324 LABIATiE. 



Nilg'ris : near Ootacamund on Snowdon and below. 

 Bourne 4633. 



Plcctranthus urticifclius Hoolz, j.; Wight Herb, 

 Prop. 622 ! ; F.B.L iv 622, VIII 28 ; Nettle-leafed Giant 

 Cockspur. Stem stout, to 4 or 5 feet, pubescent in the 

 younger parts, nearly glabrous below. Leaf-stalks 2 

 inches : blades 3 to 6 inches long and broad, broadly 

 ovate, with large rounded teeth % inch deep, themselves 

 crenate ; when young densely pubescent or tomentose 

 underneath, becoming nearly or even quite glabrous 

 with age ; thin. Cymes, at least the lower, stalked. 

 Calyx 1/12 inch, campanulate. Corolla % inch, with 

 slender tube and inflated mouth, very distinctly two- 

 lipped, much decurved. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal, by road-sides in rich cool soil. 

 Fpon 314. Bourne 11 43, 2035. 



COLEUS. F.B.1. 112 IX. 



Flame-Nettle. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees with the characters of the 



family and tribe I OCIMOIDEM (p. 321), and remarkable 



for the often coloured bracts and the large underlip of 



the corolla in which lie the stamens, and peculiar in the 



filaments of the stamen being connected together at the 



lower end into a sheath split down the upper side and 



wrapping round the style. 



Spec^'es about 120 in tropical and sub-tropical regions of 

 the Old World especially Africa, the India and Malay archi- 

 pelagoes, and extending to Australia and the Pacific islands. 



C. bicolor and C. laciniatus are cultivated in gardens. Ger, Buntlippe. 



Colcus barbatus Benth. ; F.BJ. iv 625, IX 2. Stem 

 I to 2 feet, woody at the base, hispidly tomentose. 

 Leaves stalked, ovate, crenate, narrowed to the base, 

 softly hairy on both sides. Flowers sessile in whorls of 

 about six, at intervals iij an unbranched spike 6 to IZ 



