Coleus. | CII. LABIAT# (BAKER). 439 
compound ; pedicels reaching }in. long, Flower-calyx pubescent, } in. 
long ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube; lateral teeth oblong, as 
long as the upper ; lower short, linear. Corolla } in. long; lower lip 
as long as the tube.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 866. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Huilla, Welwitsch, 5612! 
54. C. alpinus, Vathe in Linnea, xxxvii. 322. Stem 3 ft. long, 
herbaceous, erect, shortly pubescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, 
crenate, 3-4 in. long, truncate at the base. Inflorescence racemose, 
dense upwards ; cymes shortly peduncled ; pedicels as long as the fruit- 
calyx, Calyx with an ovate upper tooth; lower teeth short, lanceolate. 
Corolla 5 times the length of the calyx.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr, 361, 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; on mountains at Edda Jesus, near Debra 
Tabor, 9000 ft., Schimper. 
99. ©. Autrani, Briquet in Bull. Herb. Boiss, ii. 129. An erect 
herb, with long simple stems, obscurely pubescent upwards, Leaves 
petioled, ovate, acute, crenate, membranous, 3-4 in. long, slightly hairy. 
Inflorescence racemose, long, dense upwards, lax in the lower half ; 
whorls many-flowered, dense, sessile, slightly compound ; pedicels } in. 
long. Flower-calyx pubescent, } in, long; upper tooth ovate; lower 
teeth short, broad. Corolla ? in. long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Schimper, 693 of 1853 col- 
lection ! 
96. C. Schweinfurthii, Vatke in Linnea, xxxvii. 323 in obs. 
Nearly allied to @. latifolius, from which it differs by its creeping root- 
stock, in its leaves round-ovate, deeply crenate, truncate at the base, and 
in its densely softly villoso-lanate and longer pedicels.—Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 361. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab; on basaltic hills, 4500-7000 ft., Hildebrandt, 
438. Abyssinia : Bellaka, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper. 
57. C. repens, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 213. Stems creeping 
at the base, rooting at the nodes, pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, 
membranous, suborbicular, 4-1 in. long and broad, rounded or narrowec 
to the base, obtuse, deeply crenate, subglabrous or with a few adpresse 
hairs on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, very short ; whorls remote, 
4—6-flowered ; cymes shortly stalked ; bracts ovate, subacute; pedicels 
a-} in, long, pubescent like the calyx. Calyx naked inside at the 
throat, above } in, long in fruit; upper tooth broadly ovate, obtuse, 
its edges not decurrent ; lateral teeth shorter, oblong, subacute ; ower 
very long, subulate; connate downwards. Corolla whitish, with a 
purple lower lip. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in forest near Buea, 4000 ft., Preuss, 949, 
58. C. nyikensis, Buker. A much-branched erect low under: 
shrub, with pubescent woody branches. Leaves contemporary with i re 
flowers, shortly petioled, very small, ovate, obtuse, entire, not cordate 
