LABIATH., (MINT FAMILY.) 99 
* Perennial, in tufts from a procumbent and almost woody base. 
1. M. villosa, Benth. Soft-pubescent or villous a foot or two high; leaves ovate, 
often with a few obtuse teeth, being 6 to 10 lines long, petioled. Sometimes nearly 
sinooth. 
** Annual; l entire or undulate. 
2. M. undulata, Benth. A span to a foot or more high; leaves from oblong 
spatulate to nearly linear with a narrowed base, obtuse, undulate-margined, about an inch 
long; bracts and calyx villous; corolla rose-color. Has the odor of Peppermint. 
3. M. Breweri, Gr. A spanor more high; leaves oblong or ovate, pinnately veined, 
the larger an inch long; bracts broadly ovate, cuspidate, whitish-scarious, the outer 
pinnately and the inner nervosely 7~9-ribbed; corolla rose-purple. 
4. M. Douglasii, Benth. Loosely’branched; leaves lanceolate, an inch long, taper- 
ing into the petiole; the silvery white or purple-tinged bracts mostly transparent, with a 
strong marginal vein connected with the midrib by pinnate veins.—Strong-scented; co- 
rolla deep rose-color. 
5. MICROMBERIA, Benth 
Calyx not gibbous. Corolla short; upper lip erect, flattish, entire or emarginate; 
lower spreading, 3-parted.—Low plants, sweet-odorous, with small axillary flowers. 
1. M. Douglasii, Benth. Yerba Buznwa. Perennial herb, with long slender creep- 
ing and trailing stems; leaves round-ovate, thin, sparingly toothed, short petioled, an 
inch long or less; flowers mostly solitary on a long filiform 2-bracteolate peduncle; co- 
colla purplish or white, 4 lines long. 
2. M. purpurea, Gr. Erect, much branched; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely 
serrate; flowers in umbel-like clusters; corolla purple-blue, 2 lines long. 
6. POGOGYNE, Benth. 
Calyx cleft to below the middle; the 2 lower teeth longer; corolla straight, tubular- 
funnelform, with short lips; the erect and entire upper lip and the three lobes of the 
spreading lower one oval and somewhat alike. Stamens with the upper shorter pair 
sometimes sterile; the anther cells parallel and pointless. Style somewhat exserted, 
bearded above.—Low annuals, sweet-aromatic; with oblong or oblanceolated leaves nar- 
rowed into a petiole; flowers mostly crowded and interrupted spicate; bracts and calyx 
hirsute-ciliate; the corolla blue or purplish. 
* Stamens all four with anthers; style conspicuously bearded above, and its subulate lobes 
almost equal; corolla 6 to 9 lines long; flowers densely crowded into an oblong cylindri- 
cal spike, which is conspicuously white-hirsute with the long, stiff, ciliate hairs of the 
calyx, : 
1. P. Douglasii, Benth. Rather stout, a span to a foot high; leaves veiny. some- 
