376 
of the original localities (Madura, India 
and Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) are within the 
geographical overlap zone of A. indica and A. 
malabarica. Of the more than 200 Indian and 
Sri Lankan Anisomeles specimens seen by the 
present author, none matches the type of A. 
intermedia , further supporting the idea that it 
is an infrequent hybrid. Aluri (1992) reported 
the existence of a single plant of a presumed 
hybrid between these two species, occurring 
at Turimella, India. 
Anisomeles nepalensis Spreng., Syst. Veg. (ed. 
16) [Sprengel] 2: 706 (1825). = Craniotome 
furcata (Link) Kuntze 
Anisomeles secunda f. albiflora Kuntze, 
Revis. Gen. PI. 2: 512 (1891), nomen nudum. 
Anisomeles secunda f. rubicunda Kuntze, 
Revis. Gen. PI. 2: 512 (1891), nomen nudum. 
Acknowledgements 
I am grateful to the Directors of A, BKF, 
BM, CANB, DNA, E, G, GH, K, L, MEL, 
MH, NT, P, PERTH, PR, SING and W for the 
loan of specimens or provision of specimen 
images. Sincere thanks to Odile Poncy (P) 
who undertook a prolonged and painstaking 
search for the original material of Epimeredi. 
My thanks are due to Keith McDonald 
for his numerous excellent herbarium 
collections, including spirit material, and 
his photographic images of flowers and plant 
habit; Rigel Jensen and Jeanette Kemp for 
their collection of A. vulpina ; Ian Cowie for 
sending photographs of wild Anisomeles ; 
John McNeill for nomenclatural advice; Peter 
Bostock for helping to interpret some difficult 
Latin phrases, and for providing the Latin 
diagnoses; Jian Wang for interpreting labels 
of some Chinese specimens; Gordon Guymer 
for his support and encouragement; and Will 
Smith for the many illustrations and digital 
images. 
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