PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 



1095 



Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals United. 



Corolla Two-lipped. 



Stamens Four. 



Outer Pair of Stamens Longest. 



Stachys f ioccosa, 

 Woundwort, 



Labiat.e. 



F. B. I. iv. 675. 



Himalaya, 5-6,000 ft 



large, stout, densely covered with white wool 

 stem 4-angled : leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, heart-shaped, shortly pointed, round- 

 toothed, thick, velvety above, stalk f-1 in., very 

 thick ; flowers f-f in., pink, spotted with purple 

 Kashmir(Jacquemont). BeBB fle, crowded inaxiHary woolly clusters and in 

 terminal spikes with interspaces, bracts as long as 

 the calyx, calyx J in., bell-shaped, 10-nerved, teeth 

 5, triangular points, spinous, coloured pink, corolla 

 two-lipped, woolly, upper lip erect, lower spreading 

 3-lobed, mid-lobe largest, tube shortly projecting 

 out of the calyx, stamens 4, ascending, style-lobes 

 nearly equal ; nutlets 4, ovoid smooth. 



Stachys sericea, 



Labiale. 



F. B. I. iv. 675. 



Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 



Simla, Mashobra (Col- 



lett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



Stachys meiisssefolia, 



Labiatje. 



F. B. I. iv. 675. 



Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. 



Stachys pafustris, 

 Marsh betony, 



Labiat.e. 

 F. B. I. iv. 676. 

 Himalaya, 5-6,000 ft. 

 Kashmir (Thomson). 



very like the last species only less woolly, and 

 sometimes unbranched. 



very like the last species, only more slender, less 

 hairy, silky and leafy, the calyx is shorter, as broad 

 as long, teeth triangular with a thickened tip not 

 ending in a spine. 



medium-size, perennial, stem 4-angled, bristly 

 with reversed hairs ; leaves 3-4 by f-1 in., narrowly 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed, toothed, 

 sessile, floral leaves longer than the calyx ; flowers 

 small, pink in 6-flowered circular clusters, -^-1 in, 

 diam., at intervals, never spicate, bracts minute., 



