Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 711 



l)elow. Stems 1 to 2 ft. long, pubescent with reflexed adpressed hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, meml^ranous, harshly hairy above, glabrous beneath, 

 rather wide-lanceolate, acute ; base long-cuneate, entire ; margin else- 

 where serrate ; 1 to 2 in. long, -25 to "35 in. wide ; petiole "25 in. long 

 or shorter ; floral leaves like those on the stem below the whorls. 

 Flowers in axillary capitate distant whorls ; bracts acute, shorter than 

 the flowers. Calyx •! in. long, tubular-campanulate, adpressed-pubes- 

 cent; teeth lahceolate, acute, longer than the tube. Corolla "15 in. long, 

 pubescent. Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 173. M. sativa, Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. III. 6 {hardly of Linn.). M. arvensis, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 239 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. III. 381 (hardly of Linn.). M. arvensis var. javanica, 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 648. 



MAiiACCA : Griffith ! — Distrib. Ceylon ; Java ; Philippines. 



Apparently rare, and possibly an introduced plant in our area, seeing that it has 

 never been reported since Griffith met with it. As Sir J. D. Hooker remarks, this, 

 which is Roxburgh's 31. sativa, may really be a form of M. sativa, Linn., and, if so, may 

 only be a state of M. arvensis, Linn., to which Boissier refers 31. sativa, and to which 

 Thwaites refers the present plant. For the purposes of a local flora, however, it seems 

 better to keep this form, which is easily recognized, apart as a distinct species. 



9. Calamintha, Moench. 



Herbs or shrubs. Floivers small or medium, in dense axillary or 

 loose spicate or racemose or panicled whorls. Calyx 13-nerved, 2-lipped ; 

 lower lip 2-toothed, teeth narrow ; upper lip 3-toothed, teeth wider and 

 more highly connate ; throat naked or villous. Corolla-titbe straight, 

 throat villous ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed ; upper lip erect, flattish. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under upper lip, the upper pair 

 sometimes imperfect; anther-cells parallel or divaricate. Disk uniform, 

 entire. Style-lobes equal or the upper smaller. Nutlets minute, sub- 

 globose, smooth. — DisTEiB. Species about 40, in North Temperate 

 regions. 



G.iLAMiNTHA GRACILIS, Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. 232 (1848). A slen- 

 der prostrate herb. Stems 8 to 12 in., faintly puberulous, rooting below. 

 Leaves opposite, membranous, glabrous on both sides, dark-green above, 

 paler beneath, ovate-subacute ; base rounded or shortly cuneate, entire ; 

 margin elsewhere serrate; "4 to '6 in. long, -3 to "5 in. wide; petiole 

 ■25 in. long, puberulous. Flozvers in lax many-flowered whorls in axils 

 of uppermost leaves, and there remote or aggregated in racemose or sub- 

 capitate terminal racemes, with rachis sparsely pubescent ; bracteoles 

 subulate, finely puberulous, half as long as slender pedicels. Calyx 

 •12 in. (in fruit -17 in.) long ; tube slightly inflated below ; lower teeth 

 subulate, ciliate, incurved ; upper lip shortly 3-toothed, recurved ; teeth 



