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Plate 53 ft 54] AJUGA LEONURUS 129
Ajuga parviflora,
Benth.
(Parviflora means small -flowered.)
A softly hairy herb. Stems ascending, diffusely branched
from the base. Leaves stalkless or short-stalked, egg-shaped
or oblong, 2-6 in. long, toothed or almost entire, lower surface
often tinged with purple ;
radical leaves spreading. Spikes
1-4 in. long ;
whorls usually crowded, lower sometimes distant.
Bracts egg-shaped or oblong, much longer than the flowers.
Calyx jVA in- long teeth
; lance-shaped, as long as the tube.
Corolla blue, tube slender, i- in. long, protruding, hairless
or hairy ;
limb very small ; upper lip very short, 2-lobed.
Stamens included in the tube.
Nutlets TG in. long, pitted.
Locality. At elevations up to 7,000 ft.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon,
Afghanistan.
LEONURDS, Linn.
Plate 54
(From the Greek Icon, lion, and oura, a tail, alluding to the
inflorescence.)
Fig. 1. Leonurus cardiaca, Linn. Motherwort.
(From the Greek kardiakos, suffering from heart-disease.)
Bootstock stout. Stems stout, erect, 2-4 ft. high. Leaves
stalked ;
lower egg-lance-shaped, about 5 by 3 in., deeply and
irregularly cut into several coarsely toothed lobes ; upper
narrow, lobed or nearly entire. Flowers i in. long, pink,
crowded in axillary whorls which form long, terminal, more
or less interrupted spikes. Bracts spinous. Calyx in. long,
shortly tubular ;
teeth 5, triangular, spine-tipped, spreading.
Corolla hairy, especially the upper lip tube
; hardly longer
than the calyx- tube ;
limb 2-lipped, upper lip erect, hood-like,
entire, lower spreading, 3-lobed, midlobe longest, entire.
Stamens 4, in unequal pairs, ascending under the upper lip,
outer or anterior pair longer than the inner.
Flowers. June.
Locality. Srinagar ; Aidgah ;
below Basam Gali, in open
situations, above 10,000 ft.
Distribution. Temperate W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to
Kumaon, 6,000-10,000 ft., N. Asia, W. Asia, Europe.