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(1) D. RUPESTRis. {Dah.) 



Jdent. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot.— Bomb. flor. p. 208. 



Syn. Mentha quadrifolia, Roxb. 



Spec. Char. Perennial, erect : stems round, 'woody, 3 to 4 

 feet high : leaves 4-fold, spreading, short petioled, linear-lanceolate, 

 serrated, rugose downy : spikes terminal, solitary, cylindric, covered 

 vith innumerable small rose-coloured flowers ; corolla-tube twice 

 the length of the calyx : segments reflexed. 



Near Vingorla. 



(2) I). TOMENTOSA. (^Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II. 337. — Bomb. flor. 

 p. 208. 



Spec. Char. Softly tomentose all over, with spreading hairs r 

 stem creeping : branches several, simple, erect : leaves verticilled, 

 6 to 9 together, linear acute, quite entire, much longer than the 

 internodes, covered beneath with scattered glands, margins revolute :. 

 floral leaves of the same shape : calyx tuberculate, glandular, dense- 

 ly tomentose : segments triangular, ovate-obtuse, shorter than the 

 hairs. 



In rice fields near Malwan. 



(3) D. ERECTA. (Dais.} 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. Bomb. flor. p. 208. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, branched, rather {lispjd : leaves 

 verticilled, 9 to 12 together, narrow, linear-obtuse at the apex, 

 papillose and rough on both side, glandular-dotted beneath, equal- 

 ling the internodes ; floral leaves filiform, with a thick oblique head, 

 as long as the calyx : calyx villous : segments erect, obtuse, 7 to S 

 inches high. 



Near Malwan. 



(4) D. GRACILIS, (Dah^ 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. Bomb. flor. p. 208. ' 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, straight, 9 inches high, sparingly 

 branched above, rough with soft spreading hairs : leaves verticil- 

 led in sevens, narrow, linear-acute, longer than the internodes, dis- 

 tantly and minutely toothed towards the apex ; floral leaves linear- 

 acute, densely ciliated, longer than calyx and corolla ; upper tooth 

 pf the corolla the smaller and quite entire. 



On the Ghauts, 



