1890.] D. Prain — Some additional species cf Labiataa. 309 



Stems 15 — 18 cm. long, petioles 5 — 6 mm., lamina? 18 mm. long by 

 14 mm. wide, denatures few wide (11 — 15), calyx 4 mm. by 3 mm. at 

 mouth, corolla puberulous 30 mm., long (tube 22 mm. long limbus 5 

 mm. diam.), filaments glabrous ; nutlets not seen. — A very distinct 

 species only once reported ; flowers in August. 



34 a. CHAMJ3SPHACOS Schrenk. 



Annual dwarf erect branching herbs. Leaves shortly petioled ; 

 whorls 2-flowered. Calyx campanulate subequally 5-toothed, 10-nerved 

 with ring of hairs at limbus within, subinflated in fruit, corolla tube 

 exserted or included, throat hardly widened, upper lip erect emarginate, 

 lower spreading 3-lobed. Stamens exserted or sub-included, anther- 

 cells confluent, oblong. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets oblong nar- 

 rowed. — Species 4, Western and Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan, Per- 

 sia, Beluchistan. 



§ EuCHAMiESPHACOs ; stamens exserted, calyx teeth setaceous, nut- 

 lets apiculate above. [Chamaesphacos Schrenk, Enum. PI. Nov. i, 27.] 



§ § Tapeinanthus ; stamens sub-included, calyx teeth herbaceous, 

 nutlets rounded above. [Tapeinanthus Boiss. mss. apud Benth. in DG. 

 Prodr. xii, 436.] 



1. Cham^sphacos brahuiccts Aitch. 8f Eemsl. ; densely villous, 

 usually much branched from the base, branches erect, leaves entire, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate or acute, narrowed into a short petiole, flowers axillary, 

 shortly pedicelled, calyx externally densely villous with spreading hairs, 

 teeth triangular, lanceolate, subulate acuminate, shorter than the tube 

 corolla pink, tube slightly exserted. — Chamassphacos brahuicus Aitch. 

 8f Hemsl., Trans. Linn. Soc. n. s. iii, 97. — Tapeinanthus brahuicus Boiss., 

 PJiagn. ser. 2, iv, 29 and Flor. Orient, iv, 680. 



Panjab Frontier; Suleiman range, Duke. Peshin valley, Lace. 

 Distrib Beluchistan, Khorasan. 



Stems 6 — 9 cm. high, leaves 2 - 5 — 3 cm. long, 1*25 — l - 5cm. wide, calyx 

 8 mm. long, 35 mm. wide (in fruit 5' mm. wide), corolla 10 mm. lono- } 

 nutlets 3'5 mm. long. 



35 a. MICROTCENA Prain. 



Perennial erect branching herbs. Leaves long petioled ; cymes pani- 

 culate or thyrsoid. Calyx ovoid, fruiting globose, equally 5-toothed 

 12-nerved ; throat constricted glabrous within. Corolla, upper lip 

 large galeate concave entire, lower spreading 3-fid mid-lobe smaller than 

 lateral. Stamens ascending under the upper lip ; anther-cells divaricate 

 when young, at length confluent explanate. Style bifid, upper lobe very 



