Coleus.] cii. LABiAT/E (baker). 431 



above 2 in. long, narrowed to the base, entire or obscurely toothed, fleshy, 

 glabrescent or pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles racemose, long, 

 simple ; whorls G-10-flowered ; bracts broad, acute, ciliate, projecting 

 beyond the buds ; pedicels J lin. long. Fruit-calyx hispid, J- J in. long; 

 throat villous inside ; upper tooth broadly ovate ; lower lanceolate- 

 subulate. 



XiO\irer Guinea, (lerman South-west Africa : Arabo-laud, Schinz, 56. 



22. C. decumbens, Gih-ke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 2\\. Perennial. 

 Stems stoloniferous, decumbent at the base, pubescent. Leaves small 

 thick, fleshy, petioled, the lower rhomboid-ovate, the upper ovate-lanceo- 

 late, i-1 in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base, deeply crenate-dentate, 

 pubescent on both sides. Panicles racemose, dense, terminal and in the 

 axils of the upper leaves ; flowers few in a whorl ; bracts broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, fleshy, deciduous ; pedicels pubescent, J in. long. Calyx sub- 

 hispid ; throat hairy inside ; upper tooth round, apiculate, \ in. long, 

 the edges scarcely decurrent; the others subequal, lanceolate-deltoid, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube bent down ; lower lip violet, much narrowed to 

 the base ; upper blue outside, white and spotted inside. 



irile Xiand. British East Africa : Duruma district, near Txamtei, Hildehrandt , 

 2320. 



Kflozaml). X>ist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; on the stony ridge of 

 the crater at Lake Chala, 3000 ft., Volkens, 327 ! 



23. C. tetensis. Baker. A perennial herb, with short slender 

 ascending, slightly pubescent stems. Leaves small, fleshy, aromatic, 

 ovate-cuneate, crenate, slightly pubescent. Panicles spicate, simple, 

 1-3 in. long, moderately dense; pedicels obsolete. Fruit-calyx \ in. 

 long, slightly pubescent ; tube campanulate ; upper tooth orbicular, 

 mucronate, longer than the tube ; 4 lower as long, lanceolate. Corolla 

 \ in. long. 



Mozamb. 3>lst» Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near Tete> Kirk ! 



24. C. vestitns, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 224. A perennial 

 herb, with branchlets densely clothed tvith white spreading hairs. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate, 1-1 J in. long, crenate, moderately thick, densely 

 pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles racemose, long, lax ; whorls 5-6- 

 flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; bracts small, ovate, foliaceous. 

 Calyx pubescent, finally i— ^ in. long ; tube campanulate ; teeth as long 

 as the tube; upper ovate, the others lanceolate. Corolla-tube as long 

 as the calyx; upper lip small, orbicular; lower oblong-unguiculate, 

 J-J in. long. Stamens as long as the lower lip. 



wile ]Land. British Somaliland ; Golis range, 3000 ft., Mi^s Edith Cole! 

 Mrs. Lort- Phillips ! 



25. C. speciosuSy Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1899, 64. A perennial 

 herb. Stem covered with white hairs. Leaves distinctly petioled, 

 thick, fleshy, oblong or ovate-oblong, 2-3 in. long including the petiole, 



