696 oxii. LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriophyton. 



Alpine Cbhteal Himalata. 5 Nepal, WalUch ; Sikkim, alt. 15-17,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



BootsiocJe stout; stem 4-6 in., stout, simple, naked below ; wool on leaves, bracts 

 and calyx J in. long, white, very soft, hardly silky. Leaves very close set, imbricating, 

 spreading or deflexed, IJ— 2 in, diam., base broadly cnneate, nerves flabellate. 

 Sracts 1-1^ in. broad, broadly cuneate, membranous, deeply toothed ; bracteoles 

 filiform. Calyx hidden amongst the leaves, 1 in. long ; lobes triangular, finely 

 pointed. Corolla 1^ in., galea pubescent. Nutlets ^ in. diam. — A very remarkable 

 Labiate, which should he placed near Lamiam, ftma which the broad galea and nutlets 

 distinguish it. 



51. GOniPKOSTEninEA, Wall. 



Perennial, stellately pubescent or tomentose herbs; roots often with 

 elongate tubers. Whorls 6-8-fld., dense- or lax-fld., axillary or in terminal 

 spikes. Calyx 10-nerved, subequally 5-tootbed. Corolla-tube slender; 

 throat dilated, not annulate; upper lip galeate, lower broadly 3-fid. 

 Stamens ascending; anthers conniving, cells parallel, transverse, naked. 

 Dish symmetric or produced behind. Style-lobes subequal. Nutlets 

 (drupes) various, glabrous or pubescent, hilum broad, pericarp thick corky 

 or fleshy. CotyUdons often unequal. — Species 16, Indian, Malayan and 

 Chinese. 



* Upper or all the whorls in terminal or axillary spikes. 



1. C strobilinum, Wall. Cat. 2161 ; stem scurfily scabrid or tomen- 

 tose, leaves elliptic-ovate subacute crenate scabrid above densely tomentose 

 beneath, whorls in a dense stout terminal tomentose spike, bracts 

 broadly elliptic-ovate exceeding the calyx, calyx § in., lobes triangular 

 acute. Benth. in Wall. PI. As. JRar. ii. 12, Lab. 647, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xii. 550. 



BuEMA; Prome, Bangoon, &c., Wallich, WClelland. — Distbib. Ava. 



Leaves 4-10 by 2-6 in., narrowed into a petiole J-3 in. Spike sometimes 1 ft. 

 and 2 in. broad; bracts 1 in. and under. Calyx J in. Corolla twice as long. 

 Nutlets ^ in., turgid. 



Vab. viridis; leaves more membranous narrowly eUiptic-lanceolate finely pubes- 

 cent beneath, flowers larger. G. viride. Wall. Cat. 2153 ; Benth. II. c— Tenasserim, 

 Wallich; Moxiimem, Parish. 



Vajb. JECeyneana ; stem petioles spikes and leaves beneath tomentose or densely 

 woolly, " flowers blueish with a purple tinge," Wight. G. Heyneanum, Wall. Cat. 

 2152 J Senth. II. c. ; Wight III. t. 176 lis, t. 9, and Ic. 1. 1456.— Deccan, from the 

 Bababoodan Hills to Travancore. 



2. G-. pedunculatum, Senth. mss. ; tomentose, leaves long-petioled 

 3-12 by 1^-7 in., ovate or eUiptic-ovate denticulate pubescent above, whorls 

 crowded in short axiUary peduncled oblong heads or spikes, bracts longer 

 than the calyx ovate serrate, calyx ^ in., lobes triangular acute. 



Khasia Mts. ; below Nurtinng, J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



Stem long, flexuous, prostrate, rooting below. Leaves distant. SpiJees 1-4 in. 

 long, axillary and from below the leaves or even from the rooting portion of the stem ; 

 peduncle tomentose, J-1 in. ; bracts and calyx red-brown. Corolla | in., glabrous, 

 pale sulphur colour. Nutlets \ in., subglohose, rugose. 



3. G. acaule, Kurz mss.; stemless, densely pubescent, leaves 4^ 

 by 3^i in. elliptic obtuse crenate, petiole very stout long or short, whorls 

 in a very short velvety terminal sessile spike softly tomentose, bracts much 

 longer than the calyx ovate crenate, calyx f in., lobes lanceolate. 



