SOME ENTIRE-LEAVED FORMS OF LAMIUM 153 
almost a sees From Plukenet’s synonym it appears to have come 
m America. No succeeding author has noticed the plant.* The 
aay is anall and annual. Stem a foot high, or something less, 
s 
more poo He 0. The lower leaves are yon roundish: ovate, — 
slightly crenate, on longish stalks, and nearly smooth ; floral ones 
about six or eight pairs, crossing each other, crowded together at 
the top of the stem, composing a sort of pyramid, each leaf about 
three-quarters of an inch long, stalked, ovate, obtuse, sapening at 
the base, entire, except her e and there a casual notch in e of 
= all slightly pnts mae underneath. Whorls siiesed, of 
umerous small purple flowers, much like those of L. purpureum. 
Calys nearly smooth, its teeth as long - the body, spreading, 
broad at — base, with taper rigid poin Seed curiously be- 
sprinkled with pale, prominent, minute Aes eg $ is more or less 
the case in se three following ”’ [i.e. L. purpureum, L. incisum, and 
L. amplexicaule] . 
mith was hardly the man to found a new species solely on 
geographical distribution; and in his herbarium is a sheet with 
e specimens marked ‘‘ Chelsea Garden, 1786, Pluk. t. wr 
f. 2, ocymifolium §m.,” which well demonstrate the strikingly 
distinct character of this form. They are about 10 in. hig 
the base of the stem they bear small idéves on long nokialie with 
Sala branches, above which, as Smith says, there is a long bare 
The leaves are all petiolate, ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, and 
tnpering at the base. The inflorescence is in no case as crowded as 
in L. pur pares so as, pace Sir J. E.§., to be more like an obelisk 
than a pyra 
B he. oO in his Labiate (p. 789 Maer ), —_ this form 
under L. purpureum without comment, merely mis-spelling the 
name ‘‘ ocimifolium,” but Se i he ae seen the type. 
His See and spelling are followed in the Index Kewensis; but 
in De Candolle’s Prodromus (yok, xii. (1848) p. 509) he has allowed 
“Sm.” to appear as “‘ Sims.’’ In spite of this high authority, I 
would suggest that this uey distinc’ form should at least bear the 
varietal name ocymifolia 
The third form is even closer to L. = pureum, though ue 
distinct from the second. I know only two specimens. In 
herbarium (now in athe National cllction) of Joseph ‘Andrews, 
apothecary, of Sudbury, Suffolk, who seems to have been an apt 
* The italics are mine.—G. 8. B. 
