632 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pogostemon. 



Stem a-5 ft., rather flexnous. Zeaees 3-5 in., very membranous ; petiole short 

 or long. Sjiiket 4^ in. ; whorls ^ in. diam. ; bracts very variable, shorter or longer 

 than the calyces, regularly second and imbricate. Cab/x ^-^ in. long, membranous ; 

 teeth variable in length. — P. comosas, Miq., of Java, is very near this. 



2. P. Gardner!, ^00^./. ; erect, stent, viUons.leaveBloiig-petioIed ovate 

 inciso-crenate, base cuneate, whorls globose in stout dense spikes, bracts 

 oblong-lanceolate membranous cUiate, calyx-teeth short broad ciUate. 



NlXGHlBl Mts. ; Wynaad, Wight, Gardner. 



Very near P. pamculattu, bnt much stouter, more villous, leaves longer petioled, 

 whorls denser, bracts much narrower, not : so unilateral and regularly secund and 

 imbricate, and calyx shorter with broader teeth. 



3. P. plectrantboides, Desf. in Ann. Mus. ii. 156, t. 6 ; shrubby, 

 hoary-pubescent, leaves petioled ovate acute doubly-toothed or -serrate, 

 ■whorls subsecund crowded in large stout spikes, bracts ovate glandular 

 exceeding the hirsute calyx, calyx-teeth shortly triangular-lanceolate ciliate. 

 Wall. Cat. 1630; Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 31, Lah. 153, and in 

 DC. Prodr. lii. 151; Dalz. S( Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 207; Bot. Mag.t. 3238. 

 P Origanum benghaleuse, Burm. Fl. Ind. 128, t. 38, f. 3. ? 0. indicum. Both 

 Nov. Sp. 265. Mentha secuuda, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 41. ? M. fruticosa, 

 Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 6 (not of his drawings). 



TVestee>- HiMAiATA, from Xepal to Simla, alt. 1-5000 ft. Loweb Bek&al and 

 Behab ; Fatna and top of Parnsnath, J. D. S., &c. The CosCAS, Canasa and the 

 ClBCABS. 



A large bush ; branches round, often dark purple. Leaves 3-6 in., longer than the 

 petiole. Panicle usnally elongate, whorls distant or continent, silkily villous. CdU/x 

 subcylindric, ^ in., silky, ciliate. Corolla pink or white. — Roxburgh's description of 

 Mentha Jruticosa agrees with this, but his drawing represents a different plant with 

 glabrous filaments. 



4. P. villosns, Benth. Lab. 153, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 162 ; stout, 

 erect, villous all over, leaves large long-petioled ovate acute crenulatfe or sub- 

 sinuate and crenate, whorls crowded in cylindric panicled stout spikes not 

 secund, bracts ovate equalling the villous calyx, calyx silky or villous, teeth 

 shortly lanceolate. ? Elscholzia viUosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii 4. 



SmHET; Wallich. 



There are two forms of this in Herb. Wallich, both with leaves 5—7 in. long and 

 2—4 broad ; one is more robust with exactly ovate finely crenulate leaves ; the 

 other is more villous, and has broader sinuate and obscurely crenate leaves, and much 

 more numerous denser and shorter branched panicles. In both the whorls form con- 

 tinuous cylindric spikes 2-3 in. long and \ in. diam. Calyx ^ in., sessile, narrow. 



5. P. purpurascens, Dah. in Hook. Kew Joum. ii. 337 ; erect, 

 branched, softly villous with spreading hairs, leaves long-petioled large 

 membranous ovate or ovate-lauceolate sinuate or cut and toothed or crenate, 

 base narrowly cuneate, whorls dense-fld. globose secund continuous or 

 separate in long peduncled hirsute spikes, bracts narrow falcate equalling 

 the calyx ciliate, calyx tubular, teeth long-subulate ciliate. Dalz. S( Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 207. 



The CoKCAN and Can'aba ; Law, &e. 



H-'bit and villosity of P. G-ardneri, but the calyx-teeth are much longer and more 

 slender. Stem 4-angled. Leaves sometimes 9 in. long. Spikes sometimes as long. 

 Calyx I in. long. Corolla white, with purple upper lip. — Probably a large form of 

 P. paniflorus. 



6. P. parvlfloros. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 31, Lab. 154, and 



