Coleus.] Cx. LABIATÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 
CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 6-8000 ft., Macrae, &c. 
Stem stout, green. Leaves 2-5 in., petiole 1-2 in. Racemes or branches of the 
panicle 3-6 in.; pedicels short. Corolla 1 in. long, pale lilac, slightly decurved at the 
middle, tube slender, as long as the cylindric throat, lips very short, upper crenate 
larger than the small ovate acute lower. 
10. ANISOCHILUS, Wall. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers small, in dense oblong 4-gonal or cylin- 
dric spikes. Calyx suberect, inflated below the middle, 2-lipped or 5-toothed, 
rarely 1-lipped, upper lip entire and deflexed or short and 3-crenate. Corolla 
2-lipped ; tube slender, decurved; throat inflated ; upper lip short, entire 
or 3-4-fid ; lower elongate, concave. Stamens 4, filaments free. Style 2-fid. 
Disc lobed.—DisTRIB. Species about 16, Asiatic. 
* Fruiting calyx with the upper lip large, broad, entire, deflexed, con- 
cealing the mouth, lower truncate obscurely toothed. 
l. A. carnosus, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 18, Cat. 2753; annual, erect, 
glabrous or tomentose, leaves petioled ovate oblong or rounded obtuse 
crenate fleshy, floral ovate obtuse, fruiting spikes 4-gonous then cylindric 
obtuse, calyx glabrous pubescent or ciliate, lip deflexed ovate acute ciliate. 
Benth. Lab. 59, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 81; Wight Ill. t. 176 b, £.1; Grah. 
Cat. Bomb. PL. 148; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 206. A. crassus, Benth. in. 
DC. l.e. A. glaber, Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Goett. 1833,1. A. rupestris, 
Wight Cat. 2521. Plectranthus strobiliferus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45, and in 
l. Ind. iii. 93. P. carnosus, Smith in Rees Cyclop. v. 27. P. dubius, 
Spr. Syst. ii. 691. Lavandula carnosa, Linn. Amen. Acad. x. 56, t. 3. 
Origanum watariense, Ic. Roxb.— Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 90. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon and Garwhal, ascending to 8000 ft., Edgeworth, 
and throughout CENTRAL and SOUTHERN INDIA to Travancore and CEYLON.— 
ISTRIB. Ava. 
Stem 1-2 ft., stout, 4-angled. Leaves 2-3 in., rugose, sometimes densely tomen- 
tose; petiole 41-2 in. Spikes long-peduncled, 1-3 in. long, 1-2 in. diam. ; flowers 
in. long, pale purple. Calya-tube very variable in length, glabrous or pubescent; 
Upper lip sometimes with the tip erect throughout the spike.—A protean plant, the 
varieties of which I fail to distinguish by good characters. 2. a 
AR. purpurascens, Benth., from Ava, has narrow purple cylindric spikes an 
‘Very short calyces. . 
ARR. glabrior and villosior, Benth., explain themselves. . 
AR. e. Pviridis, Benth. (A. rupestris, Wight), is founded on an immature 
Plant with the habit of 4. eriocephalus. A. crassus, Benth., differs in no way from 
e type. 
2. A. scaber, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 81; shrubby, hoary-tomen- 
tose, leaves small petioled oblong obtuse crenulate thick, peduncles very 
long stout, spikes 1-3 oblong, calyx pubescent, lip deflexed ovate obtuse 
late, 
Drcoan PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight. . 
Branches short, stout, ascending from a woody stem. Leaves 1-1} in., densely 
‘tomentose beneath. Peduncles 6-12 in. ; spikes 1-1} by j in., purplish when dry. 
|Valyz-tube very short ; upper lip glabrous except the ciliate margins. 
| 3. A. eriocephalus, Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 81; herbaceous, 
glabrous or puberulous, leaves petioled broadly ovate or cordate crenate, 
P eduncles slender, spikes many ovoid or cylindric, calyx villous or woolly, 
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