428 cii. LABIATE (baker). [Colei(s. 



11. C. Dupuisii, Briquet in Bull. Soc, Bot. Jklg. xxxvii. 70. A 

 branched herb, with shortly pubescent quadrangular stems. Leaves 

 shortly petioled^ elliptic or suborbicular, ^-1 in. long, obtuse, crenate, 

 dull gieen on both surfaces, with scattered crisped hairs above, glandu- 

 lar-pubescent beneath. Panicle racemose, 8-4 in. long, lax except at 

 the apex ; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels -^^ in. long ; bracts oblong. 

 Fruit-calyx -J in. long, pubescent ; teeth as long as the tube ; upper 

 ovate ; lower acuminate. Corolla protruding |-J in. from the throat 

 of the calyx; lower lip ^^-^ in. long. — De Wild, ct Dur. 111. Fl. 

 Congo, i. t. 2G. 



ZiO'wer Guinea. Lower Congo : forest of Mayombe, Dupvift. 



\2. C. Dewevrei, Briquet in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 71. A tall 

 herb, with pubescent branches. Leaves shortly petioled, elliptic or 

 ovate-elliptic, 1-2J in. long, obtuse, regularly and closely crenate, 

 shortly pubescent above, slightly pubescent on the main ribs beneath. 

 Panicle racemose, lax, 4-5 in. long ; whorls many-flowered ; bracts 

 small, ovate, deciduous; pedicels ^V-J in. long. Calyx finally J in. 

 long ; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube ; lower acuminate. Corolla 

 blue, protruding \ from the throat of the calyx ; lower lip \ in. long. 

 Xiower Guinea. Congo, Deicevre, 1092a. 



13. C. assurgenSy Baker. A perennial, with a decumbent base and 

 long ascending simple or branched slightly pubescent fragile stems. 

 Leaves petioled, broad ovate, cienate, membranous, obscurely pubescent, 

 ]|-2 in. long. Panicles racemose, long, lax, axillary and terminal, the 

 end one 4-G in. long; lower whorls 12-15-flowered ; pedicels reaching 

 J-J in. long. Fruit-calyx ^ in. long ; upper lip ovate, shorter than the 

 tube ; 4 lower lanceolate, as long as the upper. Corolla above h in. 

 long ; lower lip as long as the tube. 



Iflle DLanda Abyssinia : Eegemeder, Schimper ! 

 Habit of C. laiifolius, Hochst. 



14. C. Penzigiiy Dammann in Gartenfi. 1892, 525. A perennial 

 herb, with stoutish steme, clothed with fine spreading white hairs. 

 Leaves ovate, crenate, membranous, finely hairy, especially below, nar- 

 rowed suddenly to a petiole which is winged down to the base, the lower 

 8-4 in. long. Whorls simple, lax, 8-flowered, forming a lax long race- 

 mose panicle ; bracts small, deciduous ; pedicels unequal, hairy, the 

 longest \-\ in. long Calyx \ in. long ; tube campanulate, very hairy; 

 teeth deltoid, longer than the tube, the two lateral ones smaller than 

 the others. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx ; lower lip deeply 

 cymbiform, bright lilac, \ in. long. Stamens included in the low^er lip. 

 — Gard. Chron. xiv. (1893) 61G ; Notizb. Konig. bot. Gart. Berlin, 

 1895, 7. 



wile Xiand. Eritrea: Chagali, 3200 ft, Schweinfurth <Sf Riva, 1070 1 Acrur, 

 6000 ft., Schweinfurth ^ Riva, 1230 ! cultivated specimen, Penzig ! 

 Described from a plant that ilowered at Kew in November 1893. 



