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12. PHLOMIS. 



Herbs or shrubs with dense whorls of showy flowers. Calyx 

 tubular, truncate, or 5-toothed. Upper lip of the corolla 

 arched ; the lower one spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, the 

 filaments of the upper pair with an awl-shaped appendage at 

 the base. A small genus from the Mediterranean region and 

 temperate Asia. The origin of the generic name is obscure, 

 but is said to come from (/>Xo7/uos, a flame, in consequence of 

 the down of some species having been used for wicks. 



1. Ph. fruticosa. Jerusalem Sage. A handsome shrubby 

 species with lanceolate-ovate or oblong crenate acute leaves 

 clothed with a yellowish down. Flowers yellow, in large 

 axillary whorls or verticillasters in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. A native of the South of Europe, flowering in Summer. 



2. Ph. Herba-venti. Wind Herb. An herbaceous peren- 

 nial from 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves thick, oblong-lanceolate, 

 toothed and hairy. Flowers purple and violet ; corolla villous 

 outside ; calyx-teeth rigid and sharp. Also a native of the 

 South of Europe. 



Ph. tuberosa has purple flowers in which the upper lip of 

 the corolla is bordered with a slender white fringe. Ph. Rus- 

 selliana is clothed with a white down and has large whorls of 

 yellow flowers. 



13. EREMOSTACHYS. 



A small genus of herbs with pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, 

 distinguished by the upper lip of the corolla being elongated 

 and narrowed at the base and hairy on the outside, and the 

 lower lip with three spreading lobes. The species are natives 

 of the Levant and North-western India. Name from e/^os-, 

 solitary, and (ndj(ys, a spike. 



1. E. laainiata. A striking plant from 3 to 4 feet high 

 with hairy pinnate leaves. Leaflets irregularly lobed and 

 toothed. Flowers in a terminal bracteate spike, purple and 

 yellow. A native of Western Asia, flowering in Summer. 



E. Iberica, from the same country, has less hairy leaves and 

 yellow flowers. 



14 TEtCRIUM. 



Herbs or undershrubs with the flowers in bracteate spikes or 

 racemes of whorls. Calyx tubular-campanulate, equally or 

 unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, naked within ; limb 

 unequally 5-lobed, the 2 uppermost very short, and the centra] 



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