Coleus. } CII. LABIAT£ (BAKER). 431 
above 2 in, long, narrowed to the base, entire or obscurely toothed, fleshy, 
glabrescent or pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles racemose, long, 
simple ; whorls 6—10-flowered ; bracts broad, acute, ciliate, projecting 
beyond the buds ; pedicels lin. long. Fruit-calyx hispid, 4—} in. long; 
throat villous inside; upper tooth broadly ovate; lower lanceolate- 
subulate. 
Lower Guinea. (erman South-west Africa: Ambo-land, Schinz, 56. 
22. ©. decumbens, Giirke in Mngl. Jahrb. xix. 211. Perennial. 
Stems stoloniferous, decumbent at the base, pubescent. Leaves small, 
thick, fleshy, petioled, the lower rhomboid-ovate, the upper ovate-lanceo- 
late, }-1 in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base, deeply crenate-dentate, 
pubescent on both sides. Panicles racemose, dense, terminal and in the 
axils of the upper leaves; flowers few in a whorl ; bracts broadly ovate, 
obtuse, fleshy, deciduous; pedicels pubescent, } in. long. Calyx sub- 
hispid ; throat hairy inside ; upper tooth round, apiculate, } in. long, 
the edges scarcely decurrent; the others subequal, lanceolate-deltoid, 
ciliate. Corolla-tube bent down; lower lip violet, much narrowed to 
the base ; upper blue outside, white and spotted inside. 
5 Nile Land. British East Africa: Duruma district, near Txamtei, Hildebrandt, 
2320. 
Mozamb. Dist. (terman East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; on the stony ridge of 
the crater at Lake Chala, 3000 ft., Volkens, 327 ! 
23. ©. tetensis, Baker. A perennial herb, with short slender 
ascending, slightly pubescent stems. Leaves small, fleshy, aromatic, 
ovate-cuneate, crenate, slightly pubescent. Panicles spicate, simple, 
1-3 in, long, moderately dense; pedicels obsolete. Fruit-calyx } in. 
long, slightly pubescent ; tube campanulate; upper tooth orbicular, 
mucronate, longer than the tube; 4 lower as long, lanceolate. Corolla 
2 in. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; near Tete, Kirk ! 
24. C. vestitus, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 224, A perennial 
herb, with branchlets densely clothed with white spreading hairs. 
Leaves petioled, ovate, 1-14 in. long, crenate, moderately thick, densely 
pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles racemose, long, lax; whorls 5~6- 
flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; bracts small, ovate, foliaceous. 
Calyx pubescent, finally 1—1 in. long; tube campanulate ; teeth as long 
as the tube; upper ovate, the others lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long 
as the calyx; upper lip small, orbicular ; lower oblong-unguiculate, 
}-4 in. long. Stamens as long as the lower lip. 
Nile Land. British Somaliland; Golis range, 3000 ft., Miss Edith Cole ! 
Urs, Lort-Phiilips ! 
25. GC. speciosus, Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1899, 64. A perennial 
herb, Stem covered with white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
thick, fleshy, oblong or ovate-oblong, 2-3 in. long including the petiole, 
