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GENUS XX. NEPETA. 



ibitlynamia CyiiiiiOBpennla. Sex: St/irt.- 



beriv. From NepU, a town in Tiiseany wh6re the plants 

 Vere first discovered. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tuWlai-, 1 5-ribbed, mouth oblique, 5-tootlied, 

 upper teeth usually longest : tube of the corolla elongated, throat 

 enlarged, upper lip erect, slightly concave, notched or 24obed : 

 lower lip spreading, 3-lobed : stamens in pairs under the upper 

 lip, lipper Or inner pair longest. — Erect or creeping herbs : flowers 

 in axillary whorls or terminal spikes, usually blue. 



(i) N. BoMBAiENsis. (Duh.j 



ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 209. 



Spkc. Chab. Branched, 1 foot high : stem quadrangular, pubesj 

 cent : leaves long-petioled, softly villous on both sides, cordatej 

 ovate-obtuse, crehated : flowers axillary, peduncled :. peduncle a* 

 Itang as the petiole, with about 5-pedicelled ilowers, subtended by a 

 pair of lanceolate-acute bracts: calyx pilose, deeply ribbed, upper lip 

 inuch longer than the lower, of 3-acute ciliate teeth ; lower 2- 

 subulate teeth, increasing with the fruit : corblla small, pale-blue 

 with purple spots. 



Old walls and rocks on Sewnere Fortj flowering in July and 

 August. 



(^) N. RutiERALis. (itam.) 



Ident. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. I. p. 64.-^Dec. prod. XUJ 

 p. 381. 



Syn. Glechoma erecta, Boxh. — G. ,Hindostana, Roth. — G. Indi* 

 cum, Spreng. — Thymus Nepetoides, Don. prod. flor. Nep. p. 113. 



Spec. Char. Annual^ suberectj slightly pubescent: leaves 

 petioled, ovate, obtuse, crenated, cordate at the base, pubescent on 

 both sidesj green or scarcely hoary : racemes somewhat simple, 

 secund : cymes dense, lower ones peduncled : bracts subulate, outer 

 ones equalling the calyx or a half shorter : mouth of the pubescent 

 ftalyic obliqtie ; teieth Subulate, the upper cines longer : corolla longer 

 than the Calyx : nuts smooth or minutely granular : flowerij 

 purplish. 



Rsgmahal. Hindostan. Foot of the Himalayahs, and plains ■Jf 

 JJorthetn, India. Pectan, Flowering neatly all the year. 



