Monarda.] 
XCYI. LABIATE. 
1195 
Style almost equally bifid at top ; stigmas minute, terminal. Nuts dry, smooth. 
Herbs, with entire usually toothed or crenated leaves. Flowers collected into dense 
whorls, supported by bracts, which are often coloured. 
1VI. arislata (awned), Benth. Lab. 818. An erect branching herb slightly 
hoary, and all parts hairy. Leaves lanceolate, tapering much towards the base, 
2 or 3in. long, serrate. Flowers in dense whorls, white ; bracts ciliate, sessile, 
usually of a purple colour, ending in long awns. Calyx-tube striate, much 
bearded at the throat ; lobes long, subulate. Corolla white, spotted with purple ; 
tube about as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens shorter than the upper lip. 
Hab.: Harrisville, from whence it was received from Rev. J. Coles, as a plant becoming 
naturalized in that locality. It is a native of Arkansas, Texas, and other parts of America, 
from whence it has been introduced in garden seeds. 
11. SCUTELLARIA, Linn. 
( Scutellum , a shield, in allusion to shape of calyx-lip.) 
Calyx divided into 2 entire lips, the upper one bearing on its back a hollow 
scale-iike protuberance. Corolla wdth a rather long tube, and small nearly closed 
lips, the upper one concave, emarginate, the lower lip convex, spreading, 
emarginate at the end, the lateral lobes more frequently connate with the upper 
lip than with the lower. Stamens 4, in pairs, ascending under the upper lip ; 
anthers ciliate, those of the upper pair 2-celled, those of the lower 1 -celled by 
the abortion of the second cell. Style with the upper stigmatic lobe exceedingly 
short. Nuts granular-tuberculate, raised on a short oblique stalk. — Herbs or 
rarely shrubs. Flowers solitary within each floral leaf, either opposite and 
axillary or in terminal racemes or spikes. 
The genu? is widely distributed over the temperate and some of the warmer regioris both of 
the New and the Old World. 
1. S. humilis (low), B. Br. Prod. 507 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 88. A 
perennial with a slender creeping rootstock and ascending stems, nearly 
glabrous or only minutely pubescent. Stems usually under Gin. and rarely when 
very luxuriant nearly a foot long. Lower leaves petiolate, broadly ovate or almost 
orbicular, usually cordate, marked with a few deep crenatures or almost lobed, 
rarely above -§in. long, the lower floral ones often the largest on long petioles 
and almost deltoid, the upper ones gradually smaller, narrower and with shorter 
petioles, but none quite sessile. Pedicels axillary, both turned to one side, 1 to 
8 lines long. Calyx minutely pubescent. Corolla about 3 lines long, the lower 
lip rather longer than the upper one. — Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 427 ; Hook. f. 
FI. Tasm. i. 283. 
Hab.: Various localities from the Islands of Moreton Bay to Stanthorpe. 
The species is nearly allied to the European and Asiatic S. minor and to the N. America 
S. parvula. — Benth. 
12. BRUNELLA, Linn. 
(From the German name of a complaint it was supposed to cure). 
Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip flat, truncate, shortly 3-toothed, the lower with 
2 lanceolate lobes. Corolla-tube as long as or longer than the calyx, the upper 
lip erect, short, broad, concave, nearly entire, the lower one spreading, 3-lobed. 
Stamens 4, in pairs, ascending under the upper lip, each filament with a small 
tooth under the anthers. Anther-cells distinct, divaricate. Style bifid at the 
top. Nuts oblong, smooth. — Perennial herbs, usually decumbent at the base. 
Flowers in false-whorls of 6, forming dense terminal spikes, with bract-like 
floral leaves. 
A genus of very few species, very widely dispersed over the temperate regions and tropical 
mountains of both the New and the Old World. The only Australian species is the common 
one over the whole range of the genus. 
