558 



(3) A. Malabarica. (R. Br.} 



Ident. Dec. prod. XII. p. 456. 



Syn. Nepeta Malabarica, Linn. — Ajuga fruticosa, Roxh. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 864. — Bot. Mag. t. 2071. — Hoofei, 

 Journ. Bot. I. t. 127.— Rheede X. t. 93. ? 



Spec. Chak. Tonientose and villous : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 narrow at the base, serrato-crenate in the tipper part soft, tomentose, 

 or woolly : verticils many-flowered, dense, or cymes large, ^ at length 

 elongated ; floral leaves and bracts subulate, very soft : corolla rosy 

 qr purple, the throat hairy within. 



On the Ghauts. Peninsula. Flowering nearly all the year. 



(4) A. INTERMEDIA. (R. W.J 



Ident. Wight in Benth. Lab. p. 703. — Dec. prod. XII. p. 456. 



Spec Char. Tomentosely pubescent or villous : leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, cuneate at the base : verticils many-flowered, dense or 

 cymes large afterwards elongated : bracts subulate ; teeth of the- 

 lufsute calyx lanceolate at the base, subulate at the apex, very 

 soft. 



Pulney hills. 



GENUS XXV. STAGHYS. 

 Didynaniia Oymiiofiiperinfa. Sex > Syst: 



Deriv. From Stachys, a spike, the mode of inflorescence. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lO-ribbed with 6-nearly equal erect or 

 spreading pointed teeth : upper lip of the corolla erect, concave, 

 entire, lower lip longer, spreading, 3-lobed, lateral lobes ofteu 

 reflexed : stamens 4, in pairs under the upper lip : nuts smooth, 

 rounded at the top. — Herbs or shrubs : leaves often cordate : 

 flowers in verticils forming terminal racemes, spikes or heads. 



(1) S. oBLONGiFOLiA. {Benth.') 



Ident. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. I. p. 64. — Dec. prod. 

 XII. p. 474. 



Spec Ghar. Erect or ascendent, herbaceous, pubescent or vil- 

 lous : leaves short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, serrated, subcordate 

 at the base, floral ones longer than the calyx : verticils somewhat 

 6-flowered, distant : calyx pubescent, teeth lanceolate, very acute, 

 scarcely spinous : corolla a half longer than the calyx, tube en- 

 closed : flowers violet. 



, Khasia hills. Assam, 



