. p 1 13. Stem suffruticose, 

 procumbent, articulated ; branches herbaceous, alternate, divaricate, 

 articulations short, clavate, thick, spongy, truncate and sub-bifid 

 at the apex ; spikes lateral, alternate or opposite, large, cylindric- 

 obtuse. Common on salt ground. Syn. Salicornia indica, Wiild. 

 nov. Aet. Hist. Nat. v,p 111, t. 4,/. 1 ; Wight Ic. t. 737. Native 

 name " Muchoor." 



