848 BENGAL PLANTS. [Hyptis. 
744, Hyptis Jacq. 
Herbs or shrubs. Injflorescence various, often capitate. Sepals 
connate in an ovoid, campanulate or tubular, subequally 5-toothed 
or 5-lobed calyx. Petals 5, ema in aa | 2-lipped corolla; 
tube cylindric or slightly enlarged ; limb with 4 upper lobes sub- 
equal, erect or spreading ; lowest lobe beat deflexed, saccate, 
contracted at the base. Stamen , didynamous, declinate ; 
anther-cells ta Disk entire or eer ire in front. Carpels 
connate in a 4-partite ovary; style shortly 2-fid or subentire at the 
tip. Fruit of 4 dry, ovoid or oblong nutlets, ——— or rugulose, 
sometimes slightly winged; basal scar small. 
Flowers in globose heads capitata, 
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1642, Hyptis caprTaTa Jacq. 
C. Bengal, naturalised, r. 
An erect annual; ss from neice 
1643. Hypris suavEoLeNs Poit.; F. B. I. i ee 
In all the western provinces, very common 
A rigid annual, 2-4 feet high; native # America. 
Vernac. Bilati tulsi. 
745, Lavandula Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs; leaves incised or entire. Flowers in 2-10- 
flowered whorls, collected in simple or branched spikes. Sepals 
5, connate in an erect, ovoid-tubular, shortly, equally 5-toothed, 
13-15-nerved calyx. Petals 5, connate in an oblique, 2-lipped, 
blue corolla; limb slightly nes as upper lip 2-fid ; lower 3-par- 
tite; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, declinate, 
included ; use free; anther-cells confluent. Disk equal. 
Carpels connate in a 4-partite ovary; style shortly 2-fid; lobes 
flattened. Fea of 7 dry, smooth nutlets; basal scar sbixiaheliad 
oblique. 
1644. LavanpuLa Burmanni Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 681. 
ur, 
A slender herb, 2-3 feet high. 
746. Pogostemon Desi. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves opposite, rarely ternate. Flowers _ 
small, in solitary or panicled spikes or contracted racemes, formed 
