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LXXV. LABIATE 
slender, panicled racemes ; bracts small, lower leaf-like, upper 
lanceolate. Calyx bell-shaped, upper lip entire. Corolla-tube 
included ; upper lip short, nearly straight, slightly flattened, 
concave. 
Sutlej valley, Suni, common in fields ; April-July. — Throughout India, 
ascending to 5000 ft. — China, Malaya, Australia. 
17. NEPETA. The classical name of a plant of the Labiatce, 
probably a Mint. — Asia, chiefly in mountains, N. Africa, Europe 
(Britain). 
Erect or ascending herbs. Whorls few- or many-flowered, 
sessile or stalked, crowded in terminal heads or spikes or more or 
less distant, sometimes axillary, rarely paniculate. Calyx tubular, 
15-nerved, enlarging in fruit, usually incurved, 5-toothed, mouth 
oblique, upper teeth usually longer than the others. Corolla-tube 
slender near the base, dilated towards the mouth, usually longer 
than ihe calyx ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, concave, notched, 
lower spreading, 3-lobed, lateral lobes small, usually reflexed, mid- 
lobe much larger, narrow at the base, concave, entire or minutely 
crenate. Stamens 4, in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper 
lip, the inner or posterior pair longer than the outer or anterior. 
Leaves sessile. 
Stems glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves linear, entire . . . . . .LA. linearis. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, toothed . . . . 2 . N. campestris. 
Stems densely hairy. Leaves ovate-oblong ; teeth close- 
set, regular, acute . . . . . . . 3. N. elliptica. 
Leaves stalked. 
Flowers not more than b in. long. 
Whorls sessile, crowded, distant only near the base 
of the spike. 
Lower surface of leaves glabrous or nearly so 
Lower surface of leaves tomentose. 
Calyx glabrous or nearly so ... 
Calyx covered with long hairs .... 
Whorls, at least the lower ones, distinctly stalked, 
distant nearly throughout the spike. 
Flowers sessile or nearly so. 
Flowers 4 i n - long. Corolla only slightly longer 
than the calyx ...... 
Flowers \ in. long. Corolla twice as long -as the 
calyx ........ 
Flowers on long, slender stalks .... 
Flowers f-1 J in. long. 
Flowers yellow ....... 
Flowers blue ....... 
4. N. spicata. 
5. N. distans. 
6. N. ciliaris. 
7. N. ruderalis. 
8. N. leucophylla. 
9. N. graciliflora. 
10. N. Govaniana. 
11. N. erecta. 
* 1. Nepeta linearis, Royle ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 657. Pubescent : 
rootstock tuberous ; stems ascending, 6-18 in. Leaves sessile, 
linear, 1-3 x| in., entire. Whorls sessile, crowded in small heads 
