658 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Nepefa. 



specimens. Clarke makes of his a var. latihracieata with broader bracts than Bentham 

 describes. Habit of Bmnella. 



6. N. nervosa, Moyle ex Senth. in SooJc. Bot. Misc. iii. 378, Lai. 

 469j and in DC. Prodr. xii. 372 ; stem tall subsimple glabrous, leaves sessile 

 or sbortly petioled linear-lanceolate acuminate serrate, spike cylindrio 

 robust, bracts ovate or lanceolate mucronate, calyx sessile J in., teeth very 

 slender laxly villous. N. campestris, Herl. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



WESTBBir Temeebatb Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 6-10,000 ft.. Falconer, 

 Jacguemont, &c. 



Sootstoch long, woody. Stems 1-2 fb. Leaves 2-4 by J-| in., base rounded or 

 cordate. Spike stout, 1-3 in. Calyx membranous; teeth as long as the tube, 

 filiform. Corolla twice as long, pale bine. Stamens included. 



Var. lutea; flowers yellow. — Western Tibet; Karakoram, alt. 14,000 ft., 

 Clarice, 



6. N. campestris, Benih. Lab. 734, andinDC Prodr. xii. 372; stem 

 tall subsimple sparsely hairy, leaves sessile narrowly oblong-lanceolate sub- 

 acute serrate, spikes slender, bracts all ovate mucronate, calyx sessile f in., 

 teeth, very slender glabrous or ciliate. 



Western Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir, Jacquemont, to Knmaon, 

 alt. 7-9000 ft, Madden, &c. 



Closely allied to iV. nervosa, but the leaves appear to be always sessile (which 

 distinguishes it from N. spicata), the spikes are much longer and more slender, the 

 calyx-teeth more glabrous and divergent, and the corolla-tube more slender. 



7. N. elliptica, Ptoyle ex Benth. in SooJc. Bot. Misc. iii. 378, Lab. 

 470, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 373 ; stem branched villous, leaves subsessile 

 eUiptio oblong or oblong-cordate, tip roanded"or acute pectiuately crenate, 

 spike long slender often interrupted, bracts ovate or lanceolate awned, 

 calyx sessile J in., teeth filiform ciliate as long as the tube. N. polystacbya, 

 Benth. in JEEook. Bot. Misc. I. c. 



Western Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft. 

 Stem 1-2 ft., often flexuous, usually woolly. Leaves J-1 in., tomentose. Wlowers 

 very much as in iV". nervosa. 



8. N. Thomsoni, Benth. mss.; finely pubescent, stems short stout 

 very leafy, leaves sessile or shortly petioled oblong-cordate obtuse or acute 

 crenate, floral large, whorls in a dense ovoid or conical spike with large 

 leafy crenate bracts, calyx \ in. soaberulous, teeth ovate-lanceolate much 

 shorter than the tube. 



Western Tibet; Hanle, alt. 14,500-16,000 ft., Thomson. Eastern Tibet; 

 north of Sikkim, J. I). H. 



Stem a span to a foot high, stout, simple or with simple ascending branches 

 from the base. Leaves close set, 1-2 by J-| in.; petiole rarely J in.; floral 

 similar. , Spike of dense approximate superposed whorls with green elliptic bracts 

 far exceeding the calyces. Corolla not seen. Nutlets large, nearly ^ in., 

 suborbicular. 



9. N. supina, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosq. iii. 365 ; erect, branched, 

 finely pubescent, leaves small sessile ovate obtuse crenate, floral subsimilar 

 or narrow, whorls deuse-fld., lower axillary, upper in an ovoid spike, bracts 

 lanceolate, calyx ^ in. curved narrow villous, mouth very oblique, teeth 

 setaceous shorter than the tube, nutlets linear. Benth. Lab. 473, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 374 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 462. 



