Coleus.| CII. LABIATA (BAKER). 441 
61. ©. Marquesii, Briqguet in Ann. Jard. Genev. ii. (1898) 239. 
A shrub, with ascending branches, clothed with crisped hairs, Leaves 
petioled, broadly ovate, 2-4 in. long, acuminate, membranous, dull 
green and pubescent above, clothed with grey tomentum beneath, 
membranous. Cymes compound, 10-15-flowered, forming long lax 
racemose panicies ; pedicels long, clothed with crisped hairs and stalked 
glands ; bracts ovate, deciduous. Flower-calyx zs—} in. long, clothed 
with glands and spreading hairs ; upper tooth ovate, violet ; lateral teeth 
short, narrow, obtuse ; lower longer, acute, connate nearly to the apex. 
Corolla violet, protruding nearly 1 in. from the throat of the calyx. 
Stamens included. Style exserted.—Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 
Xvi. 70. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in the valleys of the Kuango and Cuillo (? Kuilu) 
Rivers, Marques, 191. 
62. C. aconitiflorus, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 866. 
A tall much-branched herb, 3-4 ft. high, with square glabrous stems and 
ascending branches. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, membranous, crenate, 
glabrous, cuneate and entire at the base, the lower 3-4 in. long, 143-2 in. 
broad at the middle. Branches each bearing at the end a long lax narrow 
panicle, with several flowers crowded at the end of the short erecto- 
patent branchlets ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Calyx campanu- 
late, pubescent, 1, in. long; teeth ovate, small, subequal. Corolla 
2 in. long; tube slender, much longer than the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: province of Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5495! 
63. C. Briquetii, Baker. A tall branched herb, with green 
glabrescent stems. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, acuminate, narrowed to the base, serrate, membranous, 
green and glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescence racemose, long, 
dense at the middle; whorls many-flowered ; cymes shortly peduncled, 
not umbellate; pedicels } in. long. Calyx in flower lin. long, in fruit 
much larger; upper tooth ovate, decurrent; lateral teeth orbicular ; 
lower acuminate, connate in the lower half. Corolla protruded } in. from 
the throat of the calyx ; lower lip }—} in. long. Stamens not exserted.— 
C. Schweinfurthii, Briquet in Engl. Jahrb, xix. 181, not of Vatke. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Bongo territory, Schweinfurth, 2490! 
64. GC. montanus, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 218. Stems 
branched, pubescent, 14-2 ft. long. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 
1-1} in, long, the upper sessile, the lower shortly stalked, acute, 
rounded or narrowed to the base, crenate, pubescent on both sides, 
dotted with black glands beneath. Inflorescence racemose, lax j cymes 
long-peduncled, 3-5-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate ; pedicels 5-5 in. 
long. Fruit-calyx } in. long, glandular-pubescent outside, naked on t e 
throat inside; upper tooth round-ovate, obtuse; lateral teeth rather 
shorter, lanceolate, acuminate ; lower longer, almost subulate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons, near Buea, 7000 ft., Preuss, 1012. 
