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5-Clefti : seeds small, striated. — Villous herbs, usually aromatic i 

 leaves oppbsite, wrinkled, crenulated : flowers axillary or arrang- 

 ed in leafy terminal spites : pedicels ^ort, solitary, often brac-» 

 teolate at the apex. 



(1) P. ovATUM. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. X. p. 280. 



Syn. Herpestis ovata, fVatl. in Benth. Sicroph. I'fid. p. 30. 



Spec. Char. Pubescent or afterwards glabrate : leaves short* 

 petioled, ovate, crenated : flowers axillary, subsessile. 



Peninsula. , 



(2) P. VILLOSUM. {Senth.) 



Ident. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 21.— Dec. prod. X. p. 380. 



Syn. Adenosma villosum, Wall. Cat. No. 3851. — Stemodia 

 camphorata, Vahl. 



Spec. Char. Leaves ovate, acuminated or ovate-lanceolatej 

 crenated, Wrinkled, villous : lower flowers axillary, upper ones 

 racemose. 



{"undua. Silhet. 



(3) P. 'cAPiiXtuM. (Benth.) 



Ident. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 21. — Dec. prod. X. p. 380. 



Syn, Stemodia capitata, Benth. in Bot. Reg. No, 1470. — P. 

 spicatum, Benth, Scroph, I. c, — Erinus labiatus, Roxh. fior. Ind. 

 III. p. 92. 



V Spec. Char. Erect, branched: leaves ovate-oblong pr lanceo- 

 late, serrated : flowers congested into an obleng or globose spike % 

 corolla exceeding the calyx. 



Peninsula, Assam. 



GENUS Vni. STEMODtA. 

 Didynamla AngioBpermla. Sex, Sysi: 



Deriv. Prom Stemon, a stamen, and Dis, double ; in allusion 

 to each stamen bearing t'vyo anthers. 



Gen. Chah. Calyx S-parted, segments narrow, nearly equal or 

 the posterior one slightly larger : upper lip of the corolla emar- 

 ginate or rarely 2-cleft, lower 3-lobed, throat not plicate : sta- 

 mens four, included, anther-cells disjoined, staJked, all pollen- 



