650 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Micromeria. 



distant in slender spikes, lower pedunoled. M. Malcolmiana, Benth. in PL 

 Sohenack. n. 1402 ; Dalz. Sr Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 209. Marnibium Malcolmii, 

 Dalz. in Sooh. KeiD Journ. iv. 109. 



Behae; or Parnsnath, alt. 4500 ft., Clarice. Westeeit Himalaya; Behra 

 Doon, DiUMe. Westeen Ghats ; from the Concan to the Nilghiris, Wight, &c. 



Rootstock woody; stem 1-2 ft. Leaves |-1 in., ovate or oblong, flat; floral 

 small; petiole short. Bracts small. Flowers | in. Calgx villous; teeth long, 

 subulate, erect ; fruiting ^ in. — Very aromatic. 



2. ra. biflora, Benth. Lah. 378, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 220; glabrous, 

 hairy or puberulons, stems short dense leafy, leaves small sessile ovate snb- 

 acnte, whorls aiiUai-y small flew-fld. Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 129, 

 t. 134; Wight III. t. 176 bis, f. 5, and Ic. t. 1446. M. ovata, ^ec*. i» 

 Schimp. PL Iter Abyss, n. 12. Thymus biflorus, Sam. in WalL Cat. 

 1556, Don Prodr. 112 ; Benth. in WalL PL As. Bar. i. 31. 



Teokoal and Tempbeate Himaiata (exclusive of Sikkim) ; from Kashmir to 

 Bhotan, alt. 1-7000 ft. NiLftHiEi and Anamallat Hills. — Disteib. Aftghanistan, 

 Arabia, Abyssinia, S. Africa. 



Dwarf. Sootstock woody, stems or branches excessively numerous, 3-6 in., 

 fastigiate, filiform. Leaves ^^ in., margins thickened. JFlowers small, often soli- 

 tary, pedicelled. Cah/x hirsute, fruiting ^ in. ; teeth subulate, very variable in 

 length. 



3. nx. liydaspidis, Falc. mss.; Benth in DC. Prodr. sdi. 224; 

 pubescent, stem erect, leaves shortly petioled ovate obtuse subcrenate, 

 whorls spicate many-fld. shortly peduncled, flowers pedicelled. 



Westeen Kashmie ; Jhelum Valley from Patlee to Nashga Valley, Falconer. 

 Stem 10-18 in., erect, rather stout, subsimple. Leaves ^J in. ^ikes con- 

 tinuous or interrupted. Calyx | in. long, erect, puberulons ; teeth lanceolate. 



24. CAXiAIWXNTKA, Moench. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Whorls dense and axillary 

 or loose and panicled or spiked. Calyx 13-nerved, 2-lipped, upper lip 

 3-toothed, lower 2-fid, teeth narrower than of the upper ; throat naked or 

 villous. Corolla-tube straight, throat villous ; upper lip erect, flattish ; 

 lower spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4 (or 2 upper imperfect), asce'nding under 

 the upper lip ; anther-cells parallel or diverging. Style-lobes equal, or the 

 lower larger. Nutlets minute, subglobose, smooth, dry. — Species about 40, 

 of N. temperate regions. 



1. C. Clinopodium, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 233 ; erect, softly 

 hairy, whorls dense-fld., bracts filiform equalling the calyx, calyx-teeth sub- 

 equal in length all very slender. Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 579 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. 1. 1274, f. 1. Melissa Olinopodium, Benth. Lab. 392. Clinopodium 

 vulgare, Linn. 



Westeen Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-12,000 ft. — 

 DiSTBiB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, Canada. 



Mootslock woody, stoloniferous. Stem 1-3 ft., slender, subsimple. Leaves 

 remote, 1-2 in., ovate, subacute, subcrenate. Whorls terminal and axillary, |-1 in. 

 diam., depressed. Calyx ^ in. usually curved, hispid. Corolla |-1 in., purple, hairy. 

 — Wild Basil. 



2. C. umbrosa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 232 ; procumbent, laxly 

 hairy, whorls globose lax or dense-fld., bracts short or long, upper caljrx- 

 teeth with triangular teeth, lower with often longer subulate ones. Boiss. 



