LABIATA. 839 
Order C. LABIATA. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs; usually gland-dotted; stems usually 
4-angled. Leaves opposite or whorled; stipules 0. Flowers 
irregular, s solitary, 2-nate or fascicled and a xillary, or in centyri- 
fugal, spicate cymes which, by union in pairs, form false ns 
bracts small; bracteoles usually minute, opposite. Sep 
nate in a persistent, subregular or irregular, 4—5-cleft, or ated 
2-lipped calyx, Petals 5, connate in a gamopetalous, hypogynous 
corolla; limb 4—5-lobed or distinctly 2-lipped ; lobes imbricate. 
Stamens adnate to corolla-tube, 4 didynamous, or only 2 perfect ; 
anther- cells connate or discrete or confluent; dehiscence longi- 
tu - Disk prominent. Carpels 2, each 2-celled, forming a 
deeply 4-lobed ovary; style faite inserted between the lobes; 
stigma usu: ually 2-fid, sometimes unequally ; ovules solitary in each 
cell, erect, anatropous. Fruit of 4 dry or rarely fleshy, 1-seeded 
nucules at the base of the calyx, sometimes 1 or more suppressed. 
eed small, erect; albumen seanty or 0; radicle inferior. 
*Ovary 4-partite; nutlets hg Pye agian small, basilar, or slightly 
oblique to the outer Seis 42] 
tNutlets dry :—[p. 
{Stamens ee 4 perfect; anther-cells at length explanate, con- 
fluent :—[p. 8 
‘| Attachment of nutlets quite basilar ; upper lobe of calyx usually 
broader than the rest, and at least broader than the two anterior 
©Lower ‘lip of corolla somewhat declinate, flat or very slightly 
concave, generally narrower, but hardly longer than the usually 
4-lobed upper lip ; upper lobe of calyx always widest :—{p. 840] 
Calyx deflexed in fruit, with upper lobe large, ovate, recurved, 
its margins decurrent on the tube, the other lobes narrow, 
subulate :— 
Corolla-tube short; stigma 2-fid Ocimum. 
Corolla-tube usually long ; stigma entire ...... Orthosiphon. 
Calyx suberect or declinate in fruit, the upper lobe broader 
than the lateral and anterior pairs, or (Moschosma sometimes 
only broader than anterior and equalling the lateral pair, not 
decurrent on the tube :— 
