Brunella.] oxii. labiate. (J. D. Hooker.) 671 



4-11,000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000. Nii&hiei and Tbatancoee Mts., alt. 

 6-8000 ft.— DiSTEiE. N. Temp. Zone, Andes, Australia. 



Bootsfoeh creeping. Stem 4-12 in., erect or ascending. Zeaves 1-2 in., upper 

 sessile. Spikes 1-3 in., cylindric ; bracts ovate-cordate, ciliate, edges often purple. 

 Flowers dimorphic, larger 2-sexual, smaller female. Calyx-teeth very variable, awned 

 or not. Corolla i-| in., purple or white. 



\ is,.' vulgaris; glabrous or sparingly hairy. —Himalaya Mts. 



Vab. hispida, Benth. in DC. I. c; h'ispldly hairy. B. hispida, Senth. in 

 Wall. PI. As. Sar. i. 66. B. ovata. Wall. Cat. 2133.— Sikkim, Khasia and 

 Kilgbiri Mts. 



34. niAXlRUBXITni, lAnn. 



Perennial tomentose or woolly herbs. Whorls axillary, flowers small. 

 Cali/x tabular, 5-10-nerved ; teeth 5-10, equal, short, subspinescent. 

 Corolla short, tube naked or annulate within, upper lip erect, lower 

 spreading, midlobe largest. Stamens 4, included ; anthers glandular, cells 

 diverging. Style-lobes short, obtuse. Nutlets obtuse. — Species 30, tem- 

 perate and warm regions of the Old World. 



1. DX. Tulgrare, Linn. ; tall, robust, shortly woolly, leaves petioled 

 ovate or orbicular crenate rugose, whorls axillary many and dense-fld., 

 calyx-teeth 10 subulate spreading and recurved, throat woolly. Senth. in 

 DC. Prodr. xii. 153; Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 703; Ueichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 1. 1224, f. 1. M. propinquum, Benth. in DC. I. c. (the Kashmir plant). 



Westben Tempeeate Himalaya; Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft., JPaZooBe?-. — Disteib. 

 Westward through Europe and N. Africa. 



Stem 2-4 ft., leafy. Leaves J-IJ in. diam., base rounded or cordate or cuneate, 

 leathery, wrinkled; petiole J-j in. Who'rls depressed, villous. Calyx ^-| in., 

 coriaceous ; teeth often hooked at the tip. Corolla \ in., white, tube slender, upper 

 lip long, 2-fid. Nutlets .^ in., smooth. 



2. lU. lanatum, Benth. Lab. 687, and in DO. Prodr. xii. 448; dwarf, 

 clothed with long soft white wool, leaves petioled rounded lobed and 

 crenate or §-pinnatifid, whorls in a dense terminal cylindric or oblong 

 thickly woolly spike, calyx-teeth 5 aoicular spreading and recurved, throat 

 naked. Mollucella Marrubiastrum, Steph. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. ii. 8 ; 

 Ledeb. Ic. PI. Fl. Boss. Alt. t. 150. Lagopsis incana, Bunge Monog. 

 Molucc. ined. 



Westeen Tibet, alt. 15-16,000 ft. ; Thomson, Menderson. Noethben 

 Gtjbwhai ; at Shelshil, alt. 16,000 ft., Straohey S( Winterlottom. Disteib. Turkestan 

 and Altai Mts. 



Stems many, ascending from the stout rootstock, stout, 3-6 in. Leaves very thick, 

 i-1 in. diam. ; petiole stout, as long or shorter. Spikes 1-2 in., 1 in. diam. ; flowers 

 immersed in wool ; bracts linear or setaceous. Calyx-tube ^ in., membranous, teeth 

 as long, pungent. Corolla very small, upper lip short, entire. Nutlets -^^ in. long, 

 hoary. 



35. CRANXOTOItXE, Beichb. 



k. perennial erect branched herb. Leaves long-petioled. Flowers 

 minute, in slender lax-fld. panicled racemes. Oalyx ovoid, fruiting globose, 

 equally 5-toothed ; throat constricted, villous within. Corolla, upper lip 

 minute, concave, entire ; lower longer, spreading, 3-fid. Stamens ascending 

 under the upper Up; anther-cells didymous, at length diverging. Style 

 subequally 2-fid. Nutlets very minute, subglobose, smooth. 



C. versicolor, Beichb. Iconogr. i. 39, t. 54; Benth. in Wall. PI, As. 



