672 cin. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Craniotome. 



Bar. L 64, Lab. 704, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 455; Wall. Cat. 2081. 

 Nepeta versicolor, Treuir. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 183. Anisomeles 

 nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 706. Ajnga f areata. Link Enum. ii. 99. 



TsMPEBAiB HntATrATA ; ftom Simla to Bhotan, alt. 5-7000 ft., Wallich, &c 

 Khasia Mts., alt. 4^000 ft. 



Usually densely patently softly hirsute all over. Stem erect, 1-2 ft., terete, 

 stout or slender. Leaves 2-4 by 1-3 in., broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, toothed or 

 crenate,- petiole slender, 1-2 in. CJ^me^ copious and very compound ; bracts subulate. 

 Calyx ^ in., teeth triangular. Corolla about twice as long, pale purple or rose- 

 coloured. Nutlets ji in., pale, shining. — In Sikkim a state occurs with the fruiting 

 calyx campannlate and J in. long, without nutlets. 



36. ANXSOMEIiES, Br. 



Tall, erect, branching, coarse herbs. Flowers in axillary whorls or laz-fld. 

 branched panicled cymes, purplish. Calyx ovoid or tubular, straight, 

 equally 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, annulate within ; upper lip erect, 

 entire; lower broad, spreading, midlobe notched. Stamens exserted; 

 anthers conniving, of the longer pair dimidiate, of the shorter 2-celled, cells 

 transverse parallel. Style snbequaUy 2-fid. Nutlets smooth. — Species 

 about 8, warmer Asia and Australia. 



1. A. Keyneana, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 59, Lab. 702, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xii. 455; sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, cymes pednncled lax-fld., calyx §-J in. hispid, 

 teeth triangular-lanceolate acuminate, margins fringed. Dalz. if Gibs, 

 Bomb. Fl. 210. Teucrium secundum, Meyne in Wall. Cat. 2028. 



Deccan Peninsttla ; Western Ghats, irom the Concan southwards. 



Stem 3—4 ft., acutely angled. Jicaves 2-3 in., green ; petiole J-J in. Cymes 

 sometimes elongate and many-flowered ; bracts small, subulate. Calyx-teeth strongly 

 reticulate, hairy within, margin fringed. Corolla \ in., white. Nutlets j'j in., 

 broadly oblong, polished. — Perhaps only a variety of A. ovata. 



2. A. ovata, Br. in Ait. Sort. Few, ed. 2, iL 364; tomentose or 

 densely woolly rardy sparsely hairy, leaves ovate acuminate crenate-serrate, 

 whorls axillary dense-fld. and in dense terminal spikes, calyx j-j in. hirsute, 

 teeth triangular-lanceolate acuminate. Wall. Cat. 2040 ; Jacq. Eclog. i. 

 t. 86; Sook. Bot. Misc. ii. 358, Suppl. t. 19 ; Benth. in Wail. PI. As. Bar. 

 i. 59, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 455; Grak. Cat. Bomb. PI. 153; Wight Ic. 

 t. 865. A. disticha, Seyne in Both Nov. Sp. 254 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 2 ; 

 Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 210. A. glabrata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 2041. 

 A. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 2039. Nepeta indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 799. N. 

 amboinica, Lirni. fil. Suppl. 273. N. disticha, Blume Bijd. 823. BaUola 

 disticha, Linn. Mant. 83. B. mauritiaua, Pers. Syn. ii. 126. Ajuga 

 disticha, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 2. Marrnbinm indicum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 227. 

 M. odoratissimum, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 71, f . 1. Monarda zeylanica, Burm. 

 Fl. Ind. 12. Phlomis alba, Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. i. 474. — Bheede Sort. 

 Mai. X. t. 88. 



Teopioal and Subteopical India, from the Iitdus to Assam, ascending the 

 Himalaya to 5000 ft., and south to Singapoee, Tbatancoee and Cetion. — Disteib. 

 Malay Archipelago, China, Philippines. 



Annual, 3-6 ft., most variable in hairiness. Leaves 1-3 in., thick, 6 in. green 

 and membranous in Sikkim specimens, white or green ; petiole i-lj in. WTtorls 

 many- and dense-fld. ; bracts variable. Coro22a purplish. Nutlets as in A. Seyneana. 

 — Order of Camphor. 



