310 D. Prain — Some additional species of Labiataa. [No. 4, 



short. Nutlets very minute, apices ovate subtriquetrous, below smooth. 

 — Species 4, S. Chinese and Indo-Chinese. 



1. Microtcena CYMOSA Prain; minutely tomentose, leaves widely 

 ovate-acute base subcordate margin creuate-dentate, cymes rather lax, 

 calyx teeth triangular, galea throat below 2-auriculate rather longer 

 than tube, lateral lobes of lip ovate-rotund thrice exceeding central 

 narrowly elliptic, nutlets very minute. — Microtcena cymosa Prain in 

 Hook., Icon. Plant, xix, t. 1872. — Microtama cymosa Forbes 8f Hemsl., 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xxvi, 306 and xxviii, 116. — Gomphostemma insuave 

 Eance, Jour, of Botany, 1884, p. 231. — Plectranthus Patchouli Clarke in 

 Hook. /., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 624 and Jour. Linn. Soc. xxv, 58. 



Assam: Naga Hills, Jenkins; Manipur, Clarke; Khasia hills at 

 Sohra 4000, cult., Clarke; Shillong 5000, cult., Mann. Burma; Slian 

 hills, at Fort Stedman, 3000, Collett n. 921. Distrib. S. China. 



Stems 40 — 100 cm., lower branches 15 — 20 cm. petioles 2 — 3 cm. 

 long, laminse 4 — 7 cm. long 3 — 5 cm. wide, hairy on both surfaces, cymes 

 sometimes loosely paniculate irregularly bi'anched, calyx 25 mm. (tube 

 2 mm.), corolla 14 mm. (tube infundibnliform 6 mm., upper lip 8 mm.), 

 pollen grains minute oval smooth, nutlets 1*25 mm. — The cultivated 

 plant smells very strongly of Patchouli, much more so than does the 

 Patchouli plant of commerce, but it is only grown as a cariosity; the 

 natives of the hills of Assam do not grow this plant or the true Patchou- 

 li plant, nor do they know or use the prepared article : the Shan hill 

 plant is devoid of smell. 



2. Microtcena Griffith ti Prain; glabrescent, leaves widely ovate- 

 acute, base cuneate margin duplicate-crenate, cymes rather dense, calyx 

 teeth deltoid acuminate, galea throat entire half as long as tube, lateral 

 lobes of lip rounded half exceeding central ovate, nutlets small. 



Assam : — " Eastern Bengal " (probably Mishmi hills), Griffith, n. 

 4059 Kew distrib. ; Dibroo Mukh, Masters, 1072. 



Stem 40 — 100 cm., lower branches 15 — 20 cm,, petioles 4 — 5 cm. 

 long, lamina? 7 — 9 cm. long 4 — 7 cm. wide, glabrous thinly membranous, 

 cymes thyreoid, calyx 6 mm. (tube 4 mm.), corolla 16 mm. (tube slightly 

 infundibuliform above 11 mm., galea 5 mm.), pollen grains minute 

 spherical rugulose, nutlets 3 mm. 



39. STACHTS Linn. 



* * Herbs, stem 4<-angled. Whorls few-flowered, bracts minute. 



lb. Stacitys corbtfolia Prain; ascending, stems sparsely hirsute 

 with long spreading white hairs, leaves long petioled, ovate obtuse or sub- 

 acute, deeply cordate, crenate, hispid on both surfaces with long simple 

 hairs, floral small shorter than the calyx, ovate subsessile, whorls 4 — 6- 



