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GENUS XV. PERILLA. 



niilynantia (»ymno8|ierinia. Sex.- Sysi ,. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, frucbiferous one noc}^ 

 ding, gibbous at the base, bilabiate, upper lip dilated, S-cleft, 

 middle tootli less, lower lip 2-cleft, throat naked : corolla obliqe- 

 ly campanulate, limb shortly 5-cleft, lower lobe a little longer : 

 stamens 4, nearly equal, distant, erect, equalling the corolla ; 

 anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, at length diverging or somewhat 

 divaricate : style deeply 2-cleft : nuts dry, smooth. — Erect or 

 decumbent herbs ; flowers shortly pedicelled at the axils of the 

 floral bract-shaped leaves, solitary, opppsite, arranged in axillar j 

 or panicled secund racemes. 



(1) P. ociMoiDES. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Gen. p. 578. — Dec. prod. XII. p. 684. 



Syn. r. macrostachya, Benth. in Wall. cai.-^Ocimum frutess 

 cens, Linn. — Mentha peTilloides, Lam. (not Linn.) Rexh.flor. Ind, 



Engrav. Bot. Mag. t. 2395. 



Spec. Char. Hairy : leaves broad-ovate, coarsely serrato-cre.i 

 nate : fructiferous calyx very hairy at the base, teeth of the uppej 

 lip ovate, acute : flowers whitish. 



Silhet. Assam. Flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS XVI. MICROMERIA. 

 Didyiiamia CSymnosperinia. Sex: Syst! 



Derlv. From Micros, small, and Meris, a part. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx tubular, 13 or 15 striated, 5-dentat0, teeth 

 about equal, straight or scarcely 2-lipped, throat usually villous 

 within : tube of the corolla equal, straight, naked within, usually 

 shorter than the calyx ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, entire or 

 emarginate ; lower one spreading, 3-lobed, lobes about equal, or 

 the middle one broader, entire or emarginate : stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, the inferior ones longer, ascending, arcuately-connivent 

 at the apex, shorter than the corolla or rarely exserted : anthera 

 2-celled, the connectivum often thickened, cells diverging or at 

 length divaricate, connective adnate : lobes of the style sometimea 

 equal, subulate, sometimes the upper one shorter the lower, elong- 

 attid, recurved, flattened : nuts dry, smooth. — Undershrubs or 

 herbs : verticillasters axillary or spicate, rarely cyme-like or aub» 

 jDanicled : flowers usually small, purplish or white. 



