1890.] D. Prain — Some additional species of Labiatse. 297 



Sikeim ; Ratong to Yoksum, 2500—5000 feet, T. Anderson, Eurz. 



Stems 30 — 40 cm. rather bluntly 4-angled flaccid, leaves 4 — 4.5 

 cm. long and 4 — 5 cm. wide thinly membranous, narrowed gradually into 

 a petiole 1 — 3 cm. long, serrations 3 — 7 on each side, central tooth 0'75 

 — 1*5 cm. wide, panicles solitary and terminal or few axillary, 6 — 10 cm. 

 long, lax-fid. 



Most resembles P. excisus Maxim, but is smaller in all its parts. 



20 b. Plecteanthus pharicus Prain; shrubby dwarf tomentose 

 or puberulous, leaves small sessile or subsessile ovate or rounded crenate, 

 cymes in distinctly peduncled rather dense few-fid .axillary racemes, 

 corolla tube short wide, lips very large, fruiting calyx narrow sub-2- 

 lipped subhispid strongly nerved, teeth acute, nutlets oblong. 



Eastern Himalaya : Phari, King's collectors. Distkib. S. Tibet. 



Small shrubby, stems woody and rounded below, 4-angled above, 

 15 — 30 cm. high, leaves 1 — 1"25 cm. long under 1 cm. broad, glabrate 

 above tomentose at least on the nerves beneath, peduncles 0'5 — - 75 

 cm., calyx 4 mm. (in fruit 7 mm.) long, 2'5 mm. broad, 2 lower teeth \ 

 longer than the 3 upper, tube contracted above nutlets in fruit, pedicels 

 2 — 3 mm., corolla 9 mm. long (tube 4 mm. long 2'5 mm. wide), lower lip 

 5 mm. long, nutlets pale faintly reticulated smooth, 25 mm. long 1"5 

 mm. broad. 



A very distinct species, nearest to P. melissoides and P. rugosus 

 between which it stands intermediate, 



10.* HrPTIS Jacq. 



1 b. Hyptis capitata Jacq. ; erect, stem glabrate, leaves petioled 

 ovate oblong incised sei'rate glabrate on both surfaces, peduncles longer 

 than the globose heads, bracts ovate-lanceolate or linear, calyx glabrous, 

 teeth erect subulate shorter than tube. — Hyptis capitata Jacq., Ic. rar. i, 

 t. 114; Benth., DG. Prodr. xii, 106. 



Lower Bengal ; introduced ; Kurz, etc. Distrib. Tropical America, 

 introduced into Formosa, Philippines and India. 



An erect often branching annual, leaves 8 — 10 cm. long 5 — 6 cm. 

 wide, nerves beneath minutely puberulous ; heads 20 — 25 mm. (f in. or 

 over) in diameter, enlarging in fruit, bracts renexed and often hidden, 

 corolla longer than calyx. 



12. POGOSTEMON" Desp. 



5. Pogostemon PURPUKASCENS Dalz. ; add to localities of Flora of 

 British India, iv, 632. 



Manipur ; Kassome range, 3 — 4000 feet, Watt n. 5078. 



After repeated examination I can find no character to separate the 



