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Рулте 77.— Nepeta Prainii Duthie, Portion of a plant;—of natural sise. Fig. 1, side view of 
a single flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, calyx laid open, showing the style and ovary; 4, ripe 
uutlet,—all enlarged. 
J, Е. D. 
PLATE 78. 
Ағвила Duthie in Journ. Bomb. Nat, Hist. Soc. хі. 696 (1898). 
Natural order Labiate. 
Саут tubular, 15-nerved, slightly curved, mouth oblique, entire;  corolla-tube 
slender towards the base, exserted, without a ring of hairs within; limb 2-lipped, 
posterior erect, concave, bifid; lower spreading, 3-fid; mid-lobe larger than the lateral 
ones, bifid; stamens 4, nearly equal, ascending beneath the posterior lip, exserted or 
included; anthers 2-celled, lobes diverging and at length divaricate; disk divided into 
four equal lobes; sfyle included or exserted, bifid; lobes subulate, nearly equal; 
nutlets obovoid, minutely tuberculate, with a V-shaped areole at the base.—Suffruti- 
cose, with many branching stems; lowers in densely packed verticillasters forming 
compact terminal spikes, or with the lower clusters more or less interrupted; corolla 
pale-yellow tinged with lilac. 
This genus is most nearly related to Nepeta, both as to its habit and in its 
general structure; but the truncate mouth of the calyx distinguishes it from all 
other genera of the tribe Nepetee. Тһе dimorphism of the flowers might suggest ап 
affinity with Ozynepeta of Bunge (a section of Nepeta), but the tendency in Afridia 
is towards a dicecious condition. 
85. AFRIDIA NEPETEZFCRMIS Duthie, 
A 
А hoary-pubescent hrub; stems 8—6 dm.; leaves shortly stalked, 1:5 to 
5 сш. by ‘7 to 29 cm., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, cordate, crenate, rugose 
on upper surface, prominently veined beneath; spikes of long-styled form shorter 
and more compact than those of the saort-styled one; lower bracts leaf-like ; bracteoles 
membranous, shorter than the calyx, ovate, acute or acuminate, 8-nerved; calyz 6 
mm. long, clothed with spreading hairs and more or less tinged with reddish 
purple; corolla 1 cm. in length, exserted, hairy outside; tube slender, curved; stamens 
of short-styled form exserted, nearly equal in length, the posterior pair slightly 
overtopping the anterior, filaments clothed with spreading hairs towards their bases, 
anther-lobes divaricate; stamens of long-styled form included, filaments very short, the 
posterior pair attached to corolla a little higher up, anther-lobes remaining confluent ; 
style slender, included or exserted. Nepeta suavis Stapf, Kew Bulletin (Dec. Kewens, 
xxiii, 227) for 1896, 19. 
AFGHANISTAN: Grifith (No. 4060); Kurram Valley, at an elevation of 7,500 feet; 
Aitchison, 1879 (Nos. 634 and 613 “Nepeta sp."); at 8,000 feet, 1894; Harsukh (plant 
collector, Bot. Dept, N. India); Samánu range and Tirah, at elevations of between 
4,500 and 8,500 feet; Inayat Khan (plant collector, Bot. Dept. М. India), 1897, 
No. 20921. | 
