106 THE LABIATES OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Scortecliini, Prain ! G. Curtisii, Prain ! Cymaria dicho- 

 toma, Benth ! Acrymia ajugiflora, Prain ! Those marked " !" 

 are the only ones which can claim to be really indigenous. 



The Basils, Ocimum and the Mint, Mentha javanica 

 are garden pot herbs which can hardly be said to have es- 

 tablished themselves anywhere. The Mint quoted only from 

 Malacca, Griffith, has long been cultivated. It seldom flowers 

 here, and I have never seen it outside a garden plot. Salvia 

 coccinea, Juss. and Orthosiphon stamineus as far as our region 

 is concerned are only to be met with in flower beds. The 

 Orthosiphon " Kumis Kuching " of the Malays is however a 

 native of Siam and may be found wild across our borders in 

 the extreme north. 



Leonurus nepetifolia, Br. is also a cultivated plant only 

 to be found in gardens. 



Anisomeles malabarica, Br. only met with in Penang 

 town suburbs, is obviously an introduction from India prob- 

 ably by Tamils. It was collected in 1822 in Penang by 

 Wallich. 



Leonurus sibiricus is brought in and cultivated by Chi- 

 nese who use it in medicine. 



Salvia plebeia, Br. is only recorded from Malacca without 

 collector's name, probably the specimen was from an in- 

 troduced plant. Leucas martinicensis, Br. is also an in- 

 troduction. It has only been obtained by Scortechini in 

 Perak. 



Xone of these plants have ever established themselves as 

 weeds, and can only be classed as Garden escapes. 



Thoroughly established here as all over the tropics are 

 the two American Hyptis, II. suaveolens and H. brevipes. 



The rest of the list fall into three groups (1) herbs 

 occurring as weeds only in cleared ground near cultivation, 

 but certainly natives of this area. These are Col ens atropur- 

 pureus, Benth., Anisomeles ovata, Br., Lencas zeylanica, Br. 

 and L. lavandulifolia, Sm. and Calamintha gracilis, Benth. 

 This latter I found in some quantity at the foot of the 

 Thaiping hills in open ground. It has otherwise only been 

 found in Java and once in Assam. 



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