Staahys.] oxii. labiate. (J. D. Hooker.) 677 



ceolate or linear' entire or irregularly lobed, whorls 1-2- fld. all axillary. 

 Stachys, n. 8, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Westeen Tibbt and Nobthebn Kashmie, alt. 10-14,000 ft. j Thomson, &c.— 

 DiSTEiB. Kashgar. 



Rootstooh stout, woody ; stems 1-2 ft., twiggy, much branched. Leaves i-lj in., 

 obtuse, narrowed into the petiole or sessile, green. Flowers sessile. Calyx | in., 

 campanulate, glabrous or villous; teeth as long as the tube, triangular ; tips long 

 pubescent, erect or spreading. Corolla J-1 in., long, pink, pubescent ; tube thrice 

 as long as the calyx ; upper lip long, narrow. Nutlets J in., broadly obovoid-oblong. 

 —Near the Persian S. macrocheilos, but the tube of the corolla is much longer than 

 the calyx. 



9. S. parviflora, SentJi. in BC. Prodr. xii. 490; densely clothed with 

 flocculent white wool, leaves sessile thick elliptic oblong or oblong-ovate or 

 -lanceolate subacute entire or serrate, floral far exceeding the flowers, 

 whorls distant 2-4-fld., calyx ^ in. densely woolly cupular, teeth short 

 acute, corolla very small. Boiss. Fl, Orient, iv. 740. 



Panjab Plains and Hills, from the Jhelum eastwards and northwards to 

 Murree.^DlSTElB. Affghanistan. 



Erect, branched from the base and upwards ', stem and branches very stout, nearly 

 terete. Leaves 1-3 in., extremely variable, glabrous and shining or cottony above, 

 upper woolly all over. Calyx immersed in wool, fruiting closed over the nutlets with 

 the teeth incurved. Corolla red-purple ; lips very small, upper short rounded. 

 Nutlets enclosed in the ovoid or subglobose calyx, usually 2, turgid, plano-convex, 

 J in. long, grey, granulate. 



40. eAZiEOPSXS, Linn. 



Annuals. Whorls many-fld., axillary and in terminal leafy spikes. 

 Calyx 5-nerved ; teeth 5, subequal, spinescent. Corolla-tube straight, not 

 annulate ; throat dilated ; upper lip arched, lower 3-fid, midlobe oboordate 

 or 2-fid; palate with erect teeth at the union of the lips. Stamens 4, 

 exserted ; anther-cells transversely 2-valved, inner valve rounded, oiliate ; 

 outer larger, naked. Nutlets rounded, compressed, subretioulate.^Species 

 3, Europe, N. and W. Asia. 



tr. Tetrabit, Linn. ; hispid, nodes thickened, calyx-teeth equalling or 

 exceeding the tube. Benth. in DC. Prod/r. xii. 198. Beichb. Ic. Fl. Gei-m. 

 1. 1231. 



SiKKiM Himalata ; fields at Lachen, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. S. — Disieib. 

 of the genus. 



Stem 1-3 ft., hairs spreading and deflexed, nodes very hispid. Leaves 1-4 in,, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrate. Calyx i-| in., teeth 

 straight. Corolla J-IJ in., yellow and purple. 



41. XiEONURirS, Linn. 



Erect, leafy, stout herbs. Leaves lobed. WTiorls axillary, dense-fld., 

 distant ; bracts subulate, flowers small. Calyx 5-nerved, turbinate ; teeth 

 5, spreading, spinescent. Corolla-tube naked or annulate within, upper lip 

 entire, erect ; lower 3-fid, midlobe oboordate. Stamens 4i ; anthers _ con- 

 niving, cells transverse. Style-lobes obtuse or subulate. Nutlets trique- 

 trous, truncate, smooth. — Species 10, Europe, Asia and' America. 



* Corolla-tube annulate within, upper lip flatfish, narrowed at the base, 

 lower spreading, midlobe entire. 



