DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Melittis. -Ill 



gent ; tube much narrower than the calyx ; throat a httle 

 dilated ; upper lip erect, rounded, entire, slightly con- 

 cave ; lower spreading, in 3 deep obtuse lobes, the mid- 

 dle one largest, inversely heart-shaped. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, straight, shorter than the upper lip, the 2 inter- 

 mediate ones shortest. AntJi. two-lobed, converging in 

 pairs forming a double cross. Germ, in 4 obtuse downy 

 lobes. Style thread-shaped, reaching to the anthers. 

 Stigma cloven, acute. Seeds 4, oval, small, in the bottom 

 of the open unaltered calyx. 

 Herbs which acquire in drying the scent of hay. Stems 

 mostly simple, leafy, erect, 18 inches high, square, rough 

 with spreading or deflexed hairs. Leaves stalked, ovate, 

 serrated. Fl. large, handsomely variegated with purple 

 and white, solitary or aggregate, on short, simple, axil- 

 lary stalks. 



1. M. Melissophyllum. Reddish Bastard-Balm. 

 Calyx with three unequal, partly notched, lobes. 



M. Melissophyllum. Linn. Sp. PL 832. Willd. v. 3. 1 57, with con- 

 fused synonyms. Huds. 264. Fl. Br. 643. Engl. Bot.v.9.t.577. 

 Jacq. Austr. t. 26. 



Melissophyllum. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.2l.f.2. 



M. n. 244. Hall. Hist. V. I. 107. 



Melissa Fuchsii. Raii Sijn. 242. Lob. Ic. 515./. Camer. Hort. 99. 

 t. 30, separate calyx very correct. 



M. Fuchsii, flore purpureo. Ger. Em. 690./. 



Lamium Pannonicum primum, versicolore flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 

 37./. 



In woods and hedges of the south and west of England. 



About Totnes, Devonshire, and Haverford-west^ Pembrokeshire. 

 Ray. In the New Forest, Hampshire. Huds. Roots brought 

 from Devonshire, by Mr. Hudson, have long been cultivated in 

 Chelsea garden. Mr. Fairbairn. In St. Leonard's forest, Sus- 

 sex, and near Netley Abbey, Hampshire. Mr. Lightfoot's her- 

 barium. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous, slightly creeping. Herbage deep green, finely hairy, 

 especially the stem, which is almost entirely without branches. 

 Leaves 1|- or 2 inches long, copiously and equally serrated, 

 veiny ; paler beneath. Fl. 1, 2 or 3 in the bosom of each leaf, 

 on round, simple stalks about equal to the footstalks, all turned 

 one way. Cal. reticulated with hairy veins, coloured, fringed, 

 the margin gaping, unequally three-lobed ; upper lobe longest, 

 acute, often with a single notch at each side ; two lower ones 

 equal, lateral, either undivided or notched. Cor. twice or thrice 



