1073 2-25 July, 1969 Common on stony, gravelly east slope overlooking a small stream 11 km. south of the highway summit north of Sarl, in the Ellburz Mountains, Iran. Stems clustered on a woody root and branched, mostly canary. Flowers bright pink-purple. Calyx sub- equally 5-cleft, 10-nerved. Upper lip of corolla sub- galeate, entire or nearly so. Stamens 4, about equal, barely exerted from the corolla tube. Plants with a distinctive aroma. Elevation about 1300 m. Corolla tube with a ring of hairs 3 mm. above the base. Stachys laxa Boiss. & Buhse Mint - (3) 1800m