Tas. 8511. 
SOLENOSTEMON Goperroyar. 
Congo and Angola. 
LAsiatTaAr. Tribe OCIMOIDEAE. 
SoLENostEMon, Schum. & Thonn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1175. ; 
Solenostemon Godefroyae, N. E. Brown, species S. ocymoidi, Schum. & 
Thonn., affinis sed foliis minoribus et obtusioribus, calyce multo minore et 
corolla duplo majore conspicue differt. 
Herba ad 60 cm. alta, ramosa, ramis quadrangularibus minute puberulis 
viridibus. Folia opposita, utrinque minute puberula, viridia, subtus 
pallidiora; petiolus 1-2-3 cm. longus; lamina 2-4 em. longa, 2-4°5 cm. 
lata, latissime ovata vel deltoideo-ovata, basi truncata vel cuneato-truncata, 
leviter crenata, venis supra impressis subtus prominentibus. Lacemt 
terminales spiciformes, 15-20 cm. longi; verticilli subdistantes. Bracteae 
3-5 mm. longae, abrupte reflexae, deciduae, integrae et ovatae, canaliculati- 
acuminatae vel inferiores trilobae, lobis lateralibus dentatis. Pedicelli 
2mm. longi, minutissime puberuli. Calyx subaequaliter bilabiatus cum 
dentibus duobus minutis interjectis, minutissime puberulus, viridis; 
labium superius reflexum, ovatum, subacutum, labium inferius porrectum, 
oblongum, minute emarginatum; dentes laterales 0°5 mm. longi, acuti. 
Corolla 1 em. longa, coerulea; pars tubi basalis abrupte sursum curvata, 
pars superior abrupte deflexa, compresso-dilatata ; labium superius 1°5 mm. 
longum, subtruncatum, 4-crenatum; labium inferius 5 mm. longum, 
3°5 mm. profundum, lateraliter compressum, subobtusum. Stamina 
5 mm. longa, filamenta in vaginam 2 mm. longam connata, albida ; 
antherae violaceae. Sty/us staminibus longior.— Coleus Godefroyae, 
Godefroy-Lebeuf, Cat. Pl. Nouv. 1903, p. 2, cum icon.—N. E. Brown. 
The pleasing stove plant which is here figured belongs 
to the Labiate genus Solenostemon, which is very closely 
allied both to Plectranthus. and to Coleus, but is readily 
distinguished from these two genera by its subequally two- 
lipped calyx, the upper lip being entire, the lower minutely 
notched at the tip. Of the seven species known to belong to 
the genus, S. Godefroyae is the first to find a place in cultivated 
collections. First discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Monteiro 
in 1873, about fifteen miles from Ambriz 1m Angola, it 
was in the “Flora of Tropical Africa” referred to its 
proper genus, but was not distinguished from 4. ocymoides, 
Schum. & Thonn. ‘Thirty years later 1t was rediscovered 
in the Congo State by Mr. Godefroy-Lebeuf, and was 
treated by him in his Catalogue as a distinct species, 
though unfortunately Mr. Godefroy-Lebeuf, who at the 
Avceust, 1913. 
