Pleeirmihiis.] cxii. labiate. (J. D. Hooker.) 621 



fld , panieled, corolla- tube very abort, lips very large, fruiting calyx hoary, teeth 

 subequal acute, nutlets oblong. Benth. Lab. 4.3, and in X>C. Prodr, "xii. 59, 

 var. a. ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 300. 



Western Himawta ; dry hills from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 3-8000 ft. Bhotan j 

 Griffith. Makwae ; on Mt. Abo, Stoclcs.—DisTms. Affghanistan. 



A shrub j branches slender, strict. Leaves 1 in. and less, leathery, finely reticu- 

 late above ; base subcordate, rarely acute ; petiole slender. Cyme^ in leafy racemes, 

 with slender peduncles and pedicels. Corolla ^ in., white, with rose or purple spots j 

 lips much longer than the tube, lower longest. Frniling eah/x i in. long, very 

 shortly 2-lipped. 



Sect. 2. Pyramidium, Fruiting oalyx erect, tubular, equally 5-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube decurved, base gibbous. Nutlets trigonous, ovoid-oblong, 

 acuminate. 



22. F. ternifolius, Dqu Prodv. 117 ; robust, densely white-tomentose, 

 leaves opposite and ternately whorled subsessile lanceolate acuminate serrate 

 rugose, cymes in dense long white villous panicles, corolla very short villous, 

 frniting calyx cylindric, teeth, subequal. Wall. Cat. 2748 ; Benth. in Lab. 

 44 ; in. Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 17, and in DO. Prodr. xii. 61 ; Sook. Ic. PI. 

 t 460. Ocimum ternifolium, Spreng. Sysi., Cur. post. 224. 



Tkopical Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 0-4000 ft. Khasia Mts., 

 nit. O-3O0O ft; ,Bbiioal, Assam. Behab, at Parusnath, J. D. M. — Dibtbib. 

 Burma, S. China. 



A bush, 3-5 ft., with strict erect branches. Leaves 3-7 in., thick, rugose, base 

 acute. Panieles cylindric, white; lower bracts leafy; flowers subsessile, densely 

 t-rowded. Corolla white, with pink spots at base of upper lip ; tube inflated, and 

 lips very short. Stamens included. iVuiting cali/x J-^ in., straight, erect ; teeth 

 rounded. Nutlets trigonous, acuminate. 



Sect. 3. Coleoldes. Fruiting calyx 2-lipped, upper lip large, rounded, 

 reflexed, very shortly 2-tootbed or entire ; lower with 3 acute, awned, or subu- 

 late pointed teeth. Corolla-tube deflexed or declinate, base gibbous or not. 



23. P. Incanns, Lin^ Fnum. Sort. Berol. ii. 120 ; herbaceous, pale, 

 hoary, stem subsimple, leaves large long-petioled broadly ovate-cordate 

 crenate, cymes lax-fld. racemose, corolla-tube short longer than the short 

 hemispheric lower lip, base not gibbous, fruiting calyx broadly campanulate, 

 lower lip longest, teeth with long points, nutlets large snbglobose. P. cor- 

 difolius, Don Prodr. 116 ; Benth. Lab. 36, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 16, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 66; Wall. Cat. 2736; Qrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 148; Dalz. 

 S[ Oibs. Bomb. FL 205. P. secundus, Boscb. Sort. Beng. 45, and Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 20. P. divaricatus, Weinm. in Syll. PI. Soc. Batisb. i. 68, and in Flora, 

 1826, 174. P. molhs, Spreng. Si/st. ii. 690. Ociraum moUe, Ait. Sort. Fern, 

 ii. 322. 0. mayporense. Both Nov. Sp. 271. — Bheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 84. 



Hills of CoNTiNEiTTAii INDIA, from the Himalaya (Simla to Sikkim), ascending 

 to 5500 ft., Kbasia Mia. and Centeal India, to the Anamallays. (Absent in 

 Ceylon and in the Malay Peninsula.) 



Whole plant usually hoary with very fine pubescence^ Stem robust below. 

 Lewoes 2-4 in., sometimes as broad; petiole as long or longer than the blade. 

 Corolla ^ in. long, slightly decurved, white pubescent. Stamens included. Fruiting 

 calyx J in. Nutlets ^ in. diam. — Lower lip of corolla longest of any Indian species. 



24. P. subincisus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 16, Lab. 36, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 66 ; glabrous or puberulous, stem short branched, leaves 

 long petioled orbicular ovate obtuse sinuate-orenate, corolla very small, tube 



