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lanceolate, entire, obtuse, whorls (Mo-fid., secund axillary and terminal spikes. Calyx fruiting, ¼-¼in. long. Corolla bluish purple. Nutlets narrow nearly smooth triquetrous.

Use : — Used for coughs and asthma in infusion ; also in toothache, uterine or vesical affections, and indurations of the liver or spleen. Leaves are said to be stimulant, stomachic, emmenagogue and carminative ; useful in hysteria and colic. Also used as a poultice to bruises, especially of the eyes (Watt). The sap of the leaves made into a syrup with sugar and honey is used as a vermifuge for round-worms (Dr. Emerson).

Habitat :— Behar, on Parasnath. Western Himalaya, Dehra Doon. Western Ghats, from the Concan to the Nilghiris.

A pubescent very aromatic shrub. Rootstook woody. Stems l-2ft., tall, slender, erect. Leaves entire or subserrate, obtuse, ½-lin., ovate or oblong, flat ; floral small ; petiole short, bract short. Whorls subglobose, distant in slender spikes, lower peduncled. Flowers ⅛in. Calyx villous ; teeth long, subulate, erect ; fruiting 1/6in. Nutlets smooth.

Uses : — According to Mr. Dalzell, who first brought it to notice, under the name of Marrubium Malcolmianum, " it is entitled to be called East Indian Peppermint, bei^ng possessed of all the aromatic and carminative qualities of Mentha piperita " (Hooker's Journ. of Bot., 1852, vol. iv., p. 109).

Vern. : — Asába-el-fatiyát (Arab.).

Habitat : — Western Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon.

A softly hairy herb. Stems erect 3ft., slender, subsimple. Rootstock woody, stoloniferous. Leaves ovate, 1-l¾in., entire or toothed, remote. Whorls densi-fid, terminal and axillary ¾-lin. diam., depressed. The whorls are thus described by