678 • cxn. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Leonunis. 



1. 3!i. Cardlaca, Linn. ; leaves lanceolate ovate or orbicular lacerate or 

 pinnatifid, corolla with the galea densely villona. Benth. in DC. Frodr. xiu 

 500; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 753 ; Iteichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1232, 1233. 



Tempeeate Wbsteen Himaiata ; from Kashmir to Kvimaon, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 

 — DlSTElB. Europe, N. Asia and Asia Minor. 



Sootstock stout. Stem 2-4 ft., stout, erect. Leaves very variable, close set, 

 radical long-petloled, 1-3 in. long, often as broad, base ounaate, lower sometimes 

 multifid, upper palmately lobed. Whorls very many ; bracts large, lower petioled ; 

 bracteoles subulate. Calyx J in., teeth triangular, spines long. Corolla J in, rosy 

 or white. Nutlets smooth. 



L. Cardiaca proper ; leaves cordate-ovate serrate or lacerate pubescent or villous 

 beneath. 



Vab. pulescens ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate coarsely serrate finely pubescent. 

 L. pubescens, £enth. in Wall. Fl. As. Rar. i. 63, and Lab. 518, and in DC. Proir. 

 xii. 499 J Wall. Cat. 2072. — Kashmir to Kumaon. 



Vae. Soyleana ; leaves ovate-lanceolate rhomboid or orbicular or obovate, base 

 rounded or cordate pinuatifidly cut white-tomentose beneath. L. Royleanus, Benth. 

 II. c. ; Wall. Cat. 2073. — Kashmir to Scinde. 



** Corolla-tube straight, not annulate; upper Up arched, lower sub- 

 erect or with the midlobe alone spreading obcordate or 1-fld. 



2. 3j. sibirlcus, Linn.; glabrous or pubescent, leaves pinnati- or 

 palmati-partite, segments linear incised, galea of coroUa pubescent. Benth. 

 inDO.Prodr. xii. 501; Wall. Cat. 2071; Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. 67, t. 94; 

 Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. iii. 204. L. ta-rtaricus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 127 ; Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. m. 8 (not Linn.). L. heterophyllus. Sweet I. c. ii. 197. Stachys 

 Artemisiae, Lour. Fl. Coch. 365. 



Plains of India ; from Bengal and Silhet to Coorg, indigenous ? — Disteib. Tropical 

 Asia, Africa and America. 



Annua). Stems 2-6 ft. Leaves 2-4 in., long-petioled, 3-multi-panite, upper 

 floral entire, all pale beneath ; petiole slender. Whorls numerous ; bracts equalling 

 tbe calyx, spinescent. Calj/x ^ in.; teeth spinescent. Corolla red. Stamens 

 exserted. Sutlets smooth (htepid, Benth.). 



42. IiAItXXVDI, Linn. 



Annual or perennial hairy herbs. Whorls axillaiy, many-fld. or in. leafy 

 heads, bracteoles or subulate. Calyx 5-nerved ; teeth 5, equal or the 

 upper longer. Corolla-tube annulate or not within, throat dilated; upper 

 lip arched ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe broad contracted at the base. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers conniving ; cells diverging. Style-lobes subulate. 

 Nutlets triquetrous, truncate, smooth, scaly or tubercled. — Species 40, 

 Europe, Temp. Asia and N. Africa. 



1. Xi. rhomboideum, Benth. Lab. 509, and in DC. Prodr. 504; 

 dwarf, densely softly velvety, leaves very large crowded rhomboid rugose 

 crenate, flowers very large, corolla thrice as long as tbe calyx, anthers 

 hirsute. Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t. 135. Erianthera rhomboidea, 

 Benth. in Sook. Bot. Misc. iii. 380. 



AiPHfE Webtebn Himalaya and Westeen Tibet; in stony debris from 

 Kashmir to Kunawur, alt. 12-15,000 ft. — Disteib. Affghanistan, Turkestan. 



Stem 6-12 in., very stout, often as thick as a goose-quill, more slender below where 

 it is sunk deep in tbe ground, flexaous, densely tomentose, rarely divided. Leaves, 

 lower small, upper 2-4 in. diam., base suddenly contracted into a very thick short 

 woolly petiole ; veins flabellate and reticulate, crenatures shallow or deep. Braots 



