374 Labiatce. {Cole«s, 



soon falling ; cal. with long white hair outside, upper lip 

 ovate, acute, lower lip with 4 straight, narrowly triangular, 

 very acute, ciliate segm. about as long as upper lip; cor.-tube 

 very short, compressed, upper lip of 4 very small, shallow, 

 erect lobes, lower lip large, A in., stalked, boat-shaped, first 

 deflexed then horizontal, hairy outside, acute; stam. declinate; 

 fruiting cal. considerably enlarged, upper lip cuspidate, veiny, 

 decurrent on tube, erect, mouth with a dense tuft of white 

 woolly hair above ; achenes globular -compressed, black, 

 shining. 



Low country, in exposed rocky places up to 5000 ft.; rather common. 

 Hantane; DambuUa; Galagama ; Palagama, and other places in Uva, 

 locally abundant. Fl. April, August ; rich purple. 



A desirable plant for cultivation ; fl. occasionally white, scent 

 aromatic, but not very agreeable. 



C. parviflorus, Benth. {Plectranthus iuberosiis, Bl., Thw. Enum. 238), 

 is cultivated for its edible tubers, known as ' Innala,' or 'Country Potato.' 

 It is C. P. 2068, but is not a native. It is given in Moon Cat. 43 as 

 Nepcta fiiadagascariensis. Lam., and is well figured (but without fl.) in 

 Rheede, Hort. Mai. t. 25 under the name ' Kurka.' The figure in 

 Rumph. Herb. Amboin. v. t. 132, f. i, seems to be the same, and Ceylon 

 may have got the plant from Malaya. Plectrafithus ternatus^ Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2460 (from Madagascar originally) is probably the same. The fl. are 

 pale violet, and the leaves succulent and lemon-scented. 



C. aromaticiis^ Benth., is cultivated in native gardens under the name 

 ' Kapura-walliya,' and is C. P. 3971 from DambuUa Hill, where is a large 

 patch in a semi-wild state. It is much employed as a medicine, 

 especially for cattle, and a plant is always to be found growing in a little 

 box suspended on the side of the native carts. Hermann mentions the 

 plant (Mus. 62), and there is a fairly good figure in Bot. Reg. t. 1520. If 

 this be the original C. a/nboinicjes of Loureiro, as seems probable, the 

 plant should take that earlier name. The English in India call this 

 'Borage' (to which it has very little resemblance), from its use in cool 

 tankards, &c. 



2. C. malabaricus, Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 16 (1831). 



C. Macrcci, Benth. Lab. 58. C. IValkeri, Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. JJ. 

 C. mollis, Benth. 1. c. jj. Thw. Enum. 238. C. P. 2066, 2995, 3435 (=17 

 part). 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 626. Bot. Mag. t. 4690 (C Macrcei.) 



Stem 2-3 ft., stout, succulent, quadrangular, glabrous or 

 pubescent; 1. 3-6 in. (or more), ovate-oval, acute or obtuse at 

 base, acuminate, obtuse, shallowly crenate-serrate, glabrous 

 or pubescent, petiole long, 2-4 in., fl. rather large, on short 

 glabrous or pubescent ped., cymes raccmo.sc, bifurcate, shortly 

 stalked, in broad terminal panicles, bracts large, ovate, acute, 

 deciduous; cal. small, but greatly enlarged in fruit, upper lip 

 broadly oval, acute, lower lip with lat. segm. short, broadly tri- 

 angular, mucronate, and 2 lowest lanceolate, long, mucronate ; 



