652 cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Melissa. 



2. in. flava, Benth. Lab. 394, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 65, and in DC 

 Prodr. xii. 241 ; calyx nearly § in., corolla yellow, tube longer than the 

 calyx. Wall. Cat. 2126. 



Nepai, Wallich ; Kttmaon, alt. 7600 ft.. Madden, Strachey ^ Winterbottom. 

 Bhotan, Crrifflth. 



I mnch doubt this being more than a variety of M. parviflora. It is, however, 

 a larger plant. 



26. PEROWSK.ZA, Zarel. 



Erect, branched, strong-scented, rigid, hoary and scnrfy, dioecious nnder- 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, incised or crenate. Whorls small, distant, in simple 

 or compound or panicled spikes, 2- or more-fld. ; flowers small. Calyx short, 

 terete; lips short, upper minutely 2-3-toothed, lower 2-toothed. Corolla 

 2-lipped, tnbe exserted, with a ring of hairs within, lower lip oblong entire, 

 npper broad spreading erect 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 lower fertile, erect, diverg- 

 ing; 2 upper minnte, imperfect; anther-cells linear, parallel. IHsk swollen 

 behind. Style-lobes acute. Nutlets pyriform, smooth, dry. — Species 4 or 5, 

 Central Asiatic. — Genns of doubtful aflSnity. 



1. P. atriplicifolia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xiL 261 ; densely clothed 

 with white stellate scurf, leaves oblong-ovate or lanceolate crenate-serrate 

 or incised, calyx hispid. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 589. 



Westeen Tibet, Falconer; Lahnl, Oapt. Hay ; Karakoram and Iskardo, alt. 

 7500-10,200 ft., Clarice. — Disteib. Affghanistan and Beluchistan. 



A rigid herb, 2-3 ft., panicalatsly branched. Leaves 1-2 in., rigid, rngose. 

 Whorls 2-8-fld. Calyx J in. Corolla twice as long. — I doubt this being more than 

 a form of the following. 



2. P. abrotanoides, Kiril. in Bull. Mosq. 1841, 15, t. 1 ; densely or 

 sparsely clothed with white or grey stellate scurf, leaves linear-oblong 

 incised or pinnatisect, calyx clothed with long cottony wool. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 389. 



Westben Tibet, alt. 8-13,000 ft., Thomson, &c. — Distbib. Afighanistan, 

 Persia, Turcomania. 



A much-branched twiggy shrub or nndershrnb, 2-4 ft. high, woody below, with 

 the habit of a Lavandula. Leaves 1—2 in., sometimes bipinnatisect, crenatnres or 

 lobes or segments obtuse. 



27. IttERXANDRA, Benth. 



Shrubs smelling of sage, hoary or woolly. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong, crenulate, rugnlose above. Whorls many, dense-fld., large and in 

 terminal broad spikes or small and in panicled caUdn-like spikes with 

 closely imbricating bracts ; flowers small. Calyx ovoid, upper lip concave, 

 subentire ; lower 2-fid ; throat naked. Gorolla-tube short, equally 4-fid ; 

 lobes flat, upper entire or 2-fid. Stamens short, stout ; 2 lower fertile erect 

 distant, one or both of upper imperfect ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, 

 pendulous. Style 2-lamellate. Nutlets obovoid, smooth, brown. — The fol- 

 lowing are the only species. 



1. ni. strobilifera, Benth. Lab. 188, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 29, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 262; flocculently woolly, spikes 4-angled with imbricat- 

 ing appressed bracts. Wall. Cat. 1527 ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 301. 



Westeen Tempebate Himalaya ; on dry rocks from Simla to Kumaon, 

 alt. 5-6000 ft. 



