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PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB, 



A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE KEY TO THE FLORA OF THE PUNJAB, 

 NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR. 



By 



Lieut-Colonel C. J. Bamber, f.l.s., 

 Indian Medical Service. 



Paet VI. 



(Continued from page 836 of Volume XX.) 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Corolla Two-lipped. 



Stamens Four. 



Nepeta eriostachya, 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 657. 

 Himalaya, 11,500 ft. 

 Kashmir (Clarke). 



Inner Pair of Stamens Longest. 



small, sparsely hairy ; leaves |~f in., ovate or 

 ovate heart-shaped, blunt, round-toothed, sessile, 

 velvety beneath ; flowers f in., bright blue, in 

 unbranched terminal cylindric-oblong densely 

 flowered hairy spikes, 1-3 in. long, calyx J in., sessile, 

 5-toothed, teeth slender, feathery, tubular, corolla- 

 tube slender near the base, dilated towards the 

 mouth, twice the length of the calyx, 2-lipped, 

 upper lip erect, straight concave notched, lower 

 spreading 3-lobed, lateral lobes small, tuned back, 

 mid-lobe much larger, narrow at the base, concave, 

 stamens 4 in unequal pairs, ascending under the 

 upper lip, enclosed in the corolla, the upper inner 

 and posterior pair longer than the lower outer and 

 anterior pair, style with two awl-shaped lobes, 

 nutlets smooth. 



