LABIATE. 489 



li"'-2"' long ; corolla exserted. — Hab. Trinidad I, Loclcli., common in savannahs and 

 ravines ; [Mexico ! to Venezuela I and Bolivia !]. 



**** Flowers in contracted cymes, subsessile or pedicellate. 



^ 13. H. suaveolens, Poit. Stout, pilose ; leaves petioled, ovate or inferior cordate, 

 duplicate-serrate or subsinuate, fioral minute, setaceous ; heads few-fiowered, shortly pc- 

 duncledf 'or subsessile, racemose-paniculate, and axillary ; calyx subsessile or very shortly 

 pedicellate, 10-costate : teeth subulate-setaceous, at length shorter than the tube, rigid, 

 spreading-erect. — SI. 1. 101./. 3. Br. Jam. t. 18./. 3 : analyt. Jacq. Amer. Fict. 1. 163. 

 I)esc. Fl. 6. t. 448. — Ballota, L. H. Plumieri, Poit. — Very variable, fragrant ; heads 

 5-2-flowered; calyx at length 5"'-3"' long; corolla pale-blue, shortly exserted. — Hab. 

 Jamaica 1, all coll., a weed, in gravelly soil ; Dominica !, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Or., in savannahs, 

 and cultivated as a mtediqal plant ; [Cuba I and Mexico ! to Brazil ! ; East Indies !]. 



14. H. pectinata, Poit. Virgate, puberulous or glabrescent ; leaves petioled, ovate, 

 unequally creuate-serrate (or serrate), hoary-pubescent beneath or glabrescent, floral seta- 

 ceous ; flowers one-sided in contracted, short, gyrate, recurved cymes : cymes racemose or 

 paniculate ; calyx shortly pedicellate, 10-striate, subequal ; tube shortly campanulale, 

 densely villous at the truncate throat : teeth setaceous, shorter than the tube, suberect. — 

 Ann. Mus. 7. t. SO.^Nepeta, i.— 6'-2' high; cymes 2"'-4"' diam, ; calyx-tube 1'" long; 

 flowers variegated-whitish. — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., a common weed, in arid soil; An- 

 tigua ! , Lane, Wullschl., Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Chiild. ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to 

 Uruguay t; trop. Africa!]. 



15. H. verticillata, tTizf:^, Virgate, paniculate, usually glabrescent; leaves shortly 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, serrate, floral setaceous or abortive; whorls 

 sessile, in interrupted racemes, inferior axillary; calyx pedicellate, equal; tube shortly 

 campanulate, glabrous : teeth ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the tube, erect. — Jacq. Ic. Bar. 

 t. 113. — Stachys patens, Sw. — 8'-l' high; whorls at length 4"'-5"' diam. ; calyx 1'" long ; 

 flowers small, whitish. — Hab." Jamaica !, Mac/., March, Wils., common ; [Haiti, S.Thomas I, 

 Mexico ! to Uruguay !]. 



5. MICROMBRIA, Benth. 



Calyx sube'qnal, 5-dentate, 13-nerved. Corolla 2-lipped : tube subincluded : lobes flat. 

 Stamens didynamous, distant, ascending : anther-ceUs 3. — "Whorls axillary or racemose. 



16. M. obovata, Benth. Shrubby, diffuse, pimpled and pubescent ; leaves small, 

 ohovate or ovate-rouudiah, revolute at the margin, entire, hoary beneath ; whorls 2-4- 

 flowered ; calyx subsessile : teeth short, subulate-lanceolate, bluntish ; corolla half as long 

 again as the calyx; anthers included: cells parallel; style exserted. — Colla Mipul. t. 25. 

 — Xenopoma, W. Satureja viminea, L. Zygia aromatica, Besv. — I'-IS' high; leaves 

 Z"i-5"', white corolla 8'" long. — Hab. Jamaica I, M'Sab, March, in the higher mountains ; 

 [Cuba!]. 



17. M. Brownei, Benth. Herbaceous, delicate, procumbent, glabrous (except the 

 ciliate petioles) or glabrescent ; leaves deltoid-roundish, obtusely few-serrate, whorls 

 2-flowered, ebraoteolate ; calyx pedicellate, hairy at the throat : teeth deltoid, bluntish ; 

 coroUa twice as long as the calyx ; anthers included i cells parallel. — Mart. Fl. Bras. 33. 

 t. 32. /. 1 . — Thymus, Sw. — Habit of Veronica hedcr<sfolia ; leaves 3"'-5"' diam. : petiole of 

 variable length ; pedicels filiform, about as long as the flower ; corolla 4"'-5"' long, pur- 

 plish-white. — Hab. Jamaica!, aU coll. ; [Florida! to Brazil !]. 



6. SALVIA, L. 



Calyx and corolla 2-lipped. Stamens 3 : filaments jointed with the elongated, transverse 

 connective, one branch of which is ascending, terminated by one auther-ceU, the other 

 usually descending, bearing the rudiment of the second cell. — "Whorls racemose or pani- 

 culate; in the West Indian species the corolla is devoid of an inner hair-ring, and the 

 connective is linear to the end of the descending branch. (Calosphace). 



