Geleus.] cxii. labum. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 



Cbtion ; Central Province, alt. 6-8000 ft., Macrae, &c. 



Stem stout, green. Leaves 2-5 in., petiole 1-2 in. Racemes or branches of the 

 panicle 3-6 in. j pedicels short. Corolla 1 in. long, pale lilac, slightly decurvpd at the 

 middle, tube slender, as long as the cyUndrio throat, lips very short, upper crenate 

 larger than the small ovate acute lower. 



10. il.ITXS.OCHXX.US, Wall. 



Herbs or underslirubs. I^lowers small, in dense oblong 4-gonal or oylin- 

 dric spikes. Calyx suberect, inflated below the middle, 2-lipped or 5-toothed, 

 rarely l-lipped, upper lip entire and deflexed or short and S-crenate. Corolla 

 2-lipped ; tube slender, decurved ; tbroat inflated ; upper lip short, entire 

 or 3-4-fid ; lower elongate, concave. Stamens 4, filaments free. Style 2-fid. 

 Z)i8c lobed. — 'DiSTRiB. Species about 16, Asiatic. 



* Fruiting calyx with the upper lip large, broad, entire, deflexed, con- 

 cealing the mouth, lower truncate ohscu/rely toothed. 



1. A. carnosus, Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 18, Cat. -2753; annual, erect, 

 glabrous or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate oblong or rounded obtuse 

 crenate fleshy, floral ovate obtuse, iruiting spiKes 4-gonous then cylindric 

 obtuse, calyx glabrous pubescent or ciliate, lip deflexed ovate acute ciUate. 

 Benth. Lab. 59, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 81 ; Wight III. 1. 176 b, f . 1 ; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 148 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 206. A. orassns, Benth. in. 

 DC. I. c. A. glaber, Schrad. Ind. Sem. Sort. Qoett. 1833, 1. A. rupestris, 

 Wight Cat. 2521. Plectranthus strobiliferus, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 45, and in 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 23. P. carnosus. Smith in Bees Cyclop, v. 27. P. dubius, 

 8pr. Syst. ii. 691. Lavandula carnosa, Idnn. Amcen. Acad. x. 56, t. 3. 

 Origanum watariense, le. Boxb. — Bheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 90. 



Westeen Himalaya ; Kumaon and Garwhal, ascending to 8000 ft., lSdgewort\, 

 and throughout Cbntbai. and Soitthben India to Travanoore and Cbyion. — 

 DiSTEiB. Ava. 



StemX-l, ft., stout, 4-angled. Leaves 2-3 in., rugose, sometimes densely tomen- 

 tose; petiole J-2 in. Spikes long-peduncled, 1-3 in. long, J-f in. diam. ; flowers 

 I in. long, pale purple. Ca2ya;-fe4e very variable in length, glabrous or ^pubescent; 

 upper lip sometimes with the tip erect throughout the spike. — A protean plant, the 

 varieties of which I fail to distinguish by good characters. 



Vab. piirpwrascens, Benth., from Ava, has narrow purple cylindric spikes and 

 vei'y short calyces. 



Vaee. glabrior and villosior, Benth., explain themselves. 



Vae. e. ? viridis, Benth. {A. rupestris, Wight), is founded on an immature 

 plant with the habit ol A. eriocephalus. A. crassus, Benth., differs in no way from 

 the type. 



2. A. scaber, Benth. in DO. Prodr. xii. 81 ; shrubby, hoary-tomen- 

 tose, leaves small petioled oblong obtuse crenulate thick, peduncles very 

 long stout, spikes 1-3 oblong, calyx pubescent, lip deflexed ovate obtuse 

 ciliate. 



Deooan Peninsttla; Courtallum, Wight. 



Branches short, stout, ascending from a woody stem. Leaves 1-1} in., densely 

 tomentose beneath, peduncles 6-12 in. ; spikes 1-li by i in., purplish when dry. 

 Calgm-tttbe very short ; upper lip glabrous except the ciliate margins. 



3. A. eriocephalus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 81 ; herbaceous, 

 glabrous or puberulous, leaves petioled broadly ovate or cordate crenate, 

 peduncles slender, spikes many ovoid or cylindric, calyx villous or woolly, 



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