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12. PHLOMIS. 
Herbs or shrubs with dense whorls of showy flowers. Calyx 
tubular, truncate, or 5-toothed. Upper lip of the corolla 
arched; the lower one spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, the 
filaments of the upper pair with an awl-shaped appendage at 
the base. A small genus from the Mediterranean region and 
temperate Asia. The origin of the generic name is obscure, 
but is said to come from Pdoyuos, a flame, in consequence of 
the down of some species having been used for wicks. 
1. Ph. fruticdsa. Jerusalem Sage.—A handsome shrubby 
species with lanceolate-ovate or oblong crenate acute leaves 
clothed with a yellowish down. Flowers yellow, in large 
axillary whorls or verticillasters in the axils of the upper 
leaves. A native of the South of Europe, flowering in Summer. 
2. Ph. Hérba-vénti. Wind Herb.—An herbaceous peren- 
nial from 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves thick, oblong-lanceolate, 
toothed and hairy. Flowers purple and violet; corolla villous 
outside ; calyx-teeth rigid and sharp. Also a native of the 
South of Europe. 
Ph. tuberdsa has purple flowers in which the upper lip of 
the corolla is bordered with a slender white fringe. Ph. Rus- 
selliana is clothed with a white down and has large whorls of 
yellow flowers. 
18. EREMOSTACHYS. 
A small genus of herbs with pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, 
distinguished by the upper lip of the corolla being elongated 
and narrowed at the base and hairy on the outside, and the 
lower lip with three spreading lobes. The species are natives 
of the Levant and North-western India. Name from ég nuos, 
solitary, and atdyus, a spike. 
1. EL. laciniata.—A striking plant from 3 to 4 feet high 
with hairy pinnate leaves. Leaflets irregularly lobed and 
toothed. Flowers in a terminal bracteate spike, purple and 
yellow. A native of Western Asia, flowering in Summer. 
E. Ibérica, from the same country, has less hairy leaves and 
yellow flowers. 
14. TEUCRIUM. 
Herbs or undershrubs with the flowers in bracteate spikes or 
racemes of whorls. Calyx tubular-campanulate, equally or 
unequally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, naked within; limb 
unequally 5-lobed, the 2 uppermost very short, and the central 
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