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Gen. C&ak. Flowering calyx campanulate, fhiit-bearing one, 

 tubalar, decimate, 2-lipped, lips membranaceous, upper one 3- 

 clefl, lower entire, truncated : corolla tube very short, tbt'oat 

 campanulate, upper lip broad, truncated or 4-toothed, lower one 

 a little longer, oblong : Rtamens four : filaments free, upper ones 

 with a tooth at the base : style 2-cleft : lobes unequal. — Herbs : 

 racemes terminal : verticils many-flowered : floral leaves bract- 

 shaped, caducous. 



(1) M. Wallichiana. (Benth. 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 46. 



Syn. Geniosperuin parviflorum, Benth. Lab. p. 20. 



Spec. Char. Stem ascendent or erect : leaves ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at the base, floral ones ovate-acuminate. 



Khasia bills, .\ssam. 



GENUS IV. ACEOCEPHALtJS. 



itidynamia Gryninospermia. next Sj/Bti 



beriv. From Akron, summit, and Kephale, head ; the flowers 

 are at the top of the branches. 



' Gbn. Chae. Calyx ovate, tubular, gibbous at the base, 2-lip> 

 ped, upper lip entire, lower entire or 4-toothed, throat naked : 

 corolla sub-bilabiate, upper lip 4-toothed, lower entire, all the 

 lobes nearly equal : stamens 4, filaments free, toothless : style 

 shortly 2-cleft at the top : nuts smooth. — Herbs : flowers small, 

 densely imbricated in terminal heads or axillary whorls. 



(1) A. capitatus. (^Benth.) 



Ident. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ran II. p. 1 8.— Dec. prod XII. 



Syn. Prunella Indica, Burm. — Ocimum capitellatum, Linn. 

 ^ont. — O. capitatum. Roth. — Lumnitzera capitata, Spreng. 



Engrav. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 456. 



Spec. Char. Stem procumbent, much branched at the base : 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate, sub-glabrous : heads of flowers terminal : 

 lower lip of the calyx 4-toothed : leaves remotely serrate, narrowed 

 at the base, floral ones 2-4 under the capitula, ovate, subsessile, 

 Longer than the capitulum : flowers white. 



Peninsula. Assam. S. Maratta Country. Khasia. 



