694 cxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phlomis. 



DC. Prodr. xii. 545; nearly glabrous, leaves long-petioled membranous 

 elliptic or oblong-ovate acuminate minutely tootbed, whorls small, bracts 

 filiform, calyx ^ in. obconic-oampannlate glabrous or hispid, teeth very 

 slender from a triangular base. Wall. Cat. 2067. Gomphostemma mem- 

 branifolium, Miquel Jel. Ind. Sat. ii. 988. 



SiKKiM HiMALATA ; Pomong, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. S,, Clarie. KhasiaMts., 

 alt. 5-6000 ft. ; Wallich, &c. Uppbb Assam ; Mishmi Hills and Patkoje Mts., 

 Griffith. — Disteib. Java, Philippines. 



Stem tall, 2-3 ft., stout or slender, minutely hairy, hairs deflexed. Leaves 6-8 

 by 3—4 in. , glabrous or with minute scattered hairs above, base acute or rounded j 

 petiole 3-4 in., very slender. Whorls distant, often many below the leaves J-1 im 

 diam. Calyx coriaceous, teeth half the length of the tube. Corolla faintly pubes- 

 cent, white or yellowish, upper lip narrow, lower with narrow side-lobes. Nutlets 

 very large, J in. long, obovoid, base acute, tip rounded. — An anomalous Phlomis with 

 the calyx of P. breviflora, but very different leaves. The name rugosa is wholly 

 inapplicable. 



9. P. rotata, Bentli. in Herh. Ind. Or. H.f. If T.; stemless, leaves 

 large rotately spreading orbicular or reniform coriaceous crenate rugose 

 densely tomentose laounosely reticulate beneath, whorls in a very short 

 spike or subsessUe head, bracts filiform, calyx sparsely hispid, teeth 

 spinous. 



AiPlNE SiKElM HlMAlAYA ; in the inner ranges, alt. 13-16,000 ft., J. D. S. 



Annual ? Leaves 3-6 in. diam., very thick, suddenly contracted into a very 

 broad tomentose petiole \ in. broad; nerves very thick, flabellate; floral or 2 

 oblong crenate. Whorls sometimes on a slender peduncle 2-3 in. long, at others 

 forming a dense head 1| in. diam. or less in the centre of the leaves ; bracts with 

 acicular tips. Cah/x J in., funnel-shaped, rather membranous, teeth short. Corolla 

 small, tube included, galea pubescent, densely fringed with white hairs. — A very 

 remarkable plant, with the habit of Lamium rhomboideum. 



48. NOTOCKSITE, Benth. 



An erect herb. Leaves long-petioled. Whorls axillary, globose, densely 

 many-fid. ; bracts slender, at length spinous with hooked lips. Calyx 

 5-nprved, membranous ; te^th 6, equal, with long hook-tipped spines at the 

 back. Corolla very small, tube included, not annulate ; upper Up erect, 

 concave ; lower spreading, subequally trifid. Stamens 4, ascending ; anthers 

 , conniving, cells divaricate. Siyle-lobes minute, subequal. Nutlets narrow 

 oblong, triquetrous, truncate, smooth. 



N. bamosa, 'Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 63, Lab. 636, and in BG. 

 Prodr. xii. 547 ; Wall. Cat. 2068 ; Rooh. Ic. PI. 1. 1217. 



Centeal and Eastebn Tempebate Himalaya; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, 

 alt. 4-8000 ft., J. D. S., &c. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Stem creeping at the base, 2-4 ft., stout, 4-angled. 

 Leaves 5-10 by 3-5 in., membranous, ovate, acuminate, toothed, base acute rounded 

 or subcordate; petiole 2-3 in. Whorls l-lj in. diam., densely spiny, bracts longer 

 than the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube J-J in., slender, villous above the middle, fruiting 

 hard 4-valved ; spines at length i in. Corolla as long as the calyx-spines, galea 

 villons, lower lip as long subequally 3-lobed. 



49. ESEMOSTACKVS, Eunge. 



Erect herbs. Leaves, radical broad, toothed or cut ; cauline few, smaller. 

 Whorls densely many-fid., axillary and in a terminal spike. Calyx subcam- 



