610 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [_Geniosponm. 



coloured ; flowers small or minnte. Calif x ovoid in flower, in fruit tubular, 

 saberect or declinate, 5-toothed, upper tootb broadest, not decurrent; 

 lateral free, or connate with tbe upper ; lower short, free or connate. 

 Corolla-tube short, upper lip 4-fid, lower declinate entire. Filaments free, 

 toothless. Disk tumid, gibbous. Style-arms short, flattened. Nutlets 

 ovoid or oblong, smooth or punctulate. — Species 6 or 7, Indian and African. 



1. G. strobiliferum, Wall. Cat. 2749 ; erect, puberulons, leaves 

 petioled lanceolate coarsely serrate, floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting 

 calyces erect, throat glabrous. Benth. Lab. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 45 ; 

 Moolc. Ic. PI. t. 462. Plectranthus coloratus, Don Prodr. H6.^Labiata, 

 Griff. Itin. Notes, 82, n. 1192. 



SiTBTEOPicAL HiMAi/AYA ; in dry forests from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 1-5000 ft. 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 3-5000 ft., common. 



Stem 2-3 ft., obtusely angled. Leaves 2—5 by 14—2 in., base acute or rounded, 

 narrowed into the petiole of i-| in. Spikes 2-5 in. ; bracts white, deciduous. 

 Flowers i in. long. Calyx pubescent, with 2 black glands on the lower lip. Corolla 

 white with purple veins, haii-y, lower lip narrow. Filaments ex^erted. Fruiting 

 calyx tubular, pedicelled, | in. long, deeply pitted. Nutlets ellipsoid, black, smooth, 

 hispid towards the top. 



2. G. elongratum, Benth. Lah. 21, and in DG. Prodr. xii. 45 ; erect 

 or ascending, pubescent, stems very slender, leaves subsessile narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, lower floral exceeding the flowers, fruiting calyces spreading, throat 

 naked. Thwaites Enum. 236. Ehiuanthus indica, Linn. ; Barm. Fl. Ind. 

 131, t. 39, f. 1. 



NoBTHBEir ClBCABS ; Jeypur Hills, Seddome. Cetlon ; Central Province, in 

 grassy places, alt. 4—6000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., angles thickened. Leaves in distant pairs, 1—2 by J— ^ in., crenate- 

 serrate, base narrowed. Spikes 3—5 in. ; bracts orbicular-ovate, subpersisteut ; 

 flowers ^ in. long. Calyx hirsute. Corolla very small, hairy. Filaments exserted. 

 Fruiting calyx .f^ in. long, ovoid, strongly ribbed, pitted, lobes short. Nutlets ellips- 

 oid, smooth. 



3. O. prostratum, Benth. in PI. As. Bar. ii. 18, Lab. 21, 708, andin 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 45; prostrate, stems slender glabrous pubescent or hirsute, 

 leaves small sessile or petioled obovate-lanceolate or oblong or linear 

 sparingly toothed, fruiting calyces spreading shorter than their pedicels, 

 calyx-throat with a ring of hairs. Wall. Cat. 2761 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 

 148 ; Thwaites Enum. 237. Ocimum menthoidea, Burm. Fl. Ind. 129. 0. 

 prostratum, Linn. Mant. 166. O. macrostaohyum, Poir. Suppl.i. 492; 

 Benth. Lab. 16. 0. tenuiflorum, Set/ne in Serb. Rottl., not of Benth. ? of 

 Linn. Mentha ocimoides, Lamk. Diet. iv. 103. Elsholtzia ocimoides, 

 Pers. Syn. ii. 114. Lumnitzera prostrata, Sprenij. Syst. ii. 687. Thymus 

 indicus, Biirm. Fl. Ind. 129.— Mentha, Burm. Tkes. Zeyl. 158, t. 70, f. 2. 



Deccan PekinsuIiA, from the Concan southwards. Cetlon ; warmer part of 

 the island. 



Stems many from a woody stock. Leaves in distant pairs, very variable, from 

 ^ by J in. to 2 by | in., rather thick, base narrowed. Spikes elongate, slender; 

 whorls close or distant; bracts ovate, acute, reflexed; flowers minute, pedicelled. 

 Calyx hairy, upper lip very variable in size, throat hairy. Corolla ,\ in., hairy. 

 Filaments exserted. Fruiting calyx ,'3 in., subeampanulate, ribbed, tube not pitted, 

 pubescent. Nutlets extremely minute, ellipsoid, smooth, naked. 



Vae. gracilis, Thwaites Enum. 237 j stems very slender, 12-18 in. , leaves glabrous, 

 nan-ower. G. gracile, Benth. Lai. 21, and in D C. Frodr. xii. 45. — Deccau PeuinBula 

 and Ceylon. 



