200 BOTANY OF THE UGANDA BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 
ealyees with ferruginous clothing, &e. From other species to 
which it bears some resemblance it ean easily be told by the 
small acuminate bracts crowded at the ends of the racemes. 
PLECTRANTHUS UGANDENSIS, Sp. nov. 
P. herbaceus, elatus, ascendens, eaule inferne valido neenon 
nudo superne ramoso et folioso piloso-pubescente, foliis 
parvis petiolatis late ovatis obtusis basi nunc rotundatis 
nunc truncatis nunerevera obtusis margine crenato-dentatis 
utrinque appresse piloso-pubescentibus dein puberulis 
aliquantulum erassiusculis, floribus in panieulis gracilibus 
sat effusis folia multoties excedentibus minute glanduloso- 
pubescentibus digestis, verticillastris distantibus 2- (raro 
3-) floris, bracteis parvis lanceolatis quam pedicelli ealyei 
subzquilongi multo brevioribus, calycis minute glanduloso- 
puberuli lobo postico sub flore ovato sursum attenuato 
quam lobi reliqui setacei paullulum breviore, coroll tubo 
calycem duplo excedente sigmoideo labio artico late 
oblongo quam posticum oblongo-ovatum dentato-3-lobum 
obtusissimum paullo longiore. 
Hab. Ruchigga at 7000 feet. Fl. December, 532. 
Herba $-metralis. Folia 1:0-2:0 x 0:8-1:3 (rarissime 15) em.; 
petioli + 0:5 em. long., ut folia pilis erassiusculis albidis 
piloso-pubescentes. ^ Panieulus feri j-metralis; hujus 
rami simplices, ascendenti-patentes. Bractew modice 
0:1-0:3 em. long. Pedicelli sub flore 0'3 em. sub fructu 
nutantes et 06-07 em. long. Flores dilute cerulescentes. 
Calyx florescens 0:25 cm. long. ; fructificans 077 em. long. ; 
hujus lobum postieum late ovatum acutum, 0:23 em. long. 
et totidem lat.; lobi reliqui recti, firmi, laterales 0'2 em. 
antici 0°26 em. long. Corolle tubus 0'5 em. long., 0*1 
em. diam., extus puberulus ; labium antieum 0:5 x 08 em., 
posticum 0:4x0:375. cm., hujus lobi laterales vix 0*1 
cm. long., obtusissimi. Nucule ovoidem, leves, polite, 
0-1 em. diam. 
Recognisable by means of the small pilose-pubescent leaves, the 
long effuse panicles, and 2-flowered verticillasters, coupled with 
certain characters of the calyx and corolla. 
COLEUS UMBROSUS, Vatke, in Linnea, xliii. (1880) 91. 
Ruehigga. Fl. November, 420. 
Distrib. Nile Land. Mozambique District. 
