Lavandula.] cxii. labiate. (J; D. Hooker.) ' 631 



collected into simple or branched spikes. Cali/x erect, 13-15-nerved, 

 5-toothed. Corolla blue, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fld, lower 3-partite, lobes all 

 spreading. Stamens 4, deolinate, included, filaments free; antber-cells 

 confluent. Style 2-fid. Nutlets smooth.— Species about 20, chiefly 

 Mediterranean. 



1. Xi. Glbsoni, Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 149 ; villous, leaves pinna- 

 tifid, lobes oblong or' linear, spikes densely villous, bracts ovate-lanceolate. 

 Balz..Sc Oils. Somb. Fl. 206. L. Perrottetii, Benth. in DC. Prooh: xii. 

 147. L. Lawii, Wight Ic. t. 1439. 



The CoNOAN; hills at Sattara, Law, &e. 



Stem 2-3 ft., robust, leafy. ■ Leaves 4-8 in., lower petioled, lobea acute or 

 obtuse. Sfiiies few, 1-2 in., robust; bracts villous, l-fld., i in. Fruiting calt/x 

 1 in. long. 



2. Hi. Burmanni, Benth. Lab. 157, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 147; 

 pubescent, leaves pinnatiseet, segments linear simple or cut, spikes 

 pubescent, bracts subulate. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 149 ; Wight Ic. t. 1438 ; 

 Dak. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1438. Wawra, Itin. Pr. 8. Cob. Bot. 109. L. 

 multifida, Burm. Fl. Ind. 126 (excl. t. 38, f. 1), Bysteropogon bipinnatus. 

 Both Nov. 8p. 255. Chaetostachys multifida, Benth. in. Wall. PI. As. Bar. 

 ii. 19, and Cat. 2757. 



Dbocan Pbninshia ; common on the West from the Concan to Coorg. Cehteal 

 India; Jubbulpore, Seddome. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout or slender, simple or branched. Leaves 3-4 in. long and 

 broad; segments iV"^ i"- broad. Spikes solitary or few, or numerous and subumbel- 

 late ; bracts 1-fld., nearly glabrous, tips capillary. Corolla blue or white. Fruiting 

 calyx ^ in. long. 



12. POGOSTEDXON, Desf. 



Herbs or nndershrubs. Leaves opposite, very rarely 3-nately whorled. 

 Flowers small, in solitary or panicled spikes or contracted racemes formed 

 of many and dense-fid. subcapitate cymes (whorls). Calyx subequally 

 4-5-toothed. Corolla-tube eiserted or included; limb spreading, sub-2-lipped ; 

 lobes 4, lower usually longest. Stamens 4, exserted, straight or declinate, 

 filaments usually bearded; anther-cells confiuent. Disc subentire, equal. 

 Slyle 2-fid. Nutlets smooth, ovoid or oblong. — Species about 30, Indian and 

 B. Asiatic. 



* Spikes or racemes terminal and axillary, forming a panicled inflores- 

 cence. FUaments bearded in all. 



t Whorls forming continuous [rarely interrupted) spikes. 



1. P. paniculatuS; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 30, Lab. 153, and 

 in DO. Prodr. xii. 161 ; erect, branched, laxly hairy or villous, leaves petioled 

 ovate irregularly inciso-serrate, base cuneate, whorls globose seound in 

 slender spikes, bracts obliquely suborbioular membranous ciliate, calyx 

 narrow, teeth lanceolate ciliate, filaments bearded. Wall. Cat.lb&i; G^-ah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 149 ; Dalz. tf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 207. Elsholtzia paniculata, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 59. Hyssopus cristatus, Lamk. Diet. iii. 187. — Eheede 

 Eort. Mai. x. t. 65. 



Tenasseeim; Mabtaban and Tavoy, Wallich, &c. Peou ; M' Clelland. W. 

 Dbccan Penin siriA, from the S. Concan to Travancore. 



