306 D. Pram—- Some additional species of Labiatas. [No. 4, 



at length confluent 1-locular. This plant I had therefore at first thought 

 might have to be generically separated from Nepeta, but Professor 

 Oliver who has very kindly examined specimens at Mr. Hemsley's re- 

 quest finds this is uunecessaiy ; the character of prolonged filaments 

 occurs in other species of the genus. 



E. Dwarf species; leaves crowded, cymes or whorls axillary, floral 

 leaves as large as the cauline and close-set (Glechoma L.). 



32 b. Nepeta pharica Prain ; erect, sublanate, leaves sessile orbic- 

 ular rugose crenate, cymes all axillary few-flowered shorter than the 

 leaves, calyx softly tomentose sub-2-fid upper lip longer and with 

 broader less deeply divided teeth than lower, tube villous within, sta- 

 mens included or upper pair subexserted, nutlets linear oblong smooth. 



Eastern Tibet; Phari, King's collector ; between Phari and Lhassa, 

 Lama Ujyen Gyatsko n. 106. 



Rootstock creeping, stems 4 — 10 cm., leaves P5 — 2 cm. across, 

 very close set, base crenate, cymes sessile, bracts minute, calyx 9 mm. 

 long, corolla 16 mm., tube straight slightly dilated at throat, nutlets 

 2 - 75 mm. long. 



P. Annuals ; calyx-mouth straight. 



34. Nepeta bracteata Benth. ; dwarf, stem very slender branch- 

 ing from the base, branches spreading subrigid, leaves petioled oblong 

 or rhomboid distant toothed apex acute base cuneate, floral leaves 

 sessile surrounding and generally exceeding the dense heads, bracts 

 numerous oblong or ovate longer than flowers, submucronate, promin- 

 ently nerved with margins entire, whorls condensed in ovate "heads, 

 calyx teeth straight subulate ciliate half as long as tube, corolla tube 

 included, nutlets oblong shining smooth. — Nepeta bracteata Benth., DO. 

 Prodr. xii, 395 ; Boiss., Flor. Orient , iv, 667. — Zataria humilis Benth., 

 BO. Prodr., xii, 183. 



Beluchistan ; assigned districts at Shelabagh, 6,000 feet, Lacen. 

 3331. Distrib. Persia. 



Stems 5 — 15 cm., leaves l - 5 — 2 cm. long 1 cm. wide, floral leaves 

 1 cm. long, 035 cm. wide, bracts 8 mm. long, calyx 6 % 5 mm. long, corolla 

 8 mm. long, nutlets 2"5 mm. 



30. DRACOCEPHALUM Linn. 



4. Dracocephaltjm heterophtllum Benth.,- add to localities of 

 Flora of British India, iv, 666. 



Eastern Tibet ; Phari 11-14000 feet, Dr. King's collectors; Karoo- 

 la, near Lhassa, Dr. King's collector. 



7. Dracocephaltjm tangtjticum Maxim., Mel. Biol., xi, 307 (1881). 

 — D. Hookeri 0. B. Clarice in Hook, f, Flor. Brit. Ind., iv, 606 (1885). 



