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pne spreading with 3 broad lobes : stamens in pairs under tha 

 lipper lip, outer ones longest, but not spreading beyond the. 

 corolla. — Erect or ascending, branched herbs : leaves ovate, 

 toothed : cymes axillary, sometimes forming dense whorls, occa- 

 sionally loose and paniculate : flowers purpHsh. 



(1) C. UMBROSA. {Benth,.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 232. 



Syn. Clinopodium repens, b. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. I. 

 p. 66. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, diffuse, pubescent or villous : leaves 

 petioled, ovate, serrato-crenate, rounded at the base : verticils equal, 

 globose, many-flowered : bracts minute, or outer ones subulate, a 

 half shorter than the calyx : flowers purplislx. 



Mountains of the Peninsula. 



(2) 0. REPENS. {Bpith.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 233. 



Syn. Clinopodium repens, Benth. in Wall.. PI. As. Ear. I. p^ 

 66. Roxb.Jl. Ind. III. p. 13. — Thymus repens, D. Don. prod, jl, 

 Nep. — MeKssa repens, Benth. Lab. p. 392. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, diffuse, rooting at the base, pubescent 

 or villous : leaves petioled, ovate, serrato-crenate, rounded at the 

 base: verticils globose, many-flowered : bracts subulate, numerous, 

 Equalling the calyx ; flowers purplish. 



Assam, flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS XVin. HEDEOMA, 

 Didynamia C^ymnosperinia. Sex: Si/sti 



jDeriv. The Greek term for Mint. 



Gen. Ohab. Calyx ovate-tubular, 1 3-striated, 5-toothed, usually 

 2-lipped ; upper lip 3-toothed, lower 2-cleft : throat villous within : 

 tube of the corolla equalling the calyx, or shortly exserted ; limb 

 2-lipped, upper lip erect, entire, emarginate or somewhat 2-cleft;, 

 flat : lower one spreading, 3-cleft : stamens 2, (the lower ones) 

 fertile, ascending : anthers 2-celled : cells diverging or divaricate : 

 rudiments of the two upper ones more or sterile, short, subulate, 

 capitate : lobes of the style nearly equal, or the lower one elong- 

 ated and involving at the base the very short upper one : nuts 

 dry, smooth. — ^Herbs or undershrubs : leaves small, quite entire 

 .or subdeaitate : verticils loose, few-flowered, axillary, subapproxi- 

 j?iate in terminal racemes. . 



