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XCVI. LABIATE. 
[Brunella. 
1. B. vulgaris (common), Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 410; and FI. 
Austr. v. 87. Stems procumbent or shortly creeping at tlie base, the flowering 
branches ascending sometimes to above 1ft., more or less sprinkled as well as 
the foliage with short rigid hairs, rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire or somewhat toothed, 1 to 3in. Ion". 
Flowers purplish-blue or rarely white, in false whorls of 6, forming a dense 
terminal spike, the bract-like floral leaves broad, shortly pointed, often coloured, 
about as long as the calyx. Fruiting-calyx usually about 4 lines long, the upper 
lip broad and flat, the lobes of the lower lip linear-lanceolate, acute, as long as 
the upper lip. Corolla varying from a little longer than the calyx to twice as 
long.— R. Br. Prod. 507 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 282 ; Wight. Ic. t. 1448. 
Hab.: Logan River, Rev. B. Scortecliini ; Glad field, C. J. Gwyther. 
The species is common in Europe, northern Asia and North Ameiica, extending within the 
tropics into the mountainous regions of Asia and South America. 
13. -MARRUBIUM, Linn. 
(From the Hebrew name.) 
Calyx tubular, 5- to 10-nerved, teeth 5 to 10, equal, short, subspinescent. 
Corolla short, tube naked or annulate within, upper lip erect, lower spreading, 
middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, included; anthers glandular, cells diverging. 
Style lobes short, obtuse. Nuts obtuse. — Perennial tomentose or woolly herbs. 
Whorls axillary. Flowers small. 
Natives of the temperate and warm regions of the Old World. 
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1. IVI . vulgare (common), Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 152. The com- 
mon White Horehound. A robust leafy herb of 2 to 3ft., clothed with woolly 
white hairs. Leaves petiolate, ovate or orbicular, 4- to liin. diameter, crenate 
and rugose. Whorls axillary, villous. Calyx 2 to 3 lines, coriaceous, teeth often 
hooked at the tip. Corolla |in., white, tube slender, upper lip long, 2-fid. Nuts 
1 line, smooth. 
Hab.: Naturalized and plentiful in many localities. 
Met with in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. 
14. ANISOMELES, R. Br. 
(From the Greek, unequal members.) 
Calyx 5-nerved, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, the upper 
lip erect, entire, short and somewhat concave ; lower lip longer, spreading, 3- 
lobed, the middle lobe larger than the others, emarginate or 2-lobed. Stamens 
4, in pairs, projecting from the upper lip of the corolla; anthers of the upper 
pair 1-celled, of the lower pair 2-celled, all the cells parallel and transverse. 
Nuts smooth. — Coarse herbs. Flowers in false-whorls either dense or developed 
into opposite cymes, all axillary or forming terminal racemes. 
The genus consists of very few but very variable species, common in tropical Asia, scarcely 
extending into E. Africa. The Australian forms, wdiether regarded as one or as four or five 
species, are supposed to be endemic, but they approach very near to a few of the narrower- 
leaved E. Indian varieties of A. orata and A. Ileyncana. — Benth. 
1. A. salvifolia (Salvia-leaved), P. Br. Prod. 503; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 89. 
A coarse erect herb, attaining 2 to 3ft. or even more, very variable in indumentum 
and in the development of the inflorescence, frequently hoary-tomentose or almost 
woolly without spreading hairs, or when the plant is greener often hispid with 
spreading hairs especially on the angles of the stem, the calyxes and inflorescence 
more or less glandular-viscid in the hispid forms, the glands less conspicuous or 
entirely concealed in the tomentose ones. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lonceolate, 
or rarely almost ovate in the small flowered forms, coarsely toothed, the large i 
