Plectranth 20s. | CH, LABIATE (BAKER). 409 
ovate, deeply crenate, membranous, slightly hairy, the lower 2-3 in. 
long. Inflorescence a very lax racemose panicle ; branches 3-5, the end 
one 6-9 in. long; central whorls 6—8-flowered ; pedicels long, pubes- 
cent. Fruit-calyx } in. long; tube oblong; upper tooth small, ovate, 
with decurrent edges ; lateral deltoid-cuspidate ; lower 2 lanceolate, cus- 
pidate. Corolla }~1 in. long; lower lip as long as the tube. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 3000 ft., Mann, 1947! 
33. P. rupestris, Baker. Stems with a shrubby base, densely 
hairy. Leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, deeply 
crenate, densely pubescent, 14-2 in. loug. Inflorescence racemose, lax, 
terminal, 3-5 in. long; whorls many-flowered; rhachis and pedicels 
densely pubescent, the latter longer than the calyx; bracts minute, 
deciduous. Calyx 4-1 in. long, pubescent ; tube campanulate; upper 
tooth ovate, as long as the tube; lateral and lower large, lanceolate. 
Corolla twice as loug as the calyx.—Coleus rupestris, Hochst. in Schimp. 
Pl. Abyss. No. 2172. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Bellaka, 5000-7000 ft., Schimper, 2172! 
Somaliland : Ah] Mountains, near Maid, 3500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1430! and cultivated 
Specimen ! 
Near P. madagascariensis, Benth. 
34. P. quadridentatus, Schireinf. Pl. Abyss. Sept. Easicc, No. 
2086. A perennial herb, with slender branched pubescent stems, 
decumbent at the base, 3-4 in. long. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, 
very small (4 in. long), obtuse, dentate, cuneate at the base, thick and 
fleshy, densely pilose on both surfaces. Inflorescence short, lax, 
racemose; whorls 8-9-flowered; bracts oblong, foliaceous; pedicels 
t-4 in, long. Fruit-calyx pilose, } in. long; tube campanulate ; upper 
tooth ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube; lateral deltoid-cuspidate ; 
lower lanceolate. Corolla not seen. 
Nile Land. Eritrea; Mount Alam Kale, north-west of Aidereso, Sch weinfurth 
§ Riva, 2086! 
Also in Arabia. 
35. P. eyaneus, Giirke in Hngl. Jahrb. xix. 208. Stems erect, 
branched, pubescent below, subtomentose above. Leaves petio “a 
thick, broadly ovate, 14-2 in. long, obtuse, rounded or su beordate 7 ue 
base, deeply crenate, subtomentose on both surfaces. J.ower ’ hor 8 
remote, %—10-flowered ; cymes sessile; bracts ovate ; pedicels s~4 In. 
long, clothed like the axis and calyx with long spreading hairs. Bruit 
calyx ju-y5 in. long, dotted with yellow glands; upper tooth proadly 
Ovate, acute, with the margins scarcely decurrent; latera Pann 
lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate; lower longer, lanceolate-subulate. Corolla 
blue, dotted with yellow glands. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara 3 Silvi near Masheua, to ft., 
Holst, 8850! near Kwa Mshuza in the Handei Mountains, 5000 ft., Holst, . 
