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Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leap Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Corolla Two-lipped. 



Stamens Four. 



Inner Pair of Stamens Longest. 



Nepeta spicata, medium size, smooth or velvety, much branched ; 

 Labiate. leaves If -4 by -|-3 in., ovate or triangular heart- 

 F. B. I. iv. 659. shaped, short-pointed, coarsely round or sharp- 

 Himalaya, 6-10,000 ft . toothed, leaf stalk 1-3 in., spikes terminal, oblong 

 Simla (Collett). or cylindric to 4 in. long, bracts ovate or lanceolate 

 Murree, Changlagali with a bristle-like point, calyx sessile \ in., bristly, 

 (Douie). teeth hairly or bristly slender, flowers are other- 

 wise as in Nepeta campestris. 



Nepeta raphanorhiza, small to medium-size, rootstock round, black, 1 



Labiates. j n . diam., edible, stems many, branched or not, 



F. B. I. iv. 659. slender, smooth or softly hairy ; leaves f-1 in., 



Himalaya, 5-12,000 ft. broadly ovate or ovate heart-shaped, blunt, round 



Kashmir to Chamba or sharp-toothed, stalk half the length of the blade ; 



(Jacquemont). flowers ^ in. purplish-blue in ovoid or cylindric 



spikes, bracts ovate to lanceolate, calyx £ in., 



sessile, teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube, 



corolla-tube slender, twice as long as the calyx ; 



other characters like those of other species of 



Nepeta. 



Nepeta discolor, very like the last species in habit and foliage 



Labiatje. but has a long, not a tuberous root, the leaves are 



F. B. I. iv. 659. often white-felted beneath, and the flowers white 



Himalaya, 10-15,000 ft. or pale blue. 



Nepeta glutinosa, medium size, velvety from glands, sticky, strong- 

 Labiat^. ly scented, stem stout, stiff, leafy ; leaves f-1 in., 

 F. B. I. iv. 660. ovate heart-shaped, short pointed, sharply toothed 

 Himalaya, 11-13,000 ft. like a comb, sometimes partly stem-clasping ; flow- 

 Kashmir, ers J in. long, white or blue, in axillary few- 



