132 D. Prain— Some additional species of Labiate. [No. 4, 



axillary few-fid. bracteoles acicular often spinescent. Calyx tubular- 

 campanular 5-nerved, mouth equal or oblique, teeth 5 subspitiescent equal 

 or with the upper prolonged. Gorolla tube often shortly exserted, an- 

 nular-pilose within slightly enlarged upwards, limb 2-lipped, upper lip 

 erect, oblong, 2-fi.d subconcave, lower 3-fid, lateral lobes short acute erect, 

 central spreading wide emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous, lower 

 longer ascending, filaments adherent, anthers 2-locular, lobes parallel or 

 divergent, margins ciliate. Style 2-fid, lobes subequal subulate. Nutlets 

 3-quetrous apex truncate. — Species about 15, Oriental. 



* Lower axils armed with sterile spinescent bracts. 



1. Lagochilus cabulicus Bentli. ; stems pubescent, setose or 

 glabrous, white, leaves palmately 3-5-fid, lobes oblong entire or incised 

 obtuse or acute mucronate or not, calyx, hispid hirsute or glabrous, 

 teeth oblong subcuneate obtuse mucronate longer than the tube, corolla 

 tube short, upper lip villous. — Lagochilus cabulicus Bentli., DG. Prodr. 

 xii, 515 ; Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 769. 



Gilgit ; Giles. Distrib. Afghanistan, Turkestan. . 



Stems 18 — 25 cm. high 4-augled smooth, leaves 2 cm. long 1'5 cm. 

 across, petioles 1 cm., lobules 2 mm. across, only those of the uppermost 

 leaves and bracts usually mucronulate, barren spines 8 — 10 mm. long 

 glabrous, with a pair of minute lateral suberect spinules on upper sur- 

 face near base, floral spines 22 — 25 mm. long, hispid setose or at length 

 glabrous with the lateral spinules 10 mm. long, acerose and setose-hispid, 

 calyx tube 5 mm., lobes 8 mm. long, 4'5 mm. across, margins of lobes 

 hispid-haired, tips acuminate mucronulate. 



44. OTOSTEGIA Bentu. 



1. OtoSTEGIA limbata Boiss. in Flor. Orient, iv, 778 (1879) ; 

 Benth. mss. in Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 680 (1884). 



2. Otostegia Aucheri Boiss. ; glabrous, leaves subsessile ellqjtic- 

 lanceolate acute with spinescent tips, quite entire, nerveless, bracts 

 subulate spinescent. — O. Aucheri Boiss., Diagn. ser. v, 40 ; Bentli. in 

 DG. Prodr. xii, 523; Jaub. et Spdch, III. PI. Or. iv, 124, t. 3S2 ; Boiss., 

 Flor. Orient, iv, 778. 



British Beluchistan ; Nal, Duke ; Quetta, Lace, 3666 (in Herb. 

 Watt.) Distrib. Throughout Beluchistan and S. Persia. 



An erect spiny bush branching below, young branches slender 4- 

 angled green, spines 6 — 12 mm., leaves 2"5 cm. base narrowed, minutely 

 puberulons below, smooth above, tips pungent, whorls distant, bracts all 

 spiny rounded straight pungent, calyx sparsely hairy, throat naked, 

 flowering 6 mm , turbinate with broad membranous 5-toothed limb, upper 

 tooth ovate acuminate, lateral smaller, lower very large rounded spine- 



