CLXXV. LABIATE. 



621 



Germander. 

 "Back view of flower. 



Germander. 

 Flower seen in profile. 



Germander. 

 Pistil cut vertically (mag.). 



Scutellaria. _ 

 Carpel cut Tertically (mag.). 



Scutellaria, 

 Embryo (mag.). 



Corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, irregular, anisostemonous, (estivation imbricate. 

 Stamens 4 didynamounj or 2 inserted on the corolla. Ovakt ^-lohed; ovules 4, 

 erect, anatropous ; style gynobasic. Fkuit separating into 4 achenes: Embeto. 

 exalbuminous ; eadiole inferior. — Stem A-gonous. Leaves opposite or whorled. 



Wliole plant often covered with vesicular glands containing an odoriferous 

 volatile oil. Stem herbaceous or sub-woodj, rarely woody, usually 4-gonous. 

 Leaves opposite or whorled, with pinnate reticulate nerves, exstipulate. Flowers 

 ^ , irregular, very rarely sub-regular {Mentha), in the axils of leaves or bracbs, soli- 

 tary or geminate, or in clustered centrifugal cymes, which form false whorls by their 

 union in pairs, and are scattered, or crowded into spikes. Calyx persistent, of 

 5 connate sepals, sometimes irregular, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-fid, lower S'-fid, sometimes 

 sub-regular with 6 segments, or 4 by the arrest of the upper. Coeolla njosopfitalous, 

 hypogynous ; tube sometimes twisted [Hyssopus lophantus, Ajuga or^m&tt)^y-iimb 

 4-5-lobed, sestivation imbricate, sometimes 2-labiate, the upper lip entire or emargi- 

 nate, the lower 3-lobed, sometimes 1-labiate from the upper lip being very short and 

 deeply cleft {Ajtiga), sometimes being bell- or funnel-shaped with 4 sub-equal lobes 

 and sub-equal stamens {Mentha). Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, usually 4, 

 didynamous, tarely 2 by arrest of the 2 upper {Cunila, Lycopus, Salvia, Rosmarinus).; 

 anther-cells often confluent at the top, sometimes separated by a well- developed 

 filiform connective {Salvia). Ovaey free, of 2 carpels, borne on a thick disk, with 4 

 lobes or cells, all free or cohering in pairs ; style simple, rising from the base of the 

 ovarian lobes, and dilatiiig into a gynobase which lines the disk ; stigina generally 

 bifid ; ovules solitary and erect in each cell, anatropous. Feuit of 4 achene-like 

 lobes or nucules, free or geminate, epicarp sometimes fleshy {Prasium). Seeds erect. 

 Embeyo straight, very rarely curved {Scutellaria), exalbuminous, or with a thin fleshy 

 albumen ; radible inferior. 



[The following i^ Bentham's classification of this large order : — 



Teibe I. OciMOiDBa!. — Stamens declinate. *Ocimmn,Mesona,Orthosip'hon,*Plectranthus, 

 Coleus, Myptis, Eriope, *Lavandula, &c. 



Tribe II. SATUEEiEiE. — Stamens remote, straight, spreading or coanivent under the 

 upper lip, 4 or 2 with the anther-cells contiguous. Corolla-lobes flat. *Pogostemon, 

 Elsholtzia, Perilla, *Menth(i, Lycopus, Bistropogon, * Origanum,, * Thymus, Micromeria, *8atureia, 

 Oalamintlia, *Gardoqnia, *M6lissa, Hedeoma, Sphacele, &c. 



