Coleus. } CII. LABIATE (BAKER). 435 
or broadly ovate, 1-2 in. long, subobtuse, narrowed to the base, serrate, 
clothed with adpressed hairs on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, long, 
terminal ; whorls remote, lax, few-flowered ; pedicels }—4 in. long, clothed, 
like the axis and calyx, with very long fine glandular hairs; bracts 
ovate. Calyx } in. long; throat naked inside; upper tooth ovate, 
acute ; edges shortly decurrent; other teeth lanceolate, acute. Corolla- 
tube deflexed ; lower lip long, boat-shaped. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; near Marangu, 5000 ft., 
Volkens, 630. 
38. C. igniarius, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 121. Shrubby, 
with thick terete woody branches, without leaves at the time of flower- 
ing. Leaves petioled, broadly ovate, subacute, deeply crenate, 2 in. long, 
Subglabrous above, pubescent beneath. Whorls 3-5, approximate ; 
lowest 10-15-flowered ; pedicels pubescent, finally 1 in. long. Calyx 
zz in. long ; tube campanulate ; upper tooth ovate ; lower teeth shorter, 
deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla above 4 in. long. Stamens longer than the 
lower lip, recurved. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Arrot Valley, 4300 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1122! 
1398! Abyssinia: on mountains near Debli-Dikeno, 4000 ft., Schimper. 
Introduced into cultivation by Dr. Schweinfurth in 1894, 
39. C. ghindanus, Schweinf. Pl. Abyss. Sept. Hxsicc, No. 2149, An 
undershrub, with pubescent woody branchlets. Leaves produced after 
the flowers, distinctly petioled, ovate, 2 in. long, irregularly crenate, 
not cordate at the base, rather fleshy, green and thinly pubescent on 
both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, lax, moderately long (the end 
branch 5-6 in. long); whorls umbellate, many-flowered ; pedicels 
slender, rigid, erecto-patent, pubescent, finally 4—-} in. long. Fruit- 
calyx pubescent, 4 in. long; tube campanulate ; upper tooth ovate ; 
lower rather longer, lanceolate-cuspidate. Corolla in. long; lower 
lip as long as the tube. Stamens as long as the lower lip. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: in the great valley of Ginda, 3000-4200 ft., Schwein- 
furth, 2149! 
40. ©. Malinvaldi, Briquet in Ann. Jard. Genév. ii. (1898) 240. A 
shrub, destitute of leaves at the flowering time, with divaricate branches 
and brown bark. Leaves distinctly petioled, broadly ovate, subobtuse, 
1-2 in. long, fleshy, obscurely toothed, green and pubescent on both 
sides. Whorls 6—10-flowered, 2—6 in a racemose panicle ; pedicels long, 
finely pubescent ; bracts minute, deciduous. Calyx campanulate, § in. 
long in flower; upper lip ovate, obscurely cuspidate, not cecurrent ; 
lower teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla 3 in. longer than the a yx5 
lower lip } in. long.—Plectranthus Malinvaldi, Briquet in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. ii, 125. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: 
1854 collection, 
at Debli-Dikeno, 3500-4500 ft., Schimper, 529 of 
