1890.] D. Prain — Some additional species of Labiato3. 307 



Eastern Himalaya ; Phari, frequeut, Dr. King's collectors ; East 

 Tibet, commou, Lama Ujyen Gyatsko. Distrib. W. Kaiisu. 



32. SCUTELLARIA Linn. 



§ Flowers not secund. 



* Floivers in short leafy terminal spikes that are 4!- angled in hud, 

 hracts leafy. 



2 h. Scutellaria Stocksii Boiss. ; dwarf, softly hirsute, woody at 

 the base, mucli brauched, old branches prostrate, young ascending, leaves 

 small elliptic-oblong, shortly petioled, apex acute base cuneate margin 

 entire, spikes few-flowered subcapitate, corolla pubescent much longer 

 than calyx. — S. Stocksii Boiss.y Diagn, ser. 2, iv, 28 ; Flor. Orient., iv, 

 684. 



Panjab frontier ; assigned districts of Beluchistan at Pil Rift near 

 Quetta, Lace n. 3881. Distrib. Beluchistan (Chehen Tun, Stocks). 



Habit of S. prostrata and 8. Heydei but more compact and with 

 shorter branches and fewer-flowered heads. Leaves 1 cm. long 0*75 

 cm. wide, bracts similar but smaller, heads few-fld almost hidden by the 

 leaves, corolla 18 mm. long. 



A very distinct species. 



* * Flowers more or less laxly racemose. 



2 c. Scutellaria multicaulis Boiss. ; much branched from a woody 

 base, branches erect virgate simple slender shortly puberulous, leaves 

 small hoary-tomentose and subglandular beneath, distinctly petioled, 

 apex acute, base cuneate or subtruncate, margin bluntly or deeply few- 

 toothed, flowers few distant opposite, bracts small ovate entire hardly 

 exceeding calyx, corolla puberulous much longer than calyx. — Scutel- 

 laria multicaulis Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1, vii, 61 ; and Flor. Orient., iv, 685 ; 

 Benth., DC. Prodr., xii, 414. — S. nepetsefolia Bentli., DG. Prodr., xii, 414. 



GiLGiT; Hindu Kush, Giles. DiSTRiB. Afghanistan, Persia. 



Branches 20 — 25 cm. long, petioles 0'5 cm. long, laminae 1 cm. long 

 0'75 cm. wide, bracts 3'5 mm. long, calyx 3 mm. long, corolla 25 mm, 

 long, yellowish with purple patches. 



§ § Flowers opposite racemose secund. 



* * * Flowers in long narrow racemes, hracts shorter than the pedicel 

 and calyx. 



4 h. Scutellaria andamanica Prain ; quite glabrous, stems many 

 from a woody rootstock with clustered rootlets, erect, simple or branched, 

 rigid, leaves long petioled oblong-lanceolate obtuse crenate-dentate 

 except tapering cuneate base, flowers opposite or in whorls of 3 except 

 the upper, corolla blue with centre of lip white, nutlets pale brown scabrid. 



South Andaman ; Rungachang, in stream bed, 25 feet above sea- 

 level, Prain. 



