674 CXIL LABIATE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Colquhounia. 
38. COLQUHOUNIA, Wail. 
Tall, robust, rambling shrubs; branches terete. Whorls axillary and in 
lax-fld. spikes or racemes of orange or scarlet flowers. Calyx obscurely 10- 
nerved, subequally 5-toothed, throat naked. Corolla-tube incurved, not 
annulate, throat inflated; upper lip short, entire or notched, lower sub- 
equally 3-lobed. Stamens 4, ascending; anthers conniving in pairs; cells 
divaricate, confluent. Style subequally 2-fid. Nutlets winged above.— 
Species 3 or 4, Indian. 
I am quite unable to distinguish the first three species, or to reconcile their 
specimens, descriptions and published drawings with one another. 
1. G. coccinea, Wall. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 608; Tent. Fl. Nap. 
i. 13, t. 6, and Cat. 2085; branches tomentose, leaves elliptic ovate or cor- 
date glabrate or subtomentose, calyx 4-3 in. hoary. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 457; Bot. Mag. t. 4514. C. tomentosa, Houllet in Rev. Hortic. 1873, 
131, with fig. 
I QPMTERATE HIMALAYA; from Kumaon, Wallich, to Sikkim, alt. 7-9000 ft., 
A shrub, 8-10 ft. Leaves 2-5 in., very variable in form and clothing. Flowers 
in an original drawing named by Wallich, and in the Tentamen figure, chiefly axillary, 
with a short subhemispheric calyx 4 in. long (Bentham's var. 8 parviflora), and dull 
red corolla with the broad cylindric tube not twice the length of the calyx; m 
Wallieh's and other specimens the flowers are very different, both axillary and in 
terminal spikes, the calyx and corolla are both twice as long, and the latter has à 
narrow tube. The plant figured in the Botanical Magazine, which was raised from 
seed sent by Wallich, has flowers all axillary, small calyces, a corolla 3 in. long, 
funnel-shaped above the calyx, with much narrower orange-red lobes, the latter 
golden yellow at the base and in the throat.—Wutlets à in. long, wing obliquely 
truncate. 
2. C. vestita, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nap. i. 14; Plant. As. Rar. iii. 43, 
t. .267, and Cat. 2086; densely clothed with thick white wool, leaves 
elliptic ovate or cordate, calyx i-i in. woolly. Benth. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 457. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 6-8000 ft.; Bhotan and Mishmi, Gr iffth. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 5-7000 ft.; Griffith, &c. 
This, I suspect, is only a woolly variety of C. coccinea, which, owing to the wetness 
of the climate, does not occur in Sikkim. Wallich’s figure, however, represents a plant 
of very different habit from that of C. coccinea, having long subracemose terminal spikes 
of rose-pink flowers 14 in. long. Of the specimens both from Kumaon and the Kho 
many agree with the plate; others with smaller more axillary flowers and less cloth 
leaves pass into C. coccinea. Khasia specimens have often very thick leaves finely 
rugose on the upper surface, and densely cottony beneath. 
3. C. elegans, Wail. Pl. As. Rar. i. 65, iii. 43, t. 268, and Cat. 2084; 
densely softly tomentose, leaves shortly petioled, flowers iu small axillary 
heads, calyx 4 in. subhemispheric, corolla-tube broad thrice as long as the 
calyx. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xi. 457. 
Burma; on Taong Dong, Wallich. . 
Probably only another variety of C. coccinea, which I cannot distinguish from 
Bentham's var. parviflora of that plant, except in the longer corolla. 
e * 4 c. tenuiflora, Hook. f; branches scaberulous and hirsute, leave? 
elliptic serrate pubescent, flowers subcapitate on very short lateral villous 
branches, calyx 4 in., teeth acuminate, corolla 1 in. very slender densely 
pubescent. 
