344 MERRILL. 



mate branchlets, the middle one of each triad sessile or sub- 

 sessile, the two lateral ones pedicelled; bracts triangular-ovate, 

 acute, 1.5 mm long, deciduous. Calyx cup-shaped, about 2.5 mm 

 long, very slightly appressed-pubescent, truncate or very ob- 

 scurely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube about 6 mm long, villous v^ithin, 

 outside densely brown-pubescent above, the upper lip 2-lobed, the 

 lobes oblong-ovate, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the lower lip much larger, 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe orbicular, 5 mm in diameter, the two 

 lateral ones oblong-ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long, both lips densely 

 brown-pubescent on both surfaces. Filaments villous below. 

 Style 10 mm long. 



Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Tangob, For. Bur. 195^6 Klemme, May 

 7, 1911, growing near the mountains, locally known to the Visayans as 

 tugaspan or sasalit. 



A species well characterized by its 3- and 5-foliolate leaves, the lower 

 two leaflets, when present, much reduced, its axillary, peduncled cymes, trun- 

 cate calyx, and densely pubescent corolla. It is most closely allied to 

 Vitex pentaphylla Merr., but is apparently sufficiently distinct from that 

 species. 



LABIATAE. 



COLEUS Lour. 



COLEUS AMBOINICUS Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 372. 



Marrubium album Amboinicum Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 5 (1747) 294, 



t. 102, f. 2. 

 Coleus aromaticus Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 15, Lab. Gen. 



Sp. (1832-36) 51, DC. Prodr. 12 (1848) 72; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 



Ind. 4 (1885) 635; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 163. 

 Coleus suganda Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 483, ed. 2 (1845) 337; Miq. 



Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1856) 948. 



Luzon, Manila, Merrill 7568, sterile specimen. 



This species is found in the Philippines only in cultivation, and is locally 

 known by the Tagalog name suganda, and the Spanish name oregano. Its 

 probable origin is the Malayan region, and it is certainly of prehistoric 

 introduction in the Philippines. The species very rarely produces flowers 

 in the Philippines, a fact already noted by Blanco. Although this species 

 has been known to me many years I have never seen a flowering specimen 

 and hence have hesitated in considering it. Material of the above number 

 was sent to Kew for comparison, eliciting the statement that the leaf 

 specimens supplied agree with Ceylon material of Coleus amboinicus, and 

 with the figure given by Rumphius. Although no Philippine flowering 

 material is available I consider the specimens certainly to represent Blanco's 

 Coleus suganda, which species is identical with Coleus aromaticus Benth. = 

 Coleus amboinicus Lour., a reduction already made by F.-Villar. Coleus 

 amboinicus Lour, was based in part on botanical material from plants 

 cultivated in Cochichina, and on several references to pre-Linnean liter- 

 ature including the description and plate given by Rumphius, which he 

 erroneously cites as I. 8 c. 75. tab. 72, the reference apparently taken from 



