434 cii. LABiAT.E (baker). [Coleus. 



acuminate. Corolla hairy ; tube longer than the flower-calyx ; upper 

 lip recurved ; lower navicular, J-J in. long. Stamens as long as or 

 longer than the lower lip of the corolla. 



Xlle land. British Somalilaml : Waggar Mountains, Mrs. Lort-Fhillips. 



34. C. amboinicuSy Lour., var. violaceus, Gilrke in Evgl. Jahrh. 

 xix. 210. Stems shrubby at the base ; branches thick, fleshy, pubescent. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, 1-2 in. long, rounded at the base, 

 crenate, pubescent on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, long, lax, 

 simple ; whorls many-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts ovate, acuminate. 

 Calyx small, pubescent, campanulate, scarcely accrescent ; upper tooth 

 ovate-oblong, the others setaceous. Corolla violet or blue-violtt, ^ in. 

 long. — C. aromaticuSy Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 72 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1520 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 625 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 865. 



JiO^rer Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Welwitsch, 5556 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; on the ridge of the 

 crater at Lake Chahi, 3000 ft., VolJcens, 321 ! Usambara ; at the foot of Rhinoceros 

 Hill, by the ford of the Pangani, 2600 ft., Volkens, 487. 



Also Tropical Asia. 



35. C. umbrosus, Vatke in Liniuea, xliii. 91. A shrub, with 

 woody stems and pubescent branchlets. Leaves petioled, ovate, acute, 

 crenate, membranous, nearly glabrous, 2-3 in. long. Panicle racemose, 

 moderately dense, the end branch 5-6 in. long ; whorls few-flowered ; 

 pedicels very short. Fruit-calyx J in. long; tube curved, campanu- 

 late, very gibbous on the lower side, pubescent, strongly ribbed ; upper 

 tooth ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; 4 lower teeth large linear- 

 subulate cusps. Corolla nearly 1 in. long ; lower lip deeply concave, as 

 long as the tube. — Dew^vre in Comptes rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxiii. 105. 



M'ile Iiand. Hritish East Africa : Taita ; Ndara, Hildehrandt, 2424, and at 

 Mwatate, 2000 ft., Johnston ! Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildehrandt, 2743 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Kwa Mshuza, Hoist, 9159 ! 

 Kilimanjaro ; at Kwa Ngowe, Volkens, 357 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; 

 Blantyre, Descamps. 



36. C. Mahoniiy Baker. A shrub with finely pubescent slender 

 branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate, 2-3 in. long, acute, 

 cuneate at the base, distinctly crenate, membranous, green and nearly 

 glabrous above, paler and finely pubescent beneath. Inflorescence i-ace- 

 mose, simple, lax ; whorls 3-4-flowered ; pedicels \-^ in. long ; bracts 

 foliaceous, as long as the pedicels. Calyx \ in. long, nearly glabrous ; 

 tube campanulate; teeth lanceolate, unequal, as long as the tube. 

 Corolla lilac, J in. long ; tube cylindrical ; lips much shorter than the 

 tube. Stamens shortly exserted. 



Mozamb. Blst. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Mahon ! 

 Described from a living plant raised from seeds sent by Mr". J. Mahon, which 

 flowered at Kew in December, 1899. 



37. C. maranguensis, Giirke in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 216. A shrub, 

 with hairy branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, membranous^ suborbicular 



