same time supplied a figure of the plant, placed it in the 
genus Coleus. A plant in flower was sent to Kew in 
November, 1903, by Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, and 
in 1911 another plant was supplied to Kew by the Jardin 
Colonial, Lacken. From the last mentioned plant, which 
has thriven well when grown in an intermediate tempera- 
ture along with Begonias, where it forms a shrub two feet 
high which flowers freely throughout the winter, was 
derived the material on which our figure has been based. 
Description.— Herb, up to 2 ft. high, branched; branches 
4-angled, finely puberulous, green. Leaves opposite, finely 
puberulous on both sides, green, rather paler beneath, 
¢-1} in. long, 3-13 in. wide, very wide ovate or deltoid 
ovate, base truncate or cuneate-truncate, slightly crenate ; 
nerves sunk above, raised beneath ; petiole 4-14 in. long. 
Racemes terminal, spiciform, 6-8 in. long; whorls some- 
what separated ; bracts 13-23 lin. long; abruptly reflexed, 
eciduous, entire, ovate, channelled-acuminate or the lowest 
3-lobed with toothed lateral lobes ; pedicels 1 lin. long, very 
finely puberulous. Calyx subequally 2-labiate with 2 very 
minute intercalary teeth, very finely puberulous, green; 
upper lip reflexed, ovate, subacute, lower lip straight, oblong, 
finely emarginate, lateral teeth very short, acute. Corolla 
3 In. long, blue ; basal portion of the tube abruptly upcurved, 
“pper portion abruptly deflexed, flattened-dilated ; upper 
li very short, subtruncate, crenately 4-toothed ; lower lip 
23 lin. long, nearly 2 lin. deep, compressed sideways, nearly 
blunt. Stamens 24 lin. long, filaments white, united in a 
sheath 1 lin. long; anther violet. Style longer than the 
stamens. 
Fig. 1, portion of the stem; 2, a flower; 3, calyx with pistil and gland; 
4, co: 
ae set ik of the lower lip removed to show the stamens ; 5 and 6, anthers :— 
