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for those that cannot take breath unless they hold their necks upright " (Gerard).

Vern. : — Shanshohai (Pushtu).

Habitat : — Western Tibet ; Afghanistan and Baluchistan.

An erect much-branched, diæcious strong-scented twiggy shrub or undershrub 2-4ft., woody below, densely or sparsely clothed with white or grey stellate scurf. Leaves opposite, linear-oblong sometimes bipinnatisect, crenatures or lobes or segments obtuse. Flowers small, whorls small, distant, in simple or compound or panicled spikes, 2-or more-fid. Calyx clothed with long cottony wool. Stamens 2, lower fertile. Nutlets pyriform, smooth dry.

Use : — At Ziarat (Baluchistan), the plant is used as a cooling medicine (Lace, in Watt's Die. Ec. Pr.)

Habitat : — Western Temperate Himalaya, on dry rocks, from Simla to Kumaon.

An erect strongly-scented tomentose shrub, 2-5ft. Branches obscurely angled. Leaves coriaceous, thick, shortly stalked, oblong or lanceolate. 2-4 by ¾-l½in., crenate, base prolonged downwards in 2 pointed lobes ; upper surface pubescent, closely wrinkled ; lower white tomentose. Flowers small white in large whorls crowded in erect tomentose, 4-sided, often paniculate spikes; spikes with woody bracts in fruit (Kanjilal) ; floral leaves small, bract-like sessile ovate, overlapping. Calyx tubular- ovoid, 2-lipped ; upper lip concave, entire, lower 2-toothed. Corolla-tube as long as the Calyx. Stamens 2, anthers protruding (Collett). Nutlets obovoid, smooth brown.

Uses : — The same as of the following species, viz., M. Bengalensis, Benth.