Flora Medica

LAMIACEJE, OR LABIATE.MARRUBIUM.Calyx tubular, 5-1 0-nerved, equal; with 5-10 acute spiny teeth.Corolla with the upper lip erect, the lower spreading and trifid,with the middle lobe broader and generally emarginate. Stamensdidynamous, enclosed ;anthers with divaricating, somewhatconfluent lobes, all nearly of the same form. Style withshort obtuse lobes.1027. M. vulgare Linn, sp.pl. 816. Eng. Bot. t. 410. Woodv.t. 97. Smith Eng. Ft. iii. 103. Bentham lab. 591. M. hamatumHBK. n. g. et sp.ii. 310. M. apulum Tenoreji. nep.t. 154. Waste groundall over Europe and the middle of Asia ;also various parts of both North and South America. (Horehound.)Stem bushy, branching from the bottom, bluntly quadrangular, leafy,clothed with fine woolly pubescence. Leaves on longish stalks, exceptthe upper ones, which are nearly sessile their ; shape and size, as wellas the degree of their woolliness, various ; their surfaces wrinkled andveiny. Flowers white, in dense convex whorls. Calyx-teeth rigid,recurved at the point, all spreading the 5 alternate ones smallest ; ;orifice of the tube hairy. The whole herb has a white or hoary aspect,and a very bitter, not unpleasantly aromatic, flavour. Its extract is apopular remedy for coughs and asthmatic complaints. Smith. It hasbeen recommended in chlorosis and hysteria as stimulating and tonic ;and also in the treatment of intermittents. An infusion of the leaveshas been found serviceable in chronic catarrh and humoral asthma.Made into syrup or confection and candied with sugar they form apopular remedy for slight coughs ;the plant although not much usedprofessionally, appears to deserve more attention than it now receives.Burnett.1028. Teucrium Marum Linn, seems to be a genuine felineaphrodisiac its active ;properties deserve investigationANISOMELES.Calyx ovate-tubular, equal, 5-toothed. Corolla with a hairyring inside the ; upper lip oblong, erect, entire, the lower larger,spreading, with the lateral lobes ovate, obtuse, the middle oneemarginate and somewhat bifid. Stamens didynamous, the 2lowest the largest; the anthers approximated in pairs ; those ofthe longer stamens halved, of the shorter 2-celled, with paralleltransverse cells. Style equally bifid.1029. A. malabarica RBr. in Bot. mag.t. 2071. HookerJourn. Bot. i. 225. t. 127. Benth. lab. 704. Nepeta malabaricaLinn. mant. 566. Ajuga fruticosa Roxb. fl.ind. iii. 1. EastIndies and Isle of France.Stem erect, 2-5 feet high, 4-sided, with obtuse angles. Branchesnumerous, axillary, ascending. Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse,crenate, except at the base which is entire, strongly reticulated494