624 CXII. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Plectranthus. 
Stem 1-2 feet. Leaves 1-2} in., narrowed into the petiole, rather coriaceous, 
nerves oblique. Fruiting calyx à in. Corolla and nutlets not seen.—The 
specimens are hardly fit for description, but the species is too remarkable to be 
passed over. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
or! P. PATCHOULI, Clarke mss.; tall, erect, branched, hirsutely tomentose, leaves 
petioled ovate-cordate crenate-toothed, cymes branched, flowers subsecundly sub- 
sessile on the branchlets of a loose panicle, calyx-teeth subequal, corolla-limb 
subclavate with a large incurved cymbiform obtuse lower lip and shorter narrow 
upper lip. 
ASSAM; Jenkins (Herb. Calcutt.). KnAsrA Mrs.; Johra, alt. 4000 ft., cult., 
Clarke. 
Stem stout, branched. Leaves 2-3 in., hairy on both surfaces. Cymes panicled, 
irregularly branched; bracts small, leafy; pedicels 4, in. or 0. Calyx hardly 
2-lipped, teeth acute. Corolla 13 in. tube slender, upper lip much shorter and 
narrower than the saccate obtuse lower, which is much larger than the tube.—** This, 
I am told, is the true Patchouli plant, and has the true scent, which Pogostemon 
Patchouli has not." C. B. Clarke. I have seen no fruit, and the inflorescence 1s 
very peculiar ; it may not be a Plectranthus. 
P.? MONTANUS, Benth. in Woll. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 17, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 
60; Wall. Cat. 2747; densely tomentose, stem short very robust, leaves shortly 
petioled ovate or rounded crenate very thick rugose, racemes dense-fld. pyramidate, 
branches very thick ascending, whorls close set but not confluent, flowers sessile or 
pedicelled, calyx 7; in. hemispheric with 5 triangular subacute teeth, nutlets suborbi- 
cular polished pale.—Mysore; at Nundydroug, Klein, Herb. Rottler.—Habit of 
P. coleoides, but calyx very different. The specimens are very imperfect, and have 
no corolla. 
HyssoPUs LOPHANTHOIDES, Ham. in Don Prodr. 110, referred to P. Gerardia- 
nus by Bentham, can hardly be that plant; a specimen of it from Hamilton more 
resémbles P. striatus, being very pubescent. It may, however, be a hairy form of 
P. Gerardianus. 
OCIMUM DENSIFLORUM, Roth Nov. Sp. 275, doubtfully referred by Bentham to 
P. rugosus, must be a very different plant, according to the description. 
P. norUNDIFOLIUS, Spreng. Syst. ii. 690; Benth. Lab. 34, and in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 65; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 148. Coleus? rugosus, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 
ii. 15, Germania rotundifolia, Poir. Dict. ii. 763. Nepeta madagascariensis, Lam. ? 
Dict. i. 712.—Kurka, Rheede Hort. Mal. xi. t. 25?—A reputed native of Mauriuus 
and Coromandel? The last habitat is no doubt founded on the supposed identity of 
the Mauritian with the plant figured by Rheede, which represents a flowerless tuberi- 
ferous herb which bas not been identified. Local botanists should be able to discover 
what Rheede’s plant is. 
9. COLEUS, Lour. 
Characters of Plectranthus, but filaments combined below into a sheath 
around the style.—Species about 50, Tropical African and Asiatic, and one 
Australian. 
* Calyz-throat villous within. 
1. C. spicatus, Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 15, Lab, 49, and 1n 
DC. Prodr. xii. 71; stem very stout villous with long spreading hairs or 
glabrate, leaves subsessile obovate ovate or orbicular glabrous fleshy entire 
or crenate, floral large concave deciduous, whorls in a dense cylindric spici- 
form villous thyrse, upper calyx-lip very broad truncate. Wight de. 
t. 1431; Wall. Cat. 2729. C. Heynii, Benth. Lab. 50, and in DC. l. c. C. 
Zatarhendi, Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 206; ? Benth. Lab. 50, Plectranthus 
