FLORA OF ADEN. 
£89 
inches long, cuneate or subtruncate at the base, pubescent on both sides ; 
petiole \ inch long. 
End-spikes 6 — 9 inches long, moderately dense, with all the flowers 
finally adpressed to the pubescent rhachis ; bracts lanceolate, m ich 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx cylindrical, finely pubescent, J \ inch 
long ; teeth very minute. Corolla- tube about \ inch long ; limb ~ inch 
in diameter. 
Capsule linear-oblong, shorter than the calyx, with 2 pyrenes ending 
in an obtuse wing. 
Locality : — Near Maala (Schweinf.). 
Distribution: — Yemen, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Kordofan, Nubia, 
Usambara. 
XXXIX. — LABIATE. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs, often gland-dotted ; branches opposite or 
verticillate, usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite or whorled ; stipules 0. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular, solitary, 2-nate or fascicled and 
axillary, or in centrifugal spicate cymes which by union in pairs form 
false whorls ; bracts small ; bracteoles usually minute, opposite. Calyx 
inferior, gamosepalous, persistent, subregular or irregular, 4 — 5-fid 
or distinctly 24ipped. Corolla gamopetalous ; limb 4-5-lobed or 
distinctly 2-lipped ; lobes imbricate. Stamens adnate to the corolla- 
tube, 4, didynamous or only 2 perfect ; anther-cells connate, separate 
or confluent, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk prominent. Ovary 
superior, deeply 4-lobed ; style simple from the centre of the ovary 
between the lobes, erect, filiform ; stigma usually 2-fid, sometimes 
unequally ; ovules solitary in each lobe of the ovary, erect, anatropous. 
Fruit of 4 dry (rarely fleshy) 1 -seeded nutlets at the base of the 
calyx, sometimes 1 or more suppressed. Seed solitary in the nutlets, 
small, erect ; albumen scanty or 0 ; embryo conform to the seed ; 
radicle inferior. 
Genera about 140 ; species about 3,000. 
Distribution : — ’Cosmopolitan. 
Attachment of nutlets basilar. 
Corolla-tube short j lower lip flat ; stigma 2 -fid . . . 1. Ocirnum. 
Corolla-tube usually long ; lower lip concave, stigma entire . 2. Orthosiphon. 
Attachment of nutlets slightly oblique to the outer side, the 
nutlets also dorsally attached to the lobes of the disk . 3 . Lavandula. 
1. Oclmum Linn. 
Strongly scented herbs, shrubs or undershrubs. 
Flowers small, in 6 — 10-flowered whorls, spicate or racemose 
pedicels with recurved tips \ bracts small, caducous. Calyx ovoid or 
