434 Cll. LABIATE (BAKER). [ Coleus. 
acuminate. Corolla hairy; tube longer than the flower-calyx; upper 
lip recurved ; lower navicular, }—} in. long. Stamens as long as or 
longer than the lower lip of the corolla. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland: Waggar Mountains, Mrs, Lort-Phillips. 
34. C. amboinicus, Lour., var. violaceus, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. 
xix. 210. Stems shrubby at the base ; branches thick, fleshy, pubescent. 
Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, 1-2 in. long, rounded at the base, 
crenate, pubescent on both sides. Infloreseence racemose, long, lax, 
simple; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts ovate, acuminate. 
Calyx small, pubescent, campanulate, scarcely accrescent ; upper tooth 
ovate-oblong, the others setaceous. Corolla violet or blue-violet, $ in. 
long.—C. aromaticus, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 72; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
t. 1520; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 625; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 865. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 5556 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; on the ridge of the 
crater at Lake Chala, 3000 ft., Volkens, 321! Usambara ; at the foot of Rhinoceros 
Hill, by the ford of the Pangani, 2600 ft., Volzens, 487. 
Also Tropical Asia. 
35. C. umbrosus, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 91. A shrub, with 
woody stems and pubescent branchlets. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, 
crenate, membranous, nearly glabrous, 2—3in. long. Panicle racemose, 
moderately dense, the end branch 5-6 in. long; whorls few-flowered ; 
pedicels very short. Fruit-calyx 4} in. long; tube curved, campanu- 
late, very gibbous on the lower side, pubescent, strongly ribbed ; upper 
tooth ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; 4 lower teeth large linear- 
subulate cusps. Corolla nearly 1 in. long; lower lip deeply concave, as 
long as the tube.— Dewévre in Comptes rendus Soe. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 105. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Taita; Ndara, Hildebrandt, 2424, and at 
Mwatate, 2000 ft., Johnston! Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2743! 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, Holst, 9159! 
Kilimanjaro ; at Kwa Ngowe, Volkens, 357! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; 
Blantyre, Descamps. 
36. GC. Mahonii, Baker. A shrub with finely pubescent slender 
branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate, 2-3 in. long, acute, 
cuneate at the base, distinctly crenate, membranous, green and nearly 
glabrous above, paler and finely pubescent beneath. Inflorescence race- 
mose, simple, lax; whorls 3—-4-flowered ; pedicels }—} in. long; bracts 
foliaceous, as long as the pedicels. Calyx } in. long, nearly glabrous; 
tube campanulate; teeth lanceolate, unequal, as long as the tube. 
Corolla lilac, } in. long; tube cylindrical; lips much shorter than the 
tube. Stamens shortly exserted. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Mahon! 
Described from a living plant raised from seeds sent by Mr. J. Mahon, which 
flowered at Kew in December, 1899. 
_ 37, ©, maranguensis, (iirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 216. A shrub, 
with hairy branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, membranous, suborbicular 
