a 
Teuerium.] LABIAT A. 859 
Corolla very small, tube not exserted plebeja 
Corolla long, slender, tube far exserted coccinea 
1679. Sanvra prenesa R. Br.3 i. B. I> iv. 660° By D8. 446. 
S. brachiata F. I. i. 145, 
In most of the provinces. 
An annual weed. Beng. Koka-Buradi, Bhu-tulsi. 
1680. Satvza coccrvea Linn. 
In gardens generally, and occasionally subspontaneous. 
A slender herb, 1-2 feet high ; native of S$. America. 
759. Gomphostemma Wall. 
Perennial herbs or undershrubs, stellately pubescent or tomen- 
tose ; roots often mixed with tubers. Flowers rather large, usually 
yellow ; whorls 6-8-flowered, dense or lax, axillary or in terminal 
spikes, Sepals 5, connate in a 10-nerved calyx ; tube campanu- 
late ; limb equally 5-toothed. Petals connate in a 2-lipped corolla; 
tube slender; throat more or less dilated, rarely annulate; upper 
lip hooded ; lower broadly 3-fid. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascend- 
ing, lower pair longer ; anthers approximate in pairs, 2-locular; 
cells parallel. Disk uniform or slightly swollen. Carpels at 
in a 4-partite ovary; style 2-fid; lobes subulate, nearly equal. 
Fruit of 4 or, by reduction, 3-1 glabrous or pubescent, thickly 
corky or fleshy drupelets; basal scar broad. 
1681. GompnostemMMa PARVIFLORUM Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 697. 
Chittagong. 
An undershrub. 
760. Teucrium Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs; leaves entire, serrate, or lobed, floral leaves 
often bract-like. Flowers usually small; whorls in 2-6-flowered 
axillary or terminal spikes, racemes or heads. Sepals 5, connate 
in a 10-nerved calyx ; teeth equal or the upper larger. Petals 5, 
connate in a 1-lipped corolla; tube not annulate within ; limb slit 
behind, the 2 upper and the lateral lobes cuneate or short or obso- 
lete, lower lobe very large. Stamens 4, didynamous, the lower 
longer, exserted; anthers reniform; cells short, at length con- 
fluent. Disk equal. Carpels connate in a shortly 4-lobed ovary ; 
style 2-fid at tip; lobes subequal. Frwit of 4 obovoid, rugosely 
teticulate nutlets; scar oblique or lateral, often extending more 
than half-way up the nutlet. 
