537 



Spec. Char. Softly villous : stems leafy : leaves deeply pinna- 

 tifid ; lobes oblong or linear-toothed, green on both sides, villous : 

 floral leaves broadly ovate, acute, as long as the calyx ; spikes dense, 

 villous : flowers solitary, alternate. 



Hills at Sattara, flowering in November. 



(2) L. BuRMANNi. (Benih.) 



Jdent. Benth. 1. c. — Dee. prod. XII, p. 147. 



Syn. L. multifida, Burnt. — Bysteropogon bipinnatum, Roth.—m. 

 Chffitostachys multifida, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. II. p. 19. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1438. 



Spec. Char. Slightly pubescent : leaves bipinnatifid, segments 

 linear-entire; floral leaves membranaceous, dilated at the base, 

 acuminated and setaceous at the apex, longer than the calyx : spikes 

 short, dense : flowers solitary, approximated, either white or of a. 

 beautiful deep-blue. 



Common in the Decoan. Mysore. Coorg. Bellary. 



GENUS XI. POGOSTEMON. 



DidT-namla Crymnoaiiermia. Sex: Sysi: 



Deriv. From Pogon, a beard, and Stemon, a stamen. 



Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-tubular, equal, 6-toothed, throat 

 naked within : tube of the corolla incluse, limb 4-cleft, sub-bilabi- 

 ate, the upper lip trifid, the inferior one entire, all the lobes quite 

 entire, about equal, spreading : stamens 4, exserted, straight or 

 somewhat declining : filaments bearded about the middle or 

 naked : anthers terminal, one-celled, opening transversly : style 

 equally bifid at the point, lobes subulate. — ^Herbs (or under 

 shrubs ?) : leaves opposite, petioled or entire, dentate or somewhat 

 lobed : verticillasters many-flowered, equal or somewhat secund, 

 sometimes glomerato-spicate supported by bracts, the spikeleta 

 racemosely-panicujed, sometimes loosely approximate in spike- 

 like racemes. 



(1) P. PANICULATUM. (^Betlth.) 



Jdent. Benth. in Wall. PL As. Rar. I. p, 30.— Dec. prod. XII. 

 ■p. 151. 



Syn. Elsholzia paniculata, Willd, — Hyssopus cri3tatus, Lam, 

 Engrav, Rheede Mai, X. t. 65. 



