XCTIII. LABIATvE. 447 



2. Plectranthus Coetsa, Buch.-Uam. ex D. Don, Fh Nep. (1825) 

 p. 117. A tall erect mucli-bninched strong-smelliug pereunial herb 

 3-5 ft. high ; stems stout, quadrangular, often tinged with red and as 

 well as the branches softly pubescent or tomentose. Leaves 11-4 by 

 |— If in., ovate, acute, serrate-dentate, softly pubescent above, white- 

 pubescent or white-tomentose beneath, base tapering into the petiole ; 

 main nerves and reticulate venation conspicuous beneath ; petioles |-i 

 in. long, stout, woolly. Flowers in numerous short cymes, in long 

 axillary and terminal pubescent racemose panicles ; pedicels slender, 

 detlexed, pubescent. Calyx in flower -^y~^ i^^- long, hoary-pubescent, 

 in fruit g in. long, 10-ribbed ; tube cylindric, curved upwards below the 

 limb ; teeth subequal, ovate-deltoid, acute. Corolla ^-1 in. long, pale 

 violet, pubescent outside ; tube deflexed ; upper lip shorter than the 

 tube, broad, erect with shallow rounded lobes ; lower lip longer than 

 the upper, boat-shaped. Stamens included within the lower lip of the 

 corolla. Nutlets ^V ^^- lo^g? broadly ellipsoid or suborbicular, compressed, 

 smooth, yellow. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 619. Plectrantlms mentlwides, Benth. 

 in Wall.Pl. As. Ear. v. 2 (1831) p. 17 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 620 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 372 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 360. P. Macraei, Benth. Lab. p. 42 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1430 (by error 

 in Tab. Pleihianthus). — iFlowers : Dec.-Feb. 



Eare. Konkan : Stocks ! Deccan : Panehgaui, Woodrow ! ; Sinhagad, Woodrow ! — 

 DisTRiB. India (temjjerate and subtropical Himalaja, Khasia Mountains, Birma, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



3. Plectranthus incanus, Linh, Emim. ffort. Berol. v. 2 (1822) 

 p. 120. An erect finely pubescent herb, 1-2| ft. high ; stem thick and 

 fleshy below. Leaves 2-4^ in. long and nearly as broad as long, broadly 

 ovate, acute, crenate, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath, base deeply cordate; petioles 1-3 in. long, finely pubescent. 

 Flowers in few-flowered cymes sometimes reduced to a single flower, 

 in racemes 3-8 in. long sometimes paniculately branched below ; 

 peduncles of the cymes very short or almost ; bracts small, ovate, 

 cuneate ; pedicels in flower ^-^ in. long, lengthened in fruit, finely 

 pubescent. Calyx in flower ^ in. long, in fruit exceeding | in. long to 

 top of longest lower tooth, conspicuously pubescent on the nerves; upper 

 lip broad, erect, rounded, entire, much shorter than the lower teeth, 

 reticulately veined ; lower lip 4-toothed, the teeth veined, lanceolate, 

 with subulate points, the 2 lower longer than the 2 lateral. Corolla 

 g in. long, pale-lilac or light-blue ; tube decurved about the middle ; lobes 

 of the upper lip very shallow, rounded ; lower lip boat-shaped, about 

 i in. long. Stamens included within the lower lip. Nutlets subglobose, 

 nearly -^^ in, in diam., pale-brown dotted with dark purple-brown spots, 

 smooth. Bentham (Lab. p. 36) erroneously describes the root as 

 tuberous (see N. E. Brown, in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 13). Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 621 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 361 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PL p. 846. Plectranthus cordifoUus, Don, Prodr. (1821) p. 116 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 148 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 205.— Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 

 Vebn. Ldl-agdda. 



Konkan: ^&\nntvi\i\\, Sfocksi], I)al::eU l^- Gihaon; Dapoli, iV«/;-wr. Deccan: Khan- 

 dala, Graham, Woodrow, Dahell ^- Gibson; Bowdhan 8 miles from Poona, Cooke \, 

 Kanitkar\; Pashan near Poona, ifawar/e ! S.M. Country: Belgaum, ^iYc7i/e, 547 1 — 

 DiSTRiB. More or less throughout India especially on the hills. 



