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NUMBER 77 LAMIACME 121
2. Involucral bracts c2 mm wide; erect, sometimes
suffrutescent herb.
3. Involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, membranous ...
...................... H. capitata
3. Involucral bracts lanceolate, stiff-pointed ......
..................... H. lanceolata
1. Flowers in scattered cymules or verticels, not capitate.
4. Calyx to 1 cm long, k campanulate; leaves cordate . .
...................... H. suaveolens
4. Calyx to 0.6 cm long, tubular, leaves tapered to base.
5. Flowers secund, on short pedicels; sinuses of calyx
with tufts of white hairs; calyx lobes setifonn . ...
...................... H. pectinata
5. Flowers whorled; calyx without tufts; calyx lobes
H. verticillata
acute. .................
Hyptis atrorubens Poiteau, 1806:466.
Hyplis atrorubens
Ti baume, menthe grand chemin.
Prostrate weedy herb; leaves often purplish beneath; fruiting
calyx tube to 3.5 mm, teeth pectinate; flowers white.
Neotropics; common in Dominica: Bellevue (Taylor 134,
Delices (Whitefoord 3677), Freshwater Lake (Lloyd 45, Smith
10276, Webster 13251, Zusi 301), Goodwill (Eggers 108), La
Plaine (Wilbur 8167). Layou Valley (Wilbur 818OB), Lisdara
(Hodge 882, 2332), Pont Casse (Chambers 2668), South
Chiltern (Hodge 1485), Sylvania (Cooper 9).
Sometimes confused with Mursypiunthes, q.v.
Caribs use this in a ritual hunting bath (Hodge and Taylor,
1957502). Adjanohoun et al. (1982113, pl. 80) reported
several medicinal uses.
Hyptis capitata
Hyptis capita& Jacquin, 1781, Icon.. 1:11, pl. 114; 1787, Coll., 1:102.
Erect, suffiutescent herb to 2 m; heads 2-2.5 cm in diameter;
tube of fruiting calyx 6-7 mm long, teeth puberulent; peduncle
2-6 cm long.
Neotropics; in lowlands of Dominica: Clarke Hall (Chambers
2697).
This and H. lunceoluta are easily and often confused because
of their habit similarity.
Keller and Armbruster (1989) gave an account of the
pollination of this species by eumenid wasps in Panama. There
is an explosive stamen release as a petal lobe is 3ripped.”
Hyptis lanceolata
Hyptis lanceolata Poiret in Lamarck, 1813, Encycl., Suppl., 3:114.
Herb to 2 m; head 1-1.5 cm in diameter; tube of fruiting
calyx to 5 mm long, teeth short-pectinate; peduncle 2-6 cm
long.
Mainland neotropics, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, and Martinique;
in Dominica at mid-elevations: En Haut Jean (Nicolson
4118), Laudat (Velez 3588), Syndicate (Whitefoord 3639,
5648), sine loc. (Eggers 883).
Hyptis pectinata
Hyptispectinuta (Linnaeus) Poiteau, 1806:471.
Nepeta pectinata Linnaeus, 1759a:lW.
Suffrutescent herb to 2 m; leaves rounded at base; fruiting
calyx tube to 4 mm long, with a tuft of white hairs in the throat,
teeth puberulent; flowers each subtended by a persistent, linear
bracteole.
Pantropic weed; occasional in Dominica: La Chaudiere
(Hodge 3622), Pointe Ronde (Hodge 2645, Chambers 2656),
Syndicate (Whitefoord 4465).
Adjanohoun et al. (1985:115, pl. 81) reported an infusion
used against fever.
Hyptis suaveolens
Hyptis suaveolens (Linnaeus) Poiteau, 1806:472.
Ballota suaveolens Linnaeus, 1759a:llOO.
Erect, pubescent, suffrutescent herb to 1.5 m; leaves f
cordate; fruiting calyx tube to 8 mm, campanulate, teeth to 3
mm long, spreading; inflorescence few-flowered, on 0.5- 1.5
cm pedicel from the axil of a leaf-like bract; bracteoles
apparently quickly deciduous.
Neotropics; on Dominica: sine loc. (Curator, Botanic
Station #64, at K).
Used as a tea.
Hyptis verticillata
Hyptis verticillata Iaquin. 1781, Icon., 1:ll; 1787, Coll., 1:101.
Suffrutescent, k glabrous herb to 2 m; pedicel 1 mm; calyx
tube 1.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5 mm.
Neotropics; weedy roadside plant on west coast of Dominica:
Goodwill (Nicolson 1800), Loubiere (Hodge 3860),
Pringles Bay (Whitefoord 3733, Soufriere (Ernst 1312),
Swamp Gutter (Erst 11 78).
Leonolis (Persoon) R. Brown
Leonotis nepetifolia
konotis nepetifolia (Linnaeus) W.T. Aiton, 181 1,3:409.
Phlomir nepetifolia Linnaeus. 1753586, “nepe&efdia.”
Gros &te, ball head.
Erect weedy fine-puberulent herb to 2 m with showy axillary
balls of orange flowers; calyx lobes spine-tipped.
Native of tropical Africa, now pantropic; along west coast of
Dominica: Batali River (Emst 1406), Grand Bay road (Hodge