638 cxiL LABiATJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dysophylla. 



minute, ovoid, equal, 5-tootlied, throat naked within. Corolla minute, tnbe 

 exserted or included ; limb equally 4-fid ; upper lobe entire or 2-fid, lower 

 spreading. Stamens 4>, exserted, straight or subdeclinate ; filaments very- 

 long, bearded ; anther-cells confluent. Disc equal, snbentire. St^le 2-fid. 

 Nutlets smooth or rough, ovoid or oblong. — Species about 12, Tropical 

 Asiatic and Australian. 



* Calyx-tube terete or obscurely angled. 



t Leaves opposite. 



1. D, myosuTOldes, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 30, Lah. 157, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 156 {all in part); perennial, erect, sUkily tomentose, 

 branches woody, leaves subsessile linear-oblong obtuse denticulate, spikes 

 very slender 3-5 in. by J in. diam. tomentose, calyx-teeth very short trian- 

 gular. Wall. Cat. 1547 ; Balz. If Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 208. Mentha myosa- 

 roides, Both Nov. Sp. 257. M. venulosa, Serb. Heyne. 



Deccan Peninsula, Heyne, Wight ; Bababoodan Hills and Copper Mts., Bellary, 

 Law, Stocks. 



Stem erect, 8-12 in., from a large woody rootstock, terete. Leaves Hi by 

 ^ in., thick, silkily pubescent on both surfaces. Spikes very slender, shortly peduncled, 

 flexuous. Calyx ^ in., densely tomentose, fruiting hardly enlarged, teeth erect iti 

 fruit. Corolla minute, glabrous ; tnbe included. Nutlets ellipsoid, compressed, granu- 

 late. — Bentham's var. bracteata is founded on a young spike with the bracts protruded. 



2. D. rugrosa, Sook. f. ; perennial, erect, appressed, fulvous-wooUy, 

 branches woody, leaves subsessile linear-oblong obtuse snbentire, spikes 

 slender 2 in. by J in. diam. tomentose, calyx-teeth very short triangular. 

 D. myosnroides, Benth. II. c. in part. Mentha rugosa, Serb. BLeyne. 



Dbccan Peninsula; Mountains of Tinnevelly, Seddome; at Pallamcotta, 

 Seyne. 



Very closely allied to D. myosuroides, and confounded with it by Wallich and 

 Bentham ; of the same size and habit, but not at all silky ; form of leaves the same, 

 but nerves more spreading, spikes much shorter and thicker. — Heyne seems to have 

 distinguished the two from the names quoted by Wallich, of which that of M. rugosa 

 is attached to a specimen in Bottler's Herbarium, no doubt collected by Heyne 

 himself. 



3. X>. salicifollaj Dalz. mss.; stem and young leaves appressedly 

 pubescent or silky, leaves sessile or petioled linear-lanceolate subentire or 

 remotely serrate, spikes slender 2-4 in. villous, calyx villous short, teeth 

 triangular almost equalling the tnbe. Dysophylla sp. 8, Serb. Ind. Or. 

 S.f. Sf T. 



The CoNOAN ; Mahableshwur Hills, Gibson ; Hingregee Watercourse, Belganm, 

 Mitchie ; Bombay, Lalzell. 



Stem 1-2 ft., much branched ; branches slender, erect, woody. Leaves 1-3J in., 

 rather membranous. Spikes |-| in. diam., on slender peduncles ; whorls confluent. 

 Calyx in fruit ^ in., with erect teeth. Corolla-tube exserted, lobes sparsely'hairy. 

 Nutlets ellipsoid, obtusely 3-gonous, shining. 



4. !>■ auricularia, Blume Bijd. 826; annual, hirsute or viLLons, 

 leaves sessile or shortly petioled oblong serrate, spikes 2-3 in. villous, calyx- 

 teeth triangular incurved in fruit. Benth. Lab. 158, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. 

 i. 30, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 156; Wall. Cat. 1548; Wight Jp. 1. 1445; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 150. Mentha auricularia, Linn. Mant. 81 ; Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 4 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 200. M. f ostida, Barm. Fl. Ind. 126. 



