From the Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LX, Fart II, No. 2, 
1891. 
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On an undescribed Oriental species of Nepeta.— By D. Prain. 
[Received 2nd March 1891Read 6th May 1891.] 
(With Plate III). 
In the Calcutta herbarium there is an example of a very distinct 
species of Nepeta which appears to be as yet undescribed. As it has 
been collected beyond the frontiers of India, it could not with propriety 
be dealt with in the paper on Indian Labiatce recently read before the 
Society. But as it possesses rather more interest than isolated new 
species usually do, its position in the ai-rangement of Oriental species 
elaborated by the late M. Boissier in his work (Flora Orientalis, iv, 637- 
670) dealing with the area in which it occurs, as well as a description 
and figure of the specimen, are now presented. 
NEPETA Ltnn. 
Sect. I. Eunepeta. Series I. Perennes. Suh-ser. 2. Nuculi© 
tuberculatse. 
§ Macrostegi^ Boiss., Flor. Orient, iv, 638 (1879) ampZ.— Verticil- 
lastra densiflora vel laxiuscula remota. Bracteee ovatse vel oblongte. 
Calyx fauce pilosus vel glaber. 
1. Calyx ore obliquus. 
a. Calyx fauce pilosus. 
N. Bellevii. 
b. Calyx fauce glaber. 
N. glomerulosa, N. juncea. 
2. Calyx ore rectus, fauce glaber. 
N. Scordotis, N. Sibthorpii, N. leucostegia. 
34 b. Nepeta Bellevii Prain; I’obusta, laxe lanata nivea, caulibus 
elongatis ramosis puberulis obtuse 4-gonis superne subnudis, foliis 
majusculis sursum decrescentibus oblongo-lanceolatis crenato-dentatis 
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