430 CII, LABIATE (BAKER). [ Coleus. 
long, pubescent, campanulate; upper tooth suborbicular, mucronate, 
as long as the tube; 4 lower small cusps. Corolla bright blue, 
} in. long; lower lip as long as the tube.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. il. 
183; Wight, Ic. t. 1432; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 137 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 625; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 359; N. E. Br. 
in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 10. C. Forskohlii, var. adoensis, Briquet in Aun. 
Jard. Genév. ii. (1898) 235. Plectranthus barbatus, Andr. Bot. Rep. 
t. 594. Ocimum cinereum, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss., App. 64. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Erkowit Mountain, near Snakin, Schweinfurth, 229! 
Eritrea: Ginda, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 390! Bogos; Atirba, near Keren, Steudner, 
1392! Lalasse Mountain, near Keren, Sfeudnerv, 1400. Abyssinia: Tigre; near 
Adowa, Schimper, 333! Mount Sholoda, 7000 ft., Schimper, 284; province of 
Wojerat, Petit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 502! Plowden! British 
East Africa : Uganda ; in cultivated ground, Wilson, 124! 
Mozamb. Dist. (rerman East Africa: Unyamwezi; Mininga, Speke § Grant, 
73! 
Also in Tropical Asia. 
Var. Schimperi, Baker. A low alpine form, with very woody main stems and 
shortly densely pubescent branches, leaves, and flowers.—C. Schimperi, Vatke in 
Linnea, xxxvii. 320; Engl. 1. c. 360. C. rupestris, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. 
No. 2172. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre ; summit of Mount Semayata, 9800 ft., Schimper, 
618! and without precise locality, Schimper, 41! 
19. C. gomphophyllus, Boker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 225. A 
perennial herb, with densely pubescent branchlets. Leaves petioled, 
obovate-cuneate, the lower 14-2 in. long, shallowly crenate, membra- 
nous, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles racemose, long, 
iax ; whorls ebracteate, 10—12-flowered ; pedicels longer than the calyx. 
Calyx pubescent, finally } in. long ; tube campanulate ; upper lip ovate, 
the others lanceolate-deltoid. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; upper 
lip small; lower oblong, 4-5 lin. long. Stamens not exserted beyond 
the lower lip. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland : Golis range, Mrs, E. Lort-Phillips ! 
_ 20. ©. flavovirens, Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 347. Stem 
villous, with jointed hairs. Leaves petioled, lanceolate or oblong, 
narrowed to the base, acute, crenate, moderately thick, yellowish-green, 
pubescent and furnished with yellow glands on both surfaces. Panicles 
racemose, dense, terminal; bracts ovate, acuminate, villous; pedicels 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx accrescent, villous outside and at the 
throat inside; upper tooth suborbicular, the others subulate, subequal. 
Corolla violet. 
Mozamb.- Dist. Kilimanjaro: near Lake Chala, 3000 ft., Volkens, 1771. 
21. Cc. Schinzii, Giirke in Bull. Herb, Boiss. vi. 555, A tall herb, 
with a simple or slightly branched rather thick stem, clothed with long 
spreading hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or obovate, the lower 
