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flowering deciduous ; verticals distant, 6-flowered ; calyx in fruit 

 deflexed, hispid. Caranjah Hill ; Deccan hills. Cultivated for the 

 roots, which are pickled, Law. Syn. Plectranthus forskolei, Willd. 

 sp. iii, p 169 ; P barbatus, Andr. Bot. Rep. t 594 ; P comosus, 

 Bot. Mag. t 2318 ; Ocimum asperum, Roth. nov. sp. p 268 ; P asper, 

 Spr. syst. ii, p 690 ; P monadelphus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 



2. C Zatahhendi, Benth Lab. p 50. — Leaves fleshy, rigid, 

 broadly ovate, acute-crenated, villous, truncate at the base. On 

 the sandy coast north of Bassein. Syn. Ocymum zatarhendi, 

 Forsk. Fl. ^gypt Arab. 109; Plectranthus crassifolius, Vahl. 

 Symb. i, p 44. 



8. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. 



1 . A Caenosus, Wall. PI As. rar. ii, p 1 8. — Stem erect, tetra- 

 gonal ; leaves petioled, ovate-rounded, obtuse-crenated, cordate at 

 the base, or rounded ; thick, fleshy, hoary and tomentose, or villous 

 on both sides; spikes long-peduncled, at length cylindric; floral leaves 

 ovate-obtuse; upper lip of calyx acute, glabrous, membranaceous, 

 ciUated on the margin. Rheed Mai. x, i. 90; Syn. Lavandula 

 carnosa, Linn. Amoen. x, p 56, t. 3 ; Plectranthus dubius, Spr. 

 syst. ii, p 69 1 . 



2. A Decussatcjs, Dalz. — Stem round, coloured, smooth below, 

 hoary above ; leaves on longish petioles, broad, ovate-acute, truncate 

 or cordate at the base, crenated, shortly tomentose beneath, 

 sprinkled on both sides with ruby-coloured glands ; spikes shortly- 

 cylindric, pointed on long-naked peduncles, brachiately disposed ; 

 floral leaves cordate-acute ; calyx densely woolly, upper lip deflexed, 

 rounded with a sudden point, lower truncate; corolla bluish-purple, 

 velvetty and villous ; anthers 4, perfect, blue ; stigmas 2, filiform, 

 acute. On the highest Ghauts opposite Bombay, in rocky places ; 

 flowers in August. A beautiful plant, the dark-red spike contrasting 

 well with the flowers. 



3. A Adenanthus, Dalz. — Spikes dense, pyramidal; floral 

 leaves lanceolate-acuminate, pubescent, 3-nerved, 3 lines long ; 

 calyx minute, oblique truncate, scarcely toothed, tomentose on the 

 outside ; corolla grandular-dotted, 6 lines long, tomentose outside, 

 lower lip long, entire, boat-shaped, upper 3 to 4-lobed, rounded, 

 obtuse, short. Near Dharwar; Bababooden hills. Unfortunately 

 the lower part of our specimens has been lost. 



9. LAVANDULA, Tournef. 



1. L Pekottetii, Benth. Lab. p 151 . — Softly villous; stems leafy ; 

 leaves deeply pinnatifid ; lobes oblong or linear-toothed, green on 

 both sides, villous ; floral leaves broadly ovate-acute, as long as 



