(1) M. Malcolmiana. (Dais.) 



ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 209.— Hook. Journ. Bot. IV; 

 Y 109. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous : branches elongated, simple, slender, 

 villous: leaves small, shortly-petioled, ovate-obtuse, crenated, 

 pubescent on both sides : verticils of flowers distant, dichotomous- 

 ly cymose, peduncled, few- flowered, contracted into a kind of 

 umbel : flowers minute. 



On the banks of the Yeena, Mahableshwur. 



(2) M. capitellatA. (Benih.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. Xlt. p. 218. 



Spec. Char. Stem elongated, softly pubescent: leaves sbort- 

 petioled, ovate, somewhat flat, pale puberulous on both sides, upper 

 floral ones small : cymes densely many-flowered, subglobose, lower 

 ones longish peduncled : bract small : calyx small, ovate, subsessilej 

 pubescent, throat villous within : teeth short, erect, spreading. 



Neilgherries. , 



(3) M. BiFLORA. {JBenih.) 



Ident. Benth. Lab. p. 378.— Dec. prod. XII. p. 220. 



Syn. Thymus biflorus, Ham. in Von. prod. Aor. Nep. p. 112. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1446. — Decshe in Jacq. voy, t. 134. 



Spec. Char. SufFruticose, much branched, caespitose, branches 

 ascending, pubescent or pilose : leaves seSsile, ovate, acute, flat or 

 revolute at the margins, rigid, glabrous, subcordate at the base, 

 upper ones shorter than the flowers : verticils loose, few-flowered : 

 bracts equalling the pedicels: calyX pedieelled, subsecund, delicately 

 pubescent, throat villous within : flowers pale-reddish, or pink, 



Neilgherries. Khasia. Flowering all the year. 



GENUS XVII. CALAMmTHA. 

 Didynattiia Ctymnospennia. Sex-. Syst; 



iteriv. Prom Kalos, beautiful, and Mintha, mint. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular, with thirteen longitudinal parallel 

 ribs (two between the midribs of the lower teeth, and one only 

 between the midribs of the upper teeth), and five pointed teeth, 

 the 3 upper teeth more or less connected at the base into an upper 

 lip, the mouth more or less closed with hairs : corolla tube usually 

 longer than the calyx, upper lip erect and slightly concave, lower 



