Coleus.] cii. LABiAT.E (baker). 425 



1. C. aquaticus, Gilrke in Knyl. JaJtrb. xix. 218. A perennial 

 herb, with stems 1 i-2 ft. long, glabrescent below, clothed upwards 

 with long spreading glandular hairs. Leaves shortly petioled or 

 subsessile, ovate, membranous, 2-8 in. long, 1-1^- in. broad, acute, 

 narrowed to the base, serrate, quite glabrous on both sides. Panicle 

 racemose, simple, terminal ; whorls 8-10-flowered, the lower remote ; 

 pedicels J— J in. long, clothed like the axis and calyx with long spread- 

 ing glandular hairs ; bracts ovate, acute. Flower-calyx J-J in. long ; 

 upper tooth ovate-lanceolate, acute; edges not decurrent ; lateral rather 

 shorter, lanceolate, acute; lowest as long as the upper, lanceolate, 

 acuminate. 



Mozamb. JJlst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 5000-7500 ft., I'olkpm, 

 583, 860. 



2. C. glandulosus, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 211. A 

 branched herb, with erect pubescent slender stems r)-6 ft. long. Leaves 

 sessile or nearly sessile, ovate, crenate, pubescent, not at all fleshy, 

 densely gland-dotted, 1-li in. long. Panicles racemose, of few distant 

 many- flowered globose whorls ; bracts small, foliaceous ; pedicels short. 

 Fruit-calyx \ in. long, pilose ; upper tooth ovate ; 4 lower narrow, 

 acute. Corolla \-\ in. long ; lips nearly or quite as long as the tube. — 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. ;)(;i. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Cameroon Mountain, 2500 7000 ft., Mann, 

 1301! 1988! 



o. C. eduliSy Vatke in Linna^a, xxxvii. 'Mi). A perennial herb, 

 with the root-fibres thickened at the end into oblong tubers. Stems 

 herbaceous, erect, pubescent, 2-;> ft. long, simple or slightly branched. 

 Leaves sessile, oblong, membranous, crenate, slightly pubescent, M-G in. 

 long. Whorls many-flowered, remote, forming a simple terminal race- 

 mose panicle 5-6 in. long ; pedicels pubescent, longer than the calyx. 



