304 D. Prain — Some additional species of Labiates. [No. 4, 



587 ; Aitch. 8f Hemsl.^ Trans. Linn. Soc, n. s. iii, 96. — Z. persica Bunge^ 

 Lab. Pers. 39 (fide Boiss.). — Faldermaunia parviflora Trautv., Bull. Ac. 

 Imp. Peter sh. vii, 21. 



Panjab Frontier ; Suleiman range, Buhe. Distrib. BelucliistaD, 

 Afghanistan, Persia, Asia Minor, Tnrkestan, Soongaria. 



Root slender, stems 10 — 15 cm, high, leaves 1*5 — 2*5 cm. long 0"25 — 

 0*5 cm. wide, whorls often in spikes the whole length of the stem, 1*5 — 2 

 cm. wide, calyx 8 mm. long 2 mm. wide, corolla 11 mm. long. 



29. NEPETA Linn. 



A. Whorls in simple terminal oblong or cylindric spikes, which are 

 rarely interrupted at the base. {F. B. I., iv, 657.) 



* * Leaves entire or crenate sessile or subsessile. 



6 h. Nepeta podostachts Bentli. ; stem tall subsimple glabrescent, 

 rootstock elongated prostrate, leaves small sessile linear-lanceolate acute, 

 base narrowed entire margin elsewhere coarsely serrate, spikes narrowed 

 sometimes interrupted at the base, bracts linear-lanceolate mucronulate, 

 calyx sessile, teeth very slender sparingly ciliate. — Nepeta podostachys 

 Benth., DG. Prodr. xii, 372; Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 639. 



Western Temperate Himalaya; Gilgit, at G-hizeh, 10,000 feet, in 

 irrigated soil, Giles. Distrib. Afghanistan (Griffith n. 4000). 



Stems 40 — 60 cm., rootstock 8 — 10 cm. slender, leaves 1 — 2 cm. long 

 under 0*5 cm. wide, spikes 5 — 8 cm. long 1'5 cm. wide, bracts 5 mm. long, 

 calyx 8 mm. long, tube 4*5 mm., teeth 3'5 mm., corolla 12 mm. long. 



Nearly related to N. campestris, nervosa and eriostachya but well 

 distinguished by its smaller leaves and narrower bracts. It bears to N. 

 nervosa something of the relationship that N. campestris bears to N. 

 eriostachya. 



8. Nepeta coerdlescens Maxim., Mel. Biol, xi, 306 (1881) ; Forbes 

 ^\Hemsl., Jotir. Linn. Soc. xxwi, 289 (1890). — N. Thomsoni Benth. mss. 

 ex Booh. /., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 658 (1885).— Distrib. Lhassa {Serb. 

 Calcutta) ; Kansu. 



D. Whorls in branched panicles some or all more or less peduncled. 

 {F. B. I. iv, 661.) 



* Corolla less than \ in. long. 



25 h. Nepeta glomerolosa Boiss. ; erect branched from the 

 woody base, branches slender hoary tomentose simple or again branching, 

 leaves small ovate, crenate, linear-rugose, shortly petioled below, sessile 

 above, whorls small few-flowered lower pedunculate distant upper sessile in 

 interrupted narrow spikes, bracts membranous ovate acute entire, equalling 

 sessile hirsute calyx with oblique mouth and lanceolate teeth shorteir 

 than the tube, corolla § longer than calyx, nutlets minutely tuberculated. 



