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broadly ovate-acute, cuneate at the base, doubly-serrated, wrinkled, 

 softly villous on both sides; lowest verticels sessile in the axils of the 

 upper leaves, upper terminal, simply spicate, approximated ; bracts 

 under the calyx ovate-acute, leafy, reticulately veined, equal to the 

 calyx ; calyx pentagonal, villous ; segments triangular subulate, 

 3-nerved. Common in shady woods in the Concan ; leaves 4 to 5 

 inches long, 2 to 2| broad. 



1 1 . DYSOPHYLLA, Blume. 



1. RuPESTRis, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. — Perennial, erect; 

 stems round, woody, 3 to 4 feet high ; leaves 4-fold, spreading, 

 short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, serrated, rugose, downy, 2 to 3 

 inches long ; spikes terminal solitary, cylindric, covered with 

 innumerable small rose-coloured flowers; corol tube twice the 

 length of the calyx; segments reflexed. Near Vingorla. Syn. 

 Mentha quadrifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 5. Grows on dry ground, 

 and is quite distinct from D quadrifolia of Beutham, for which 

 Roxburgh's plant is given as a synonym. 



2. ToMENTOsA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 337. — Softly 

 tomentose all over, with spreading hairs ; stem creeping ; branches 

 several, simple, erect ; leaves verticelled, 6 to 9 together, linear- 

 acute, quite entire, much longer than the internodes, covered 

 beneath with scattered glands, margins revolute ; floral leaves of 

 the same shape ; calyx' tuberculate glandular, densely tomentose ; 

 segments triangular ovate-obtuse, shorter than the hairs ; stems 1 

 to 12 inches long; leaves 4 lines long. In rice fields near Malwan. 



3. Erecta, Dalz. loc. cit. — Stem erect-branched, rather hispid ; 

 leaves verticelled, 9 to 12 together, narrow linear-obtuse at the, 

 apex, papillose and rough on both sides, glandular-dotted beneath, 

 equalling the internodes ; floral leaves filiform, with a thick oblique 

 head, as long as the calyx ; calyx villous ; segments erect obtuse, 

 7 to 8 inches high ; leaves 7 to 8 lines long. Near Malwan. 



4. GiiACiLis, Dalz. loc. cit. — Stem erect, straight, 9 inches 

 high, sparingly branched above, rough, with soft spreading hairs ; 

 leaves verticelled in sevens, narrow linear-acute, longer than the 

 internodes, 4 lines long, distantly and minutely toothed towards 

 the apex ; floral leaves hnear-acute, densely ciliated, longer than 

 calyx and corolla ; upper tooth of the corolla the smaller and quite 

 entire. On the Ghauts. 



5. Myosmoides, Benth. inWall. PI. As. rar. 1, p30. — Tomen- 

 tose and silky ; stem erect ; leaves opposite, shortly-petioled, oblong 

 or lanceolate ; floral ones minute ; spikes dense ; calyx tomentose ; the 

 teeth very short, straight ; corolla minute, red. Beds of watercourses 

 at Mahableshwur. ISyn. Mentha myosmoides, Roth. nov. sp. p 257. 



