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428 Cll, LABIATA (BAKER). [ Coleus. 
11. C. Dupuisii, Briguet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 70. A 
branched herb, with shortly pubescent quadrangular stems. Leaves 
shortly petioled, elliptic or suborbicular, 3-1 in. long, obtuse, crenate, 
dull green on both surfaces, with scattered crisped hairs above, glandu- 
lar-pubescent beneath. Panicle racemose, 3—4 in. long, lax except at 
the apex; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels ;}, in. long; bracts oblong. 
Fruit-calyx 4 in. long, pubescent; teeth as long as the tube; upper 
ovate ; lower acuminate. Corolla protruding 1—} in. from the throat 
of the calyx; lower lip j4—} in. long—De Wild. & Dur. Hl. Fl. 
Congo, i. t. 26. 
Lower Guinea. [ower Congo : forest of Mayombe, Dupuis, 
12. C. Dewevrei, Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 71, A tall 
herb, with pubescent branches. Leaves shortly petioled, elliptic or 
ovate-elliptic, 1-24 in. long, obtuse, regularly and closely crenate, 
shortly pubescent above, slightly pubescent on the main ribs beneath. 
Panicle racemose, lax, 4-5 in. long; whorls many-flowered ; bracts 
small, ovate, deciduous; pedicels {1,4 in. long. Calyx finally $ in. 
long ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube ; lower acuminate. Corolla 
blue, protruding 4 from the throat of the calyx ; lower lip 4 in. long. 
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Lower Guinea. Congo, Dewévre, 10924, 
13. C.assurgens, Baker. A perennial, with a decumbent base and 
long ascending simple or branched slightly pubescent fragile stems. 
Leaves petioled, broad ovate, crenate, membranous, obscurely pubescent, 
13-2 in. long. Panicles racemose, long, lax, axillary and terminal, the 
end one 4-6 in. long ; lower whorls 12—15-flowered ; pedicels reaching 
4-4 in.long. Fruit-calyx | in. long; upper lip ovate, shorter than the 
tube; 4 lower lanceolate, as long as the upper. Corolla above } 1m. 
long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder, Schimper ! 
Habit of C. latifolius, Hochst. 
14. ©. Penzigii, Dammann in Gartenfl. 1892, 525, A perennial 
herb, with stoutish steme, clothed with tine spreading white hairs. 
Leaves ovate, crenate, membranous, finely hairy, especially below, nat 
rowed suddenly to a petiole which is winged down to the base, the lower 
3-4 in, long. Whorls simple, lax, 8-flowered, forming a lax Jong race- 
mose panicle; bracts small, deciduous; pedicels unequal, hairy, the 
longest 1-1 in. long Calyx } in. long ; tube campanulate, very hairy ; 
teeth deltoid, longer than the tube, the two lateral ones smaller than 
the others. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx ; lower lip deeply 
cymbiform, bright lilac, } in. long. Stamens included in the lower lip. 
—Gard. Chron, xiv. (1893) 616; Notizb. Konig. bot. Gart. Berlin, 
1895, 7. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Chagali, 3200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1070! Acrur, 
6000 ft., Schweinfurth G& Riva, 1230! cultivated specimen, Penzig ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in November 1893. 
