Tar. 4754. 
COLEUS Buvumet. 
Bilume’s Coleus. 
Nat. Ord. Laprata2.—DipynamMia GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-campanulatas, fractifer, declinatus vel reflexus, rarius 
suberectus, fauce intus nuda vel hispida, quinquedentatus vel bilabiatus, dente 
supremo ovato membranaceo marginibus rarius decurrentibus, inferioribus angus- 
tioribus, omnibus acutis vel lateralibus ovato-truncatis, 2 infimis seepe inter se 
connatis. Corolla tubo exserto declinato, decurvo vel sepius defracto, fauce in- 
- flata vel eequali ; limbo bilabiato, labio superiore abbreviato obtuse 3—4-fido, infe- 
riore integro elongato concavo, seepius cymbiformi, genitalia involvente. Stamina 
4. Filamenta edentula, basi in tubum stylum vaginantem connexa. Stylus apice 
subulatus, aqualiter bifidus. Nucwle subrotundo-compresse, leves.—Herbee 
annue vel basi perennantes, rarius frutices. Verticillastri seaflori vel sepius mul- 
tiflori, nune densissimi, nunc lawt, cymbiformes; pedunculo communi utriusque cyme 
ramisve utringue binis, plus minusve elongatis. Folia floralia bracteeformia, ante 
anthesin ad apicem racemorum plus minusve comosa, per anthesin decidua vel rarius 
subpersistentia, reflexa. Species plerumque Asiaticr, perpauce African. Benth. 
Blumei ; foliis ovatis acuminatis grosse obtuse serratis basi acutis et 
integerrimis utrinque puberulis (superne maculis atro-purpureis pictis), ver- 
ticillastris distinctis, pedicellis racemosis secundis, calycis hirsuti labio infe- 
riore trifido, lacinia intermedia longiore semibifida. Benth. 
Cornus Blumei. Benth. Lab. p. 56. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 75. 
-PLECTRANTHUS scutellarioides. Blume, Bijdr. p. 837. (non Br.) 
Cou 
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ted for our first knowledge of this plant in a a 
Clapton Nursery, who received the — 
ive of Java; but even there, Blume 
e. Nothing is more easily cultivated, and no stove should 
_ be without it, for it flowers through the summ 
~ setting in of the winter. i 
Duscr. The plants in our possession vary from a foot to a foot 
DECEMBER Ist, 1853. aig 
