620 cxi. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Plectranthus. 
or glabrate, leaves ovate crenate narrowed into the winged petiole, cymes 
in lax-fld. panicled racemes, corolla-tube much shorter than the large saccate 
lower lip, fruiting calyx narrow shortly 2-lipped, teeth acute, nutlets oblong 
or subglobose. Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 17, Lab. 42, and in DC. 
Prodr. xii. 58 (excl. syn. Burm.); Wall. Cat. 2743. Ocimum Coetsa, Spreng. 
Syst., Cur. post. 223. 
TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Murree to Mishmi, alt. 3-8000 ft., 
abundant. KmuasiA Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft. ; Burma, Wallich. 
A tall strong-smelling 6-8 ft. undershrub. Leaves 1-3 in. Cymes very numerous, 
branchlets subsecund. Corolla } iv., lavender-blue ; upper lip very short. Stamens 
included in the lower lip. Fruiting calyx wg in., hoary or scaberulous.  JVutlets 
apparently variable. 
Var. Hookeri; tall, leaves sometimes 5 in. glabrous or puberulous, fruiting calyx 
larger 4-} in. very broad, teeth longer more acute, nutlets twice aslarge. Plectran- 
thus no. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. P. Hookeri, Clarke mss.—Khasia Mts. ; 
Moflong, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
18. P. menthoides, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 17, Lab. 42, and 
in DC. Prodr. xii. 59; tall, erect, branched, hoary pubescent or tomentose, 
leaves petioled ovate crenate narrowed into the winged petiole, cymes 1n 
long racemes dense or lax-fld., corolla short, tube about as long as the 
saccate lower lip. fruiting calyx hoary, teeth subequal subacute, nutlets 
oblong. Wall. Cat. 2744. P. Macraei, Benth. Lab. 42, and in DC. l c.; 
Wight Ic. t. 1430. P. rugosus, B. tomentosus, Benth. in. Wall. l. c. n. 17; 
Wall, Cat. 2745 B. P. Coetsa, Thwaites Enum. 237. Scutellaria japonica, 
Burm. FL Ind. 130. 
SovrH Deccan PENINSULA, from Belgaum southward; Nilghiri and Pulney 
Mts., by wet ditches, Wight. CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. 
The southern representative of P. Coetsa, and probably only a variety of that 
plant. The length of the corolla-tube is variable, as is tbe pubescence of the leaves. 
19. P. Maddeni, Benth. in Strach. Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 86; stout, erect, 
branched, nearly glabrous, leaves ovate crenate narrowed into the winged 
petiole, cymes in lax- or dense-fld. racemes, corolla-tube much shorter than 
the saccate lower lip, fruiting calyx broadly campanulate glabrous, teeth 
obtuse, nutlets subglobose. 
TEMPERATE HiMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 7-8500 ft., Strachey d Winterbottom, 
Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Very near P. Coetsa, and perhaps a form of it, but more glabrous, with broader 
fruiting calyces, which have obtuse teeth and more rounded nutlets. 
20. P. melissoides, Benth. Lab. 39, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 62; 
herbaceous, erect, tomentose or puberulous, leaves small sessile or shortly 
petioled ovate or rounded crenate, cymes in lax-fld. slender racemes, corolla- 
tube short broad, fruitin lyx 2-lipped subhispid, teeth acute, nutlets 
globose. Wall. Cat. 7225 YT Tees smoisphos 100 
Kaastra Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft. ; Wallich, Mack, Griffith, H. f. § T , &c. 
Stem 1-2 ft., rather slender, strict. Leaves 3-1 iv., glabrate or very tomentose 
beneath or on both surfaces, narrowed into the short petiole. Racemes long, slender, 
strict. Corolla | in., pink; lips short, gibbously hemispheric. Fruiting calyx 
4 in., broadly campanulate, 
21. P. rugosus, Wall Pl. As. Rar. ii. 17, and Cat. 2745; shrubby, 
erect, hoary with stellate down, leaves small petioled ovate or elliptic obtuse 
erenate rugose above beneath densely white-tomentose, cymes axillary lax- 
