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Plectranthus comosus. Tufted 

 Plectranthus. 



C&m cnrf Order. 



DlOYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 2-labiatus, labio inferiore diviso, striattis : fructifer 

 basi subtui gibbosus. Cor. labium superius 3-fidum, lacinia 

 media biloba : inferius longius, integrum (plerumque con- 

 cavum). Stamina declinata, filamentis cdentulis (nunc basi 

 eonnatis) : antheris unilocularibus, imberbibus. Brown. 



Specific Character. 



Plectranthus comosus ; floribus verticillatis sessilibus, ca- 

 lycis labio inferiore quadripartite-, bracteis cordatis 

 acuminatis caducis. 



Descr. Stem square, obtuse-angled. Leaves ovate-ob- 

 long, crenate, covered with white adpressed hairs on the 

 upper surface and tomentose on the under. Flowers in ter- 

 minal, verticillate spikes, before expansion almost concealed 

 by large cordate, concave, acuminate hractcs, which fall oft' 

 as the flowers open and leave the whorls naked. Calyx 

 hairy, two-lipped : lower lip divided into four equal seg- 

 ments. Corolla two-lipped : upper-lip short emarginate 

 with two furrows: lower contracted above the gibbous 

 tube, then expanded, boat-shaped, hairy on the outside. 

 Style exserted : stamens inclosed : anthers violet coloured, 

 with orange-coloured pollen. 



We believe this to be hitherto an undescribed species of 

 Plectranthus ; raised from seeds supposed to be from Na- 

 paul, at the Fulham Nursery, by Messrs. Whitley, Bra me 

 and Milne. We tind a specimen very much like it, without 

 the bract es, in our friend Mr. Lambert's herbarium, from 

 the Mysore, collected by Francis Hamilton, M. D. late 

 Buchanan. 



