PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



1089 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Corolla Two-lipped. 



Stamens Four. 



Inner Pair of Stamens Longest. 



Nepeta leucophyila, 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 662. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



medium size, slender, branched, grey-felted, 

 stem slightly angled, leafy ; leaves 1-1^ in., ovate 

 heart-shaped, blunt or short-pointed, round-toothed 

 wrinkled above, shortly stalked, otherwise like the 

 last species. 



Nepeta graciiiflora, 



very like Nepeta ruderalis, but more slender 



Labiatje. with thin coarsely round-toothed leaves, longer 



F. B. I. iv. 663. leaf stalks, flowers pale-pink and nutlets more 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. granulate. 

 Valleys below Simla 

 (Collett). 



Nepeta Govaniana, 



Labiate. 

 F. B. I. iv. 663. 

 Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. 

 Narkanda (Collett). 



large, stem 4-angled, branched, finely velvety ; 

 leaves 3-6 by lf-3 in., very variable, ovate or oblong 

 short-pointed, round-toothed, leaf-stalk r-|-2 in., 

 flowers 1 in., yellow, stalked, at intervals in 

 few-flowered long-stalked axillary and terminal 

 racemes, calyx 5 in., straight, cylindric, teeth 

 triangular, much shorter than the calyx-tube, 

 corolla-tube long, very small, curved, greatly 

 dilated above the middle, nutlets broadly oblong 

 smooth, otherwise like the other species of Nepeta. 



Nepeta erecta, 



Labiate. 



F. B. I. iv. 663. 



Himalaya, 6-10,000 ft. 



Mashobra. 



Narkanda (Collett). 



Changlagalli (Douie). 



very like the last species, but the flowers are 

 blue, and only the lowest clusters are stalked. 



