308 D. Praia — Some additional species of Labiatae. [No. 4, 



Stems woody below and subterete, 4-angled above and grooved, 

 20 — 25 cm. bigb, leaves few, petioles 3 — 4 cm. almost equalling laminos 

 4 — 4'5 cm. long and 1 — 1*5 cm. across, denatures 7 — 8 on each side absent 

 from basal J or J, racemes 8 — 10 cm., bracts 3 mm. long equalling pedi- 

 cels, calyx 3 mm., corolla 16 mm., nutlets 1 mm. 



Nearly allied to S. discolor Colebr. of which it has all the characters 

 of corolla and has also, near the top of the spike, the scattered flowers ; it 

 bears to that species the relationship that S. oblong a Benth. bears to 8. 

 violacea Heyne. Flowers November to January. As to foliage it most 

 nearly approaches S. oblonga, with which species Mr. Hemsley, who has 

 kindly examined it, suggests its union. That species however, besides 

 differing in having all the flowers opposite, occurs at 5000 feet elev. and 

 flowers in April. 



* * * * Floivers in long narrow racemes, bracts longer tlian the 

 pedicels and calyx but hardly leafy. 



7 b. Scutellaria, petiolata Hemsl. 8f Lace ; glabrous, steins 

 slender tufted from thick woody rhizome, leaves petioled ovate acute, 

 base truncate entire, sides each with 2 — 3 crenations, anterior third 

 entire, bracts ovate entii'e petioled only the lowest exceeding the 

 calyx, pedicels short, corolla tube 5 times exceeding calyx, upper lip 

 notched, nutlets granulate. — Scutellaria petiolata Hemsl. 8r Lace, Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. ined. 



Beluchistan ; assigned districts, Mr. Duthie's collectors. Distrib. 

 S. Afghanistan at Ziarat. (Lace 4006). 



Rootstock 1 cm. thick, stems 13 — 25 cm. long round hardly as thick 

 as crow quills, petioles - 75 — 3 cm. long, lamina? 2 — 3 cm. long 15 — 2 

 cm. across, crenations shallow, both surfaces quite glabrous, bracts 8 mm. 

 long 3 mm. across, pedicels 2 mm., calyx 4 mm. long 3 mm. wide, corolla 

 tube 22 mm. long, limbus 5 mm. across upper lip 4 mm. long lower 6 mm., 

 nutlets elliptic 2 mm. long. — Dries pale reddish brown. 



10. Scutellaria scandens Don, Prodr. Flor. NepaZ. 110 (1825) ; 

 Benth., Lab. Gen. et Sp. 444 (1834).— S. angulosa Benth. in Wall. Cat., 

 2139 (1828), PI. As. Par. i, 67, (1830), DO. Prodr. xii, 430 (1848) ; 

 Hook. /., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv, 669 (1885).— S. celtidifolia A. Ham., 

 Monogr. Seidell., 27 (1832). 



***** Floivers all axillary. 



15. Scutellaria kingiana Prain ; stems puberulous decumbent 

 slender several from creeping slender rootstock, leaves pubescent pe- 

 tioled ovate orbicular obtuse crenate except the rounded base, flowers 

 axillary pedicelled few, pedicels short, calyx puberulous, corolla large 

 white. 



Eastern Himalaya : — Kang-ma, 60 miles north of Phari and on the 

 banks of the Pe-na-mong Chu. Dr. King's collector. 



